And when the constitutional objections are surmounted, those as to policy are not likely to lead the American people to recall their soldiers from the fields on which the Filipinos attacked them, or abandon the sovereignty which Spain ceded.
Reid suggests that American public sentiment will not lead to withdrawing troops from conflict zones despite constitutional debates.
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