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The Roman Poet, alludintr to those who wore trained to contend in the 

 Olympic Games, admonishes the emulous youth of his time — 



" Qui studet optatam cursu coutingere metam 

 Multura tulit fecitque piier, sudavit et alsit 

 Abstinuit venere et viuo." — 



And the great Apostle of the Gentiles, borrowing an illustration from 

 the same subject, appeals to the Corinthians, as knowing, " that every 

 man who striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things." 



The greatest General of the past age, perhaps the greatest genius of 

 any age, Xapoleon Bonaparte, was as temperate in living as he was bold 

 in desion, and resistless in execution. 



But why appeal to the master-spirits of the world for illustration of a 

 principle, which is as universal in application as it is undeniable in utility. 

 Happily the history of our Agricultural population has exemplified the 

 truth, that the virtues are kindred, and that where prudence, economy 

 and industry prevail, simplicity and purity in habits, and, above all, tem- 

 perance in the use of intoxicating drinks, has been found to prevail. Our 

 Agricultural communities, generally, have honored and benefitted them- 

 selves by their devotion to this cause : and it may w^ell be hoped that the 

 past will be but an incentive to future efforts, — that their practices may 

 diffuse yet richer blessings at home, and command more respect and win 

 more followers abroad. 



Still further : The American Farmer should be an Educated Man. 

 Knowledge is power the world over. We live in an age signalized by the 

 diffusion of mental light, we live in a country pledged by its institutions, 

 and devoted by its tastes, to make popular education thorough and uni- 

 versal. We live in a State upon Avhich the munificence of the General 

 Government has bestoAved the means of educating every man, woman 

 and child. Common school instruction is the birth-right of every son 

 and daughter of Wisconsin. The Pierian Spring bubbles literally at your 

 door-steps, and your children and your childrens' children have but to 

 kneel down and drink of the waters of knowledge. Ignorance among 

 us must be hereafter a disgrace. The will only is Avanting ; the will, on 

 the part of parents, and obedience on the part of children, to make the 

 future population of Wisconsin the most generally, if not the most 

 thoroughly, educated people on earth. And shall that will be wanting ? 

 Shall a people who have their destinies in their own hands ; with whom 

 rests the sovereign power ; who frame and abrogate constitutions ; pass 

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