George Boutwell: “The country has grown towards Hamilton and away from Jefferson.”

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

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.

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

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.