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A revival of shipbuilding, and particularly of iron steamship building, is of vast importance to our national prosperity.
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Grant highlights the importance of reviving shipbuilding, especially iron steamships, for national prosperity.
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It is not probable that public affairs will ever again receive attention from me further than as a citizen of the Republic, always taking a deep interest in the honor, integrity, and prosperity of the whole land.
The compulsory support of the free school and the disfranchisement of all who can not read and write the English language, after a fixed probation, would meet my hearty approval.
Being a part of the United States, commerce between the island and mainland would be free.
Foreigners coming to this country to become citizens, who are educated in their own language, should acquire the requisite knowledge of ours during the necessary residence to obtain naturalization.
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