Answering your message of December 14, the President directs that you send necessary troops to Iloilo to preserve the peace and protect life...
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation, substituting the mild sway of justice and right for arbitrary rule.
All persons who, either by active aid or by honest submission, co-operate with the Government of the United States to give effect to these b...
Reunited—one country again and one country forever!
The war brought us together; its settlement will keep us together.
A nation which cares for its disabled soldiers as we have always done will never lack defenders.
Sectional feeling no longer holds back the love we bear each other.
Sectional lines no longer mar the map of the United States.
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.
What a glorious future awaits us if unitedly, wisely, and bravely we face the new problems now pressing upon us, determined to solve them fo...
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.
Fraternity is the national anthem, sung by a chorus of forty-five States and our Territories at home and beyond the seas.
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 ...
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 ...
Havana shall be the chief port of entry.
The Secretary of War shall appoint such civilian deputy collectors, inspectors, and other employees as may be found necessary.
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 h...
