...Democracy in America By Alexis de Tocqueville Translator – Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...sted with the grace of poetry, and the driest statistics with the charm of romance. Western emigration seemed commonplace and prosaic till M. de Tocqu... ...the destruction of their coun- try; and they braved death like the ancient Romans when their capital was sacked by the Gauls. Further on, p. 150, he t... ... most due; so also some rays of glory may reach the names of those blessed Saints that were the main instruments and the beginning of this happy enter... ... State Papers,” vol. i. p. 630. ****By the penal law of Massachusetts, any Catholic priest who should set foot in the colony after having been once dr... ...s truth is exemplified by the condition of Mexico at the present time. The Mexicans were desirous of establishing a federal system, and they took the ... ...e unable to create or to introduce the spirit and the sense which *See the Mexican Constitution of 1824. 190 Democracy in America give it life. They ... ...en who professed a democratic and republican Christianity – Arrival of the Catholics – For what reason the Catholics form the most democratic and the ... ...properly en- hanced the importance of the divine agents. The homage due to saints and angels became an almost idolatrous wor- ship amongst the majorit...