"THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THE TREASURY OF THE WORLD."
As Schuyler Colfax was going West, Lincoln, in bidding him the last farewell, said foresightedly:
"I have very large ideas of the mineral wealth of our nation. Now that the Rebellion is overthrown, and we know pretty nearly the amount of our national debt, the more gold and silver we mine, we make the payment of that debt the easier. Tell the miners from me that I shall promote their interests to the best of my ability because their prosperity is the prosperity of the nation; and we shall prove in a few years that we are the treasury of the world."