We held the Philippines first by the same right by which we held our own original thirteen States,--the oldest and firmest of all rights, the right by which nearly every great nation holds the bulk of its territory,--the right of conquest.
Reid claims that the U.S. held the Philippines by the right of conquest, similar to its original states.
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