George Boutwell: “It is a regulator of business rather than an active instrument for the transaction of business.”

President McKinley and his supporters demand subserviency of all who are not within the lines of the American seas.

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

Of all the eminent men that you have sent forth into the service of the State and the country, he must be accounted the chief, when we consider the value of his contribution, historically, and on the side of freedom and civilization.

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…