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Show Quotation Shows Lincoln Believed In Heavy Mining Of Both Gold and Silver The following quotation, taken from "Abe Lincoln's Yams and Stories," was submitted to the Pyramid Pyr-amid by a reader, and is reprinted because it shows how the Emancipator Eman-cipator felt on the subject of gold and silver mining. In the words of the person who submitted the passage pas-sage for publication, the words are "as true now as then." The passage loliows: On April 14th, 1865, a few hours previous to his assassination, President Pres-ident Lincoln cent a message by Congressman Schuyler Colfax, Vice President during Grant's first term to the miners In the Rocky Mountains Mount-ains and the region bounded by the Pacific Ocean In which ne said: "Now that the Rebellion is overthrown, over-thrown, and we know pretty nearly near-ly the amount of our national debt, the more gold and silver we mine we make the payment of that debt so much easier. "Now I am gaing to encourage that in every possible way. We shall have hundreds of thousands of disbanded sodiere, and many have feared that their return home in such great numbers might paralyze para-lyze industry by furnishing suddenly sudden-ly a greater supply of labor than twe will be demand for. I am go ing to try to attract them to the hidden wealth of our mountain ranges, where there Is room enough for all. Immigration, which even the war has not stopped, will land upon our shores hundreds of thousands thou-sands more per year from overcrowded over-crowded Europe. I intend to point them to the gold and silver that wait for them in the west. "Tell the miners for me that l shall promote their Interests to the utmost of my ability because their prosperity is the prosperity of the nation. And." said he. his eye kindling kind-ling with enthusiasm, 'we shau prove in a very few years, that we are indeed the treasury of the world." |