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our country than all the facts, and all the victories of war. [Cheers.] Wis¬ 
consin has stood nobly in this war; she has done her full duty; she has sup¬ 
plied not only men and money but intellect and thought. Muscle and bone 
are nothing; there must be the intellectual activity to direct them. Muscle 
is an element in power, but intellect is power itself. 
I! In giving credit to your State for what she has done, it is only fair to say, 
right from the beginning of this Avar the Second Wisconsin Regiment has 
served Avith m*’, and braver, nobler, better, more intelligent men I have not 
found. At Bull Run they stood firmly by me, and I appeal to all the soldiers 
here, and ask if I did not always, Avhether in prosperity or defeat, give a 
hearty welcome to a Wisconsin regiment? [Cheers.] I don’t want to be 
understood as detracting from the credit due to any other State—I simply 
desire to do justice to you. You may be assured that you will find good men 
cveryAvhere, but some men are more accustomed to order and dicipline than 
others, and pre-eminent among such are the men from this State. And so 
Wisconsin, rich in her children, rich in the fertility of her soil, rich in all 
that makes a State great and poAverful, is a representative of that strength 
which makes up the sum of the American Union. [Loud Cheers.] The war 
war has closed—Ave feel now assured of a peace which shall be as lasting in 
its quality as it is long in duration ; Avhen every man can sit down under the 
shadow of his OAvn vine and fig tree, and “ be not afraid,” Avithout the fear 
of any draft officer coming to take his cherished son away. [Cheers.] 
May such peace be ours forever, and may Ave take advantage of it to de- 
velope this as Avell as other States. May yon do this, and so far succeed in 
it that Wisconsin shall rear her head as the proudest of all our proud States. 
[Cheers.] 
EX-GOVERXOR RANDALL’S SPEECH. 
Ex-Gov. Randall expres.^ed his pleasure in seeing so large a crowd present 
to welcome the foremost General of the age ; the general Avho fights with his 
pen as Avell as with his sAvord. [Cheers.] 
He was not an agriculturist, and could not speak as a man having au¬ 
thority upon such subjects, but he could talk about what he had seen, and 
recognized the value of the productions of the farmers of the West, especi¬ 
ally of Wisconsin. The wealth of the Union came from the soil—to that 
alone could its origin be traced, from that alone did it spring, and among all 
of those States, great among the greatest Avas Wisconsin. There could be 
no end to her greatness so long as her people did all they could to develop 
her resources. Prosperity was a natural and inevitable result, and should 
not be received Avith any astonishment. Four years ago, or a little more 
than that, we were plunged into a great rebellion, from which we have elimi¬ 
nated victory. To-day Ave are at peace, and I desire that we shall make that 
peace not only glorious to our country but to each State and to each indi¬ 
vidual. In that case, there will be no fear for the future of this great na¬ 
tion. We have grown more rapidly as a country than the countries of the 
