United States Congress (1848) ratified the peace treaty with Mexico which ended the Mexican War and brought the territories of California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming, into the Union.
The treaty began:
<In the Name of Almighty God:
The United States and the United Mexican States animated by a sincere desire to put an end to the calamities of the war....who, after a reciprocal communication of their respective full powers, have, under the protection of Almighty God, the Author of Peace, arranged, agreed upon, and signed the following: Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits, and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic....
If (which is not to be expected, and which God forbid) war should unhappily break out between the two republics, they do now, with a view to such calamity, solemnly pledge themselves to each other and to the world to observe the following rules....
All churches, hospitals, schools, colleges, libraries, and other establishments for charitable and beneficent purposes, shall be respected, and all persons connected with the same protected in the discharge of their duties, and the pursuit of their vocations....
Done in quintuplicate, at the city of Guadalupe Hidalgo, on the second day of February, in the year of the Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty- eight.> 1848US001
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Endnotes:
1848US001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). United States Congress, 1848, Peace Treaty with Mexico which ended the Mexican War; concluded at Guadalupe Hidalgo, February 2, 1848; ratified with amendments by U.S. Senate, March 10, 1848; ratified by President, March 16, 1848; ratifications exchanged at Queretaro, May 30, 1848; proclaimed July 4, 1848. Charles W. Eliot, LL.D., ed., American Historical Documents 1000-1904 (New York: P.F. Collier & Son Company, The Harvard Classics, 1910), Vol. 43, pp. 309-326.