You, people of the North, who have been victorious upon the whole through three years of war--you are to disgrace your ancestry--you are to render yourselves infamous in all future time, by furling your flag and submitting anew to rebel authority upon this continent.
Boutwell condemns the idea of the North submitting to Southern authority after their victory in the Civil War.
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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 the amendment of 1865 freedom and equality in government were guaranteed to all and especially to the negro race in America.
They assert supreme authority over their fellow-men for an indefinite period of time, and they promise therewith good government.
Shall the avoidance of the Amendment in States of this Union be tendered as a reason for a denial of equality and the right of self-government in the Philippine Islands?
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