Massachusetts. Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietam. Kentucky. United we stand; divided we fall. South Carolina. PATRICK HENRY. Animis opibusque parati. Prepared in mind Dum spiro spero While I breathe, I hope. Alabama. THE LIGHT OF POETRY. (Red.) Here we rest. Tennessee. Agriculture, Commerce. XVI. Arkansas. Regnant populi. The people rule. Florida. In God is our trust. Michigan. Si quæris peninsulam amœnam, circumspice. If thou seekest a beautiful peninsula, behold it here. Tuebor. I will defend. E Pluribus Unum. North Carolina. Constitution. Louisiana. Union, Justice, and Confidence. THE LIGHT OF STATE. (Violet.) E Pluribus Unum! 1776! Liberty! Suffrage. Justice. Fraternity. Liberty. Washington, D. C. Justitia omnibus. Justice for all. Montana. (Oro y plata-Gold and Silver-the territorial motto of Montana, is not here given.) Iowa. Our liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain. Texas. (No motto is given.) Maryland. Crescite et Multiplicamini. Increase and Multiply. Genesis ii., 22. Virginia. Sic semper tyrannis. Thus ever to tyrants. September 9, 1850. (Date of territorial organization. No motto is given.) Wisconsin. Forward! Forward! E Pluribus Unum. Nevada. All for our country. Missouri. “Salus populi suprema lex esto." Let the safety of the people be the supreme law. CIC. De Leg, iii., 13.* United we stand; divided we fall. Indiana. (No motto is given.) Illinois. State sovereignty, National Union. PATRICK HENRY. * Quoted by Cicero from THE TWELVE TABLES. De Officio Consulis. Wyoming. THE LIGHT OF TRUTH. (Blue.) Cedant arma toga. Let arms yield to the gown. Cic. Philip., ii., 8. Idaho. Salve. Hail. Arizona. Sitat Deus. Founded by God. North Dakota. Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable. WEBSTER. Second Speech on Foot's Resolution, January 26, 1830. New Mexico. Crescit eundo. It grows as it goes. VIR. Æn. iv., 175. Colorado. MDCCCL. Alis volit propriis. She flies with her own wings. The Union. 1850. Ohio. (No motto is given.) Kansas. Ad astra per aspera. To the stars through difficulties. SEN. Her. Fur., 441. L'étoile du Nord. The star of the North. California. Eureka. I have found it. The Great Seals of Minnesota and California, which are not given in the House Reading Room, are included in the representation of the Seals of the States and Territories, in the semicircular windows in the rotunda. The distinguished names in Art, Science, Literature, and Mythology; the Printers' Marks; mere words inseparably connected with the surrounding, mural decoration of the various halls and pavilions, and inscribed, in some instances, upon a painting itself,- —are not given in this collection, the scope of which is neither biographical nor descriptive. An exception, however, has been made of the groups of single words "In the Dome," and under "The Light of Progress" and "The Light of State," where the meaning was sufficiently definite. 23 Dor M |