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Identifier: journalofamerica00mill (find matches)
Title: The journal of American history
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Americana Antiques
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Associated Publishers of American Records
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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o realize the meaning and value of these minerals, coal andiron: they are the real royal metals, or, in other words, they are the realsources of power. It is to these that Great Britain owes her pre-eminent posi-tion. They gave her the world, and are now giving the world to the UnitedStates. Behind Gibraltar, the Suez, the islands of the Mediterranean, India,Australia, Canada, and the mighty places of the world upon which her gunshave been erected, are the coal and iron mines of England, Scotland andWales. Behind the United States success at home and abroad are the coaland iron mines of our country, which are forces and factors that makeevery possibility a marvelous opportunity of manifest destiny. The meaning of this vast wealth, both at hand and in reserve, isevident. It creates new and vast responsibilities. While it gives us power,it gives responsibilities. To be true to them all, to live up to the past, andto be as virtuous as our fathers, we shall have to work ceaselessly in the
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