George Boutwell: “Does anybody contemplate such a qualification to the elective franchise, in the case of black people or white?”

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?

By the Ordinance of 1787, freedom and full right to self-government were made secure to the coming millions who were to occupy the States northwest of the River Ohio.

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.