The Peril of the Republic of the United States of America - Percy T. Magan

the Congress of the United States) to the enjoyment
of all the rights of citizens of the United States,
according to the principles of the Constitution, and
in the meantime shall be maintained and protected
in the free enjoyment of their liberty and property,
and secured in the free exercise of their religion
without restriction.”[27]
This article was also adopted as an article of the
Gadsden treaty. And again in the Alaskan treaty it
was provided that “the inhabitants ... shall be
admitted to the enjoyment of all the rights,
advantages, and immunities of citizens of the
United States.”
This brings us down to the present time and to
the acquisition just recently made. Now all these
treaties prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that,
until within the last few months, at most, this
nation was utterly opposed to the colonial policy,
that we considered it subversive of our
fundamental principles, and that in each and every
case where territory was acquired, it was stipulated
in clear and distinct language that such territory
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