George Boutwell: “He was so great that it was not a humiliation to acknowledge a change in opinion, or to admit an error in policy or…”

By the amendment of 1865 freedom and equality in government were guaranteed to all and especially to the negro race in America.

Here are the assertion of power and the promise of goodness that have attended the origin and movement of every despotism that has risen to curse mankind.

If the negroes in America are entitled to freedom from a state of subserviency, are not the colored races in the Philippines entitled to freedom, and that whether they are under the Constitution or beyond its jurisdiction?

By repeated decisions the Supreme Court has held that the stipulations and terms of the ordinance remained in force after the adoption of the Constitution, unless a conflict should appear, and in such a case the ordinance would yield to…