If a guaranty to chaotic tribes of the civil rights secured by the American Constitution does prove to be an incident springing from the discharge of the duty that has rested upon us from the moment we drove Spain out, is that a result so objectionable as to warrant us in abandoning our duty?
Reid discusses the implications of guaranteeing civil rights to chaotic tribes as a duty following the expulsion of Spain.
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Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.
Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.
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