That ratification involved the continuance of the war. which had then proceeded no further than an unauthorized outbreak of hostilities and an assumption of sovereignty over an unwilling peopleto be purchased by the United Statesthe cause of a years war and all the disasters and melancholy history of the last twelve months. I do not underrate the importance of this issue. It is greater than parties. greater than administrations. greater than the happiness or prosperity of a single generation. But in pleading for justice to these dusky millions of distant Asiatics. I can not forget 10.000.000 American citizens here at home. to whom neither citizenship nor manhood is hereafter to be worth having unless the Republican party stand by them. Who can fail to read the signs of the times?
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