George Boutwell: “He was a great figure in the war against slavery and as a great figure in that war he should ever remain.”

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

Shall your representative stand for Nathan Dane and Abraham Lincoln and Freedom, or for William McKinley and Despotism?

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.

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?