But we know that their grievances differ only in kind, not in degree, from those of Cuba; and having once freed them from the Spanish yoke, we cannot honorably require them to go back under it again.
He argues that the grievances of the Philippines are similar to those of Cuba, making it dishonorable to return them to Spanish rule.
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