04/02/1899
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"Answering your message of December 14, the President directs that you send necessary troops to Iloilo to preserve the peace and protect life and property."
"The war brought us together; its settlement will keep us together."
"Reunited—one country again and one country forever!"
"Sectional lines no longer mar the map of the United States."