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 domestic difCknlties were mtceemMly avoided. Hit teim expired September 10, 1862, and he retired to liie farm in Lane County. He afterward served a term in die lower house of Congress (1878) and for a few years was Collector of Internal Revenoe in Pordand. He died at his home in Eugene in 1902.

Oregon State Seal. When Oregon became a Stale, the territorial seal was abolished and the one provided by the State Constitutional Convention came into use. The centerpiece of the state seal is an escutcheon supported by thirtythree stars to indicate that Oregon was the thirty-third state admitted into the Union. The State motto, "The Union," divides the escutcheon into an upper and a lower section. On the upper section are mountains, an elk with branching antlers, a wagon, the Pacific Ocean on which a British man-of-war is departing while an American ship is arriving. OREGON STATE SEALi On the lower section are a sheaf, a plow, and a pickax. Upon the crest of the escutcheon is an American eagle. Bordering these is the legend—"State of Oregon, 1859."

Oregon and 'The Pacific Republic." Upon the approach of the Civil War there was announced a deep laid scheme affecting Oregon which was as treasonable as the one conceived by Aaron Burr on Blennerhaasett's lale. The scheme which probably oriffutiated in California was based upon theory that as the result of the Civil War the nation would be divided into the Northern States and the Southern States.

iThe origilial design for the State Seal of Oregon was drawn with a steel pern in the hand of Ii. F. Orover, one of the Cknnmlttee men on Seal choson by tlio Stato Constitutional ronvention. The State Seal in cuiumon use is not an exact copy of the one designed by the Committee. oiyui^cG by GoOglc