07/23/2013
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"One thing they told me was to stay out of the South."
"For today our whole economy turns and depends upon the commerce of the world through such ports as this."
"The Louisiana Purchase effectively doubled the area of our young nation, brought this country unimagined wealth, and gave us strength and international influence beyond the dreams of our nation's foun..."
"And most of it, I suppose, was good."