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claims to exhibit, and calls for the grand result in the order in 

 which the Legislature of oui* State arranged in our charter — that is, 



First — Agriculture. 



Second — Commerce. 



T/iird — Manufactures . 



Last — The arts. 



You see that the cultivator of the earth is here, as in our Holy 

 Bible, placed in the front rank of all the immense army of workers 

 on our globe. And thankful are we for this graad command, " In 

 the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, 'til thou return unto 

 the ground; for out of it wast thou taken : for dust thou art and 

 unto dust shalt thou return." 



All nations who obey this law flourish ! — those who despise it 

 always die, as well individually as nationally. And tliis law is 

 delivered to each human being; so that no class, nor any indi- 

 vidual has a right to be idle, however he may be one of Virgil's 

 " Fruges consumer e 7iati" which I render into our language, 

 " Born to eat the corn.''^ 



We are bound to ' ' work until the day cometh wherein no man 

 can work." Since this Republic came of age, and tliat was in my 

 time, although I am still young I She has worried the earth with 

 her plow and the sea with her keels — she has loomed it so that 

 she can cover the nakedness of the world with her cotton cloth — 

 she has made myriads of pieces of it for sixpence a yard, worth 

 five times as much for strength and beauty as the old hum-hums 

 which for ages came from the poor hand looms of the East Indians, 

 those woven hum-bugs which had no merit but slazinessl And 

 we fetch and carry now, to the amazement of the world, in our 

 clippers and steamers — those clippers whose lofty sails and clean 

 long floors, and sharp runs, run away almost from the steamers, 

 and carry cargoes of four thousand tons — enough almost to sink 

 an old first-rate man of war. 



There is an old saying, that there is " No royal road to learn- 

 ing." No age but this more fully illustrates that saying. The 

 destruction of the old law of primogeniture by the founders of 

 our republic, drew tears of joy from the early republicans of our 

 country. I have seen those tears shed. Now all share, and 

 share alike. There was anciently no road which was true, level, 

 and passable at high speed. Now, by railroads, if made around 

 the world, one might run from here to California in four days. 



Bridges were made in all the world to be fixtures over streams. 

 Now, Field, the Jimerican^ makes them locomotives. They take 



