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But free Jabor says u no ! ” Free labor argues, that as the 
Author of man makes every individual with one head and one 
pair of hands, it was probably intended that heads and hands 
should co-operate as friends ; and that that particular head, 
should direct and control that pair of hands. As each man 
has one m'outh to be fed, and one pair of hands to furnish food, 
it was probably intended that that particular pair of hands 
should feed that particular mouth—that each head is the natu¬ 
ral guardian, director and protector of the hands and mouth 
inseparbly connected with it; and that being so, every head 
should be cultivated, and improved, by whatever will add to its 
capacity for performing its charge. In one word free labor in¬ 
sits on universal education. 
I have so far stated the opposite theories of “ mud-silV 1 
and “free labor” without declaring any preference of my own 
between them. On an occasion like this I ought not to declare 
any. I suppose, however, I shall not be mistaken, in assum¬ 
ing as a fact, that the people of Wisconsin prefer free labor, 
with its natural companion, education. 
This leads to the further reflection, that no other human oc¬ 
cupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable 
combination of labor with cultivated thought, as agriculture. 
I know nothing so pleasant to the mind, as the discovery of 
anything that is at once new and valuable —nothing that so 
lightens and sweetens toil, as the hopeful pursuit of such dis¬ 
covery. And how vast, and how varied a field is agriculture, 
for such discovery. The mind, already trained to thought, in 
the country school, or higher school, cannot fail to find there 
an exhaustless source of enjoyment. Every blade of grass is 
a study ; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both 
a profit and a pleasure. And not grass alone; but soils, seeds, 
and seasons—hedges, ditches, and "fences, draining, drouths, 
and irrigation—plowing, hoeing, and harrowing—reaping, mow¬ 
ing, and threshing—saving crops, pests of crops, diseases of 
crops, and what will prevent or cure them—implements, uten¬ 
sils, and machines, their relative merits, and to improve them 
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