George Boutwell: “A wise man will strive to so conduct affairs as to merit that approval.”

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.

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

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.