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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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>. *ttl Amerira—(Sumrirtan nf t\p itorttTa ifear? cause of Peace, so that our resources may be used for the upbuilding ofthe Nation and not the destruction of its glorious opportunity. The great American Republic has already achieved the highest positionamong the nations of the earth; it is destined to play the star part on thestage of diplomacy in future time. In but a century the United States havecome to the front by leaps and bounds, from an agricultural to an industrialand now to a commercial nation. The period of agriculture covered thetime between the Revolution and the Civil War. The industrial periodreaches from the Civil War to the Spanish-American War, and the com-mercial period from that war to the present time. All the necessary funda-mentals for the building up of a strong nation have been gone throughin but a century and a quarter, and with the remarkable strides that thisNation has made in the past century, with its practically untouched andboundless resources, wh

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