The war brought us together; its settlement will keep us together.

The old flag again waves over us in peace, with new glories which your sons and ours have this year added to its sacred folds.

The national cemeteries for those who fell in battle are proof that the dead as well as the living have our love.

The Union is once more the common altar of our love and loyalty, our devotion and sacrifice.

Sectional lines no longer mar the map of the United States.

What a glorious future awaits us if unitedly, wisely, and bravely we face the new problems now pressing upon us, determined to solve them for right and humanity!

Fraternity is the national anthem, sung by a chorus of forty-five States and our Territories at home and beyond the seas.

Sectional feeling no longer holds back the love we bear each other.

A nation which cares for its disabled soldiers as we have always done will never lack defenders.

There shall be appointed an auditor, who shall be stationed at the chief port, whose duty it shall be to examine all entries of merchandise and if found correct to certify to them.

The Secretary of War shall appoint such civilian deputy collectors, inspectors, and other employees as may be found necessary.

Havana shall be the chief port of entry.

He shall make weekly reports to the collector of customs of the islands at the chief port of all transactions at the subport over which he has jurisdiction, with copies of all entries of merchandise, duly certified.

All questions arising in the administration of customs in the islands shall be referred to the collector of the islands at the chief port for decision, from which there shall be no appeal.

An officer of the Army shall be assigned to such port, who shall be the collector of customs of the islands and of the chief port and shall have general jurisdiction over the collection of customs in the islands.

To the Congress of the United States: I transmit herewith, for the information of the Congress, the report of the Hawaiian Commission appointed in pursuance of the 'Joint resolution to provide for annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the…

The fullest suggestions are invited.

When these islands shall be ceded to us, it is his desire that peace and tranquillity shall be restored and as kind and beneficent a government as possible given to the people, that they may be encouraged in their industries and made…