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The treaty did not make them citizens of the United States at all; and they never will be, unless you neglect your Congress.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid clarifies that the treaty does not grant Filipinos U.S. citizenship without Congressional action.
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And it is both natural and right that colored Americans, entitled to the rights of citizens, should claim their exercise.
They should persist in this claim respectfully, but firmly, taking care to bring no discredit upon it by their own action.
They should strive for distinction by economy, by industry, by sobriety, by patient perseverance in well-doing, by constant improvement of religious instruction, and by the constant practice of Christian virtues.
Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.