Haym Salomon - The Financier of the Revolution; An Unwritten Chapter in American History #227672

It is a great pleasure for me to be here to-night and to hear the eloquent tribute of the orator, Dr. Peters, to what the Jew has done in American history. One of the privileges of the President of the United States is to attend, and to feel at home at, the religious services of every denomination that is fostered under the flag, no matter what his own church. It is the duty of the President of the United States, in so far as he may, to testify to his interest in every religion in order that it may be understood of all men that the absence from the Constitution of the United States of any recognition of a state church gives no right to any man to infer that the government is against the churches. On the contrary, the government is for all the churches, and it eliminates a state church in order that it may embrace all and support all and pro teet all without guiding or restricting any.