Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1845-03-28
Ohio Legislature.
SENATE,

THURSDAY MORNING, ) o'clock, A. .M
March l3, 1845.
A quorum present, and the Clerk procee.
ded to read the JoulnaI,
A resolution came up from the House.
appointing M. ]. Gilbert Trustee of the
Institution for the Blind, which was adop-
led
Mr.. Kelley Of F., offered a resolution.
authorizing the Auditor of State TO have
printed in pamphlet form, 400 copies Of the
bill to provide ior the more equal assessment
of the property, &c., for the purposes OF
taxation, and requesting him to forward
copies OF the law TO the several county Au-
ditors Of the State.
Several members who were not present
when the question was put on the vote OF
thanks 10 the Speaker, recorded their yoles
in the affirmative.
After the transaction Of some unlhpor-
tant business,
The Senate took arecess for twenty min.
utes.
When the Senate again met, and the
question being on adjournment, the Spea-
ker rose and pronounced the following
valedictocy:
GENTLEMEN OF THE SryArE:-The vote
of appreciation which YOU have been Plea
sed to pass in my behalf, is source of
equal pleasure aud pride, and will be cher
ished amons my lates:recoections With
outtnuch pride Of opinion, or skill in par
liamentary proceeding, have endeavored
to discharge my duties as your presiding
officer, fairly and impartially, according to
my best Judgment If lhave failed in any
matter or thing, the error has not been in
territorial.
Twenty-eight years gone by, it was my
station and duty to draw within the fresh
walls of this chamber, the first line of legis.
lative proceeding, at the then new seat of
government. Though many Of the pioneer
patriots of the State, whose native and un-
cultivated eOquence has oft e-echoed with
in these Chambcrs-but who are now gone
ARE heard no more--I, their contempo-
rary am yet here--and spared with de-
gree Of elasticity and buoyancy, unusual
at my age-legislating in common with
Senators, their sons, qualified hv age to
take seats in this branch Of the General
Assembly: one OF whom was born since
the commencement of my Legislative action
in the councils Of the State. In the course
Of thirteen sessions of legislative life, here,
and in the national legislature, have ne
yer lost a single day from duty, by reason
Of sickness. For all this am, and ought
to be, thankful to the giver of all good
In all the collisions Of party warfare, and
political strife, in which | have mingled
with zeal and earnesmess-and amid the
passages at arms, in debate with
my political opponents in these halls, | trust
| have never created personal enemy:
And can frankly say, towards my poiti- |
cal opponents, with one or two solitary
exceptions, and they not now of this Iegis-
ature,) have no personal feeling, other
than that of the most perfect Kindness
and long association in legislative life with
many, has created feelings near akin to
hose entertained among brethren.
That we shall meethere again in legis-
ative capacity, is altogether beyond hope |
u probability. Whether | myself shall
'Oer be here again, in that capacity, is also
within the chapter of accidents.
| earnestly and confidently hope you will
Ill reach your homes and families, with
alety, and in comfort. That when YOU
eturn and mix with your fellow-ctizens, |
you will guard the honor and interests of
he people Of our goodly State, in these
rying times, with jealous care-and my |
most fervent hope is, that on all great ma |
ional questions, affecting the happiness of
free people, and the stability and perpe-
uity of our Federal Union-we shall, IT.
of party feeling, or party bias,
pursue, unitedly, such course of action,
IS will finally lead to the establishment of