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?
Boutwell argues for the freedom of the colored races in the Philippines, drawing a parallel to the rights of African Americans.
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