George Boutwell: “I am not willing knowingly to do anyone injustice as I now am led to believe I may have done in the case of General…”

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?

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.

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

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.