Lower Sandusky freeman. (Lower Sandusky [i.e. Fremont, Ohio]) 1849-1849, 1849-03-24
speaker vinthrop,s VaIedictory.

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Gentlemen ot' the Hoase Of Representatives:
The hour has arrived which terminates our rela
tons to the country and relations to each other
as membersof the Thirtieth Congress- and yor
have already pronounced the word which puts an
end at once to my vocation and to your own
But neither the usage of the occasion, nor my
own feelings will allow me to leave the chair with
out word of acknowledgment and word of fare
WELL to those with whom l have been so long as
sociated, and by whom have been so highly hon.
ored.
Certainly, gentlemen, should subject myself to
charge of great ingratitude, were not to thank
you for the Resolution in reference to my official
services, which you have placed upon the records
within few hours past
Such resolution, need not say, is the most
precious testimonial which any presiding officer can
receive, and affords the richest remuneration for
any labors which it may have cost
1t did not require however, this formal tribute
at your hands, to furnish me with an occasion OF
grateful acknowledgment to you all. am deeply
sensible that no intentions, however honest, and no
efforts however earnest could have carried me safely
and successfully through with the duties which
have been imposed upon me, had not been sec
onded and sustained from first to last by your kind
cooperation and friendly forbearance
Ibeg you, then, to receive my most hearty thanks
not merely for so generous an appreciation OF my
services, but for the uniform courtesy and conf
dence which you have manifested toward me dur
ing my whole official term, and by which you have
done so much to tighten the labors and relieve the
responsibilities which nseparable from the chair
of the House.
can honestly say, gentlemen, that have en-
deavored to the best of my ability, to fulfill the
pledges with which entered upon this arduous sta
ton, and to discharge its complicated and difficult
6IPp
Nor am conscious of having given just cause of
imputaton or offence to any member OF the House.
If there be one, however, towards whom l have
seemed, at any moment to exhibit any thing of In
patience freely offer him the only reparaon IN my
power, in this public expression of my sincere re-
gret
We have been associated, gentlemen during
most eventful period in the history of our country
and of the world. 1t would be difficult to desig-
nate another era in the modern annals of mankind
which has been signalzed by so rapid a succession
of startling political changes.
Let us rejoice that while the powers of the earth
have almost every where else been shaken, that
while more than ene of the mightiest monarchs
and stateiest empires of Europe have tottered or
have fallen, our own American Republic has stood
firm
Let us rejoice at the evidence which has thus
been furnished to the friends of liberty throughout
the world of the Inherent stability of Institutions
which are founded on the rock of written consti-
tuition and which sustained by the will of free
and intelligent people.
And let us hope and trust-as 1 for one, most
fervently and confidently do-that, by the blessing
of God upon prudent conciiatory, and patriotic
counses every cause of domestic dssenson and fra
ternal discord may be speedily done away, and the
states and the people, whose Representatives we
are, may be bound together forever, in firm, cor
dial, and indssoluble union.
Offering once more to you all my most grateful
of your kindness, and my best
wishes for your individual health and happiness,
proceed to the performance of the only duty which
remains to me by announcing, as now do, that the
House of Representatives of the United States
stands adjourned, sine die.