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millions have increased to more than thirty millions, and the 

 ratio of increase is undiminished. The West has become 

 settled. It wants and must have new staples from the teem 

 ing" soil, new employments for labor, and cannot afford to 

 let any source of wealth go unimproved. 



" Besides, the war has disturbed the routine into which we 

 had fallen, imposed new burdens and new duties upon us, 

 and has pointed significantly to the controlling duty which 

 devolves upon us to strive to render the country independent 

 of foreign supplies for those great articles of consumption 

 which form the necessities of life. If the war has taxed our 

 means, it has aroused our energies ; if it has disturbed our 

 peaceful pursuits, it has developed our strength ; if it has 

 tried our system of government, it has shown us that we have 

 unequalled elements of greatness. 



" The exigencies of the war have aroused the nation to an 

 attentive consideration of everything that will make for the 

 common advantage ; and new employments are opened be 

 fore us for our abundant land, capital, and men. Situated 

 midway between the continents of the old world, in temper 

 ate latitudes, with every variety of soil, and land sufficient for 

 the sustenance of one half the estimated population of the 

 globe, there is nothing to hinder us from producing, in the 

 most profuse abundance, everything which is produced in 

 the same zone in other lands." 



