we know pretty nearly the amount of our national debt, the more gold and silver we mine, we make the payment of that debt so much the easier. Now, I am going to encourage that in every possible way. We shall have hundred of thousands of disbanded soldiers, and many have feared that their return home in such great numbers might paralyze industry, by furnishing, suddenly, a greater supply of labor than there will be a demand for. I am going 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 more per year from overcrowded Europe. I intend to point them to the gold and silver that wait for them in the west. Tell the miners for 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. IN CARRIAGE GOING TO THEATER. LAST WRITTEN WORDS. Allow Mr. Ashmun and friend to come to me at 9 o'clock A. M. to-morrow, April 15, 1865. A. LINCOLN. FUNERAL HYMN. Rest, noble martyr; rest in peace; Rest with the true and brave, Who, like thee, fell in freedom's cause, 426 ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S PEN AND VOICE. Thy name shall live while time endures, "He saved his country from its foes, These deeds shall be thy monument, This consecrated spot shall be, And Freedom's sons of every race, O God! before whom we, in tears, Grant that the cause for which he died, THE END, INDEX. Address to Committee notifying him of his First Nomina- tion to the Presidency, May 18, 1860..... PAGE 13 18 19 Address at Springfield, Ill., February 11, 1861........... 22 Address at Columbus, O., February 13, 1861.............. 25 Address at Pittsburg, Pa., February 15, 1861.... 27 Address at Albany, N. Y., February 18, 181.., 31 34 34 Address at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., February 19, 1861............. 35 36 36 37 39 41 42 Address at Serenade, Washington, D. C., February 28, 1861.. 47 61 69 Address to Baltimore Committee, April 28, 1861....................... ...... 69 States, July, 1862.......... .... 171 Address at a Union Meeting in Washington, August 6, 1862. 184 186 Address Respecting the Issue of Emancipation Proclama- mation, September 13, 1862........ 196 |