George Boutwell: “This fact furnishes a pretext for efforts to make money while in the public service.”

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.

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

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.

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