ssdevilfish
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- Jan 8, 2014
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" I have very large ideas of the mineral wealth of our Nation. I believe it practically inexhaustible. It abounds all over the western country , from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, and it's development has scarcely commenced .... Immigration , which even the war had not stopped ,will land upon our shores hundreds of thousands more per year from overcrowded Europe. I intend to point them West. Tell the miners from me, that I shall promote their interests to the utmost of my ability ; because their prosperity is the prosperity of the Nation, and we shall prove in a very few years that we are indeed the treasury of the world. ". President Lincoln died hours later at Fords Theatre.
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