William McKinley: “The native constabulary will, so far as may be practicable, be preserved.”

The prophets of evil were not the builders of the Republic.

It is hereby ordered that the unsurveyed portion of Eliza Island and Billingham Bay in section five (5), township thirty-six (36) north, range two (2) East Willamette meridian, Washington be, and it is hereby reserved for light-house…

Then I felt constrained to convene the Congress in extraordinary session to devise revenues to pay the ordinary expenses of the Government.

We will not leave the destiny of the loyal millions the islands to the disloyal thousands who are in rebellion against the United States.