In 1872. when our party adopted its platform in Philadelphia. it recited thatThe recent amendments to the National Constitution should be cordially sustained because they are right. not merely tolerated because they are law. and should be carried out according to their spirit by appropriate legislation. That was a reference to the amendments incorporated in the Constitution by the sovereign peopleand there is no sovereign in this land. save the peoplein 1865. 1868. and 1870. It was a reference to the provision which made every nativeborn and naturalized person a citizen. not only of the State where he resides. but of the United States. Even as the Apostle Paul could humbly boast to his captors that he was a Roman citizen. so the humblest person in this land who was subject to its jurisdiction could humbly. yet proudly. boast that he was a citizen of the United States. But he could make a greater claim.
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