“ The assumption that the President had the right to give away territory that had become not his, but his country's, by the secure title of conquest, and that it was his duty so to give it away, even though by so doing he doomed a great part of its people to the horrors of butchery and violence and looting, is not one that rational and patriotic Americans will ever entertain or countenance. ”

“ Was a wanton and ruthless insult thrown in the face of the people who had acted as our allies against a “common enemy” and who aspired to be free, and it was at the same time a barefaced usurpation of power which only an unscrupulous partisan spirit would overlook or excuse. ”

“ The counter-assumption is that so far from being guilty of an “infamy,” the Administration performed in an honorable and humane manner its plain duty. That assumption is based upon the fact that, according to the testimony of Admiral Dewey, Gen. Otis, and the President, no pledge or promise of any kind was made to the Filipinos as a condition of their assistance, nor were the nationalist aspirations of Aguinaldo and his following ever recognized or encouraged by any official word or act whatsoever. ”