They resisted adroit Spanish efforts for special privileges and guaranties for their established church, and pledged the United States to absolute freedom in the exercise of their religion for all these recent Spanish subjects--pagan, Mohammedan, Confucian, or Christian.
Reid discusses the commitment to religious freedom for inhabitants of newly acquired territories, regardless of their faith.
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