The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-03-27

In this the hotr OF our common trouble leave vo1
under the sincere conviction of your general desire ID
re- esablish the fortunes Of native State and to
restore prosperity and happiness TO her people To
her and their fortunes you welded for good and
Tor evil. She is your common parent and they are
your common constituents, bound TO you you are
bound to them by the triple cord of duty interest and
affection, the most enduring ties which can bind
man to man, or exercise influence over the human
heaf ON tins side of that eternity 10 which we all
last fastening. feel and know that you viii not
disappont the confidence which has invested you with
The high trusts which you seyeralIy and collectively
hod, but that you will SO discharge the duties which
you owe TO those constituents shall rebound TO the
lame and honor of our common State. While, there
lore, sympahze deeply the difficulties and dis
tress which surround you, take with me the
lation that out OF evil your patriotism, intelligence
and irmness, cannot fail eventually produce good
That result Is certainly not unattainabe. Difficult
though the task be, IL is still within your power.
There is nothing irretrievabe in the condition in
which we are placed. You have only To turn TO the
vast treasury OF your resources Look at the lines of
your public improvements think Of the wealth which
is locked up in the bosoms of your hills; your
eyes the face of your smiling and productive
valleys; contemplate the thousands upon thousands
of patriotic and industrious people with which our ter
ritory is swarming throughout its whole extent; lay
down all this picture before you and then despair if it
be possible
You have difficulties, it is true but with all these
resources, and what ID still better, with wise heals
strong hands and steady hearts, great Stale may
yet he released from all the endorsements which
now surround her Ii is your task and not mine
but though separated from you in person, my heart
will continue TO be with you at every step in your pro-
gress, and my prayers shall be offered that when you
come to close am doing your connection with
this body you may be able look back with pleasure
to difficulties overcome-to noble achievements effect
ed and To contentment and abundance restored 10 the
face of a smiling land
lnger with you but for moment longer and
ak.ss ...lt fI...l.
which eight years ago | entered as one of the hum
blest of its MEMBERS and do not, far my reco
lection serves mo, single face OF all those
with whom was then associated. How ransitory
and eetng all the incidents of this life in which
we take so much INTEREST," How perishable all the
enjoyments which surround and connect us with the
busy world ON which move or those, the ear
est of my contemporaries have returned to their
constituents, to enjoy the approving voice OF public
thanks for duties well fulfilled. Of others, many
others--the mortal frames are now sleeping beneath
the cIods of the valley while their immortal spirits
have gone to render account of the still higher
trust With which they have been commissioned from
on high. What a picture is here How rapidly do
we pass away! How like are we, with all our high
hopes and towering aspirations to the grass which
wthereth, the vapor which is melted away before
the breath of the morning
Brother Senators 81 impressed with deep
sense of the solemnity of this occasion well in
ference the picture which have presented to my
own personal connection with this body. now sepa
rate from you. And here, in the moment of that sepa
ration allow offer you my earnest, my profound,
my heartfelt acknowledgements for the kindness, the
regard, the courtesy which you all occasions have
so generously extended towards Wherever go
shall bear with the recollection of my intercourse
with you of the sweetest consultations OF my
life and whatever may be my future destiny in this
changing world my ardent prayers shall ever as
cend for the prosperity of our glorious Commonwealth
and the happiness and welfare Of every Individual
amongst you.
Gentlemen The trust which you have SO gener-
ously confded to me-the high trust which has been
honored by SO many ADLER administrators, and still
honoIed by tho intellectual and moral character
of the body with which it is connected is now sur
rendered hack, unimpared, trust either in useful
dignity, into the hands of you by whom it was
generously conferred.