George Boutwell: “The President is subjecting ten million people to involuntary subserviency under his rule.”

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.

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…

They assert supreme authority over their fellow-men for an indefinite period of time, and they promise therewith good government.

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