The treaty of Paris does not provide that the inhabitants of the territories ceded by Spain shall at any time or in any contingency be made citizens of the United States. or that their civil rights are to bo measured by the Federal Constitution. Those rights are committed to the determination of Congress. The Asiatic countries ceded by Spain can not from the nature of things ba incorporated into onr Union. Their people can not be admitted to the rights of citizenship. We have. therefore. the alternatives either to refuse the performance of the duty which. in the estimation of the civilized world. we assumed by the acceptance of the cession. or else courageously to set about the tash bf giving to these people the best government they are capable of administering.