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may come from the great atrocities committed in the reign of 

 wars ; but in neither case will the return justify the cost of the 

 outlay. The production of a few refined, learned, effeminate, 

 pusillanimous tools of the dominant tyranny, fit only the more 

 adroitly to defend and uphold their ill-gotten power, and play 

 the traitor and the knave to the rest of the race, will hardly 

 compensate for the necessary cost of the ignorance, bigotry po- 

 litical and partizan rancor, and squallid poverty necessarily in- 

 fused in the process, over all orders below. 



Unhappily, over most lands, the combined reign of war and 

 of WORDS, is still dominant. That is, the governing powers of 

 society still subsists by force and by fraud. Hence, the constant 

 necessity of a standing army of scientific murderers to do their 

 fighting, and the equal necessity of a still greater army of learn- 

 ed sophists and liars to do their talking, to invent the sophisms, 

 reiterate and embellish, and give power and currency to the lies 

 and delusions upon which their institutions are based ; and of 

 all the expenditures in universities, benefices, institutions, and 

 ordinances through which such a power is trained, paid and pro- 

 duced. A people whose sole end is to live by work, and not by 

 force or fraud, needs no marshalled array but the masses. May 

 we not hope that we Americans have approximated to this glo- 

 rious condition ? Do we not see around us indications that our 

 American destiny, is a destiny not of war or of words, but of 

 work ; and do we not see hopeful tendencies to this glorious re- 

 sult, even in the old world ? What means all this mighty array 

 of steamboats and steamships, those colossal shuttles of com- 

 merce, shooting across every ocean and every sea ? and this iron 

 warp and woof of railroads, and telegraphic wires spreading its 

 net- work over every land ? What means these annual muster- 

 ings of our great standing armies of the plow, the anvil, and 

 the loom ? these modern tournaments of labor, in which are dis- 

 played the implements and prowess of our warfare ; the fruit 

 offerings, the field offerings, and the fat offerings of our indus- 

 trial enterprise. 



The new reign of labor and of art on this American conti- 

 nent. What wonderful beauty, and order, and strength, and 



