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William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 9: Greeley's presidential campaign-his death (search)
r, minerals, and water-power fairly entitles you to a population of five millions before the close of this century. Consider that the natural highway of empire — the shortest and easiest route from the Atlantic to the heart of the great valley-lies up the James River and down the Kanawha, and that this city, with its millpower superior to any in our country but that of St. Anthony's Falls on the Mississippi, ought to insure you a speedy development of manufactures surpassing any Lowell or Lawrence, with a population of at least half a million before the close of this century. Greeley was not a good prophet. The population of Virginia in 1900 was 1,854,184, and of Richmond 85,050. In his autobiography he said, I predict that California will have 3,000,000 of people in 1900 and Oregon at least 1,000,000. The population of California in 1900 was 1,485,053, and of Oregon 413,536. I exhort you, then, Republicans and Conservatives, whites and blacks, to bury the dead past in mutual a