378 WISCONSIN AGRICULTUEE. 



The chief emblems upon the great seal of your state, I per- 

 ceive are the savage, the steamboat, and the plow — indicative of 

 its past, its present, and its future. Its motto is " civilitas 

 SUCCESsiT BARBARUM," all of which means that the barbarian 

 has here given place to the man of work and of art. A few 

 years since they were the only owners of this beautiful soil. 

 Now their name and their race are alike forgotten and unknown, 

 while we, as the congregated representatives of a new race, here 

 gather upon their graves, with our myriad arts and heaven-born 

 hopes, the trophies of a new age and a new world, turning their 

 wilderness of war into a paradise of peace, and with the magic 

 of our industrial skill, transmuting their gala-shows of carnage 

 and of blood, into this fairy scene, this festal display of all that 

 enriches and ennobles man here on earth. So perishes forever 

 more the reign of barbarism and of war. So lives ever more, 

 with its magic power, its divine skill, its trophies of good, its 

 emblazooing of art, the everlasting reign of labor and of love. 

 Intermediate between these, and subservient to them, lies the 

 REIGN OF "WORDS. On the one hand the literatures, logics, log- 

 omachies, cantings, creeds, dogmas, and boastful assumptions of 

 little souls, by fraud or violence raised to great power, subsist- 

 ing and perishing with the reign of war ; followed by the light 

 and truth of great souls, walking amid perils and martyrdoms, 

 ushering in, illuminating, fostering and crowning the final and 

 glorious reign of work. 



There are but three possible modes of subsistence, either for 

 individuals, communities or nations of men : 



I. By plunder. 



II. By fraud. 



III. By labor. 



War is the instrument of the first ; words, deceits, of the se- 

 cond ; skill and industry of the last. Let us look for a moment 

 at the relations, peculiarities and results of each of these domi- 

 nant forces in the history of the world. 



Man was not made for war, or for words, but for work, as the 

 great final end of his being. War and words are admissible 

 only as a means to an end, for the defense of those rights, and 



