To the Senate of the United States: I transmit to the Senate, for consideration with a view to ratification, a treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation between the United States of America and the Republic of Honduras, signed by their respective plenipotentiaries at Comayagua on the 4th of July (1864) last.
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To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan, is our duty.
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
I believe that it is not only possible, but in fact easier, to do this without deciding or even considering whether these States have ever been out of the Union, than with it.
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