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Updated: May 22, 2025

"When the traveler approaches the City of Magnificent Distances," it says, "the seat of what is destined to be the greatest and most beneficent power on earth, the first object that will strike his eye will be the figure of Liberty surmounting the Capitol; not white, symbolizing but one race, nor black, typifying another, but a statue representing the composite race, whose sway will extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, from the Equator to the North Pole the Miscegens of the Future."

P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum - The Humbugs of the World: An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries,: Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages