Weekly Trinity journal., 1865-06-24
From the Springfield Mass Republican
Mr.. Lincoln and Our Mineral Wealth.
Speaker Collars Overland Trip.

Speaker CoIfa1's Overland Trip.
Mr.. Lincoln comprehensive thought and prac-
teal wisdom were qualities that will grow more
and more conspicuous the reconstruction of
the Union and the future development of the ma
ton S wealth Justify his policies and illuminate
his record. The giving away of the Southern
armies, the almost universal acquiescence of the
Southern people in the national authority and
unity their readiness to accept the new order of
things ana rurn The best of their defeat, all goes
to show that he forecast the future nettci than
most of our Northern leaders, and justihes his
enicnt disposition towards our defeated and ac-
auescng brethren few of the bitter leaders,
the fathers of the exploded plot for the destruc
ton of the Union, of course cannot live among
us. Their own people would not permit them to
remain. They must flee the country. or if caught
made a historical example Of on the gbhet or
be forever expatriated. But the great body Of
the South soldiers and civilians, will accept
peace in the right spirit, and so accepting will
have il granted to them. And amid the new
activities and industries of the South, its rapidly
developing population and wealth. its social,
material and political revolution, all this bloody
strife with all its bitterness will to be
ANYTHING more than historical fact Mr. Lin
coin saw this and he was acting on it. The
country will also soon sec it, and act upon it
His policy will be perpetuatcd, because it is the
/ policy of common sense, of commerce, of Chris
tianity.
In other ways. too his mind took a strong and
clear view Of the future, of the opportunities of
the nation, and of the responsibilities of the
Government. There fine illustration of
this in his conversation with Speaker Coltax on
that very last day of his memorable life Alb
sorbcd as he would seem necessarily to be that
day in the then just assured peace, and in the
policies of peace just inauguratcd in Cabinet
meeting fresh from Richmond, and all the po-
litcal and military experiences associated with
our possession of the rebel capital his mind
across the continent, and took strong and prac
teal view Of the great national interests asso-
cated with the mining wealth of Colorado, Ne
vada Montana, California Idaho and Oregon
- am glad you are going thither, said he to
Mr.. Colfax. " Visit all the mining regions-tell
the miners have not forgotten them nor their
intercsts-tell them | look to them to redeem
this nation from its great debt-tell them the
Government will do all it can TO hasten the de-
veopment of the vast wealth hid in their noun
tain sides and along their valleys. shall en-
/ courage the discharged soldiers to 90 there.
shall direct emigration thther. There is wealth
there for individual and nation. Co. he con-
Guided, q and do not forget to tell the miners
we have them in mind, and arc ut work for them.
In these few words he struck the key note of
one of the chief features in the dawning era of
growth and wealth for the nation. The United
States are entering upon career of prosperity
uncxampled in their own if not in the worlds
history. The agricultural regeneration and de-
veopment of the South, with its cotton, sugar,
rice and corn, many times multiplied by skillful
and free labor, and machinery and disseminated
capital and the working of the gold and silver
and quicksilver mines of the far West through
generous flow of Eastern capital, labor, machin-
cry and skill will rival each other in contributing
to the national riches. Emigrants will flow in
from Europe never before money will come
A. 4 Il
INFLATED by the will be turned to agriculture,
manufactures and mining and the nation will
move onward with rapid strides towards n des-
tiny of wealth and power. of civilization and
Christianity, such as history never yet chroni-
cled
Already do we see the movements in all direc-
tions. The steamers for California 90 crowded ::
the overland stages never had such patronage
now the emigrant trains making up for the
summer trip across the plains of unexampled
promise and more significant still, though less
obtrusive, material and capital from the East are
flowing into the mining regions as in previous
season. These are what is chiefly wanted for
profitable mining-machinery and capital, and
more of both are likely to be directed to Nevada
Idaho. Montana and California in the coming six
months than in all time before since the discovery
of the wealth of minerals in those States and
territories. There is scarcely n limit to the
profit to be returned from the intelligent exercise
| of these two weapons-machnery and capital
in changing the raw rock into absolute coin.
One hundred, two hundred, even five hundred
per cent. are realized from the gold and silver
minesfn Nevada and California, where these in
strumentalities have been wisely directed. The
fortunes of petroleum slight compared to that
obtainable from these more real and inexhaust-
ible treasures.
These circumstances, the condition OF the
| country. the attention of the East to the
West. the dying message as it were of Mr. Lin
coin TO the mining populations lying between inc
Mississippi river and the Pacific ocean, all unite
to give signcaficance and interest to Mr.. Speaker
Colfax's proposed excursion this Summer. Orig
inallv planned a simple, private vacation trip,
it has thus become almost public mission As
one of highest and most popular officers OF the
Government-but a single remove from tempo
rary Presidency eyen-he goes from the East to
the West, carrying messages of love and patriot
ISM and creating and fastening new bonds of
union of interest and of affection, between the
two great sections. Approaching this view Of
the value of his excursion to the national life
and prosperity. looking upon it as something to
awaken new ties between Eastern capital and
Western labor, aud stimulus to the loyalty and