Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-03-23

oil signing enrolled bills. After performing this duty
the speaker again resumed the Chair.
WI torRorHER rose and asked whether all the bust
| ness before the House had been disposed of!
| The SPEAKER replied in the affirmative
r MT 'oTRoTHER then moved that the Senate be in
formed OF the readiness OF the House of Delegates to
| adJ Jurn sine die.
The SPEAKER having deputed MIR Strotber TO per-
FORM llat ouly, message was received from the Sc
nate sang that that body having completed all the bu
sness before it, was prepared, with the consent of the
House OF Delegates, to adjourn till the first Monday in
| December next.
Mr.: SrRorHER then moved that the House adjourn
SINE dae and the question thereupon being determined
in the affirmative,
The SPEAKER rose and delivered the following vale
dictory:
GENTLEMEN This day sewers my official and poi-
tlca connection with you, in all human probability for
ever During Legislative service with some of YOU
lor many years. and with all OF you during the session
"nch we are about 10 consgn, in its order OF past
events, to the Historian and the Statesman, | have
contracted ties OF friendship and attachment which bind
me Closer ana stronger and warmer to you, the mo-
hent vi our separation approaches But it is ordained
OF Providence, that all things shall have an end In
the execution OF his high Decree the smallest atom of
matter as well as the largest, is annhilated-man and
all his proud magnificent works flourish for dav and
are no n,0re-earth's noblest obesks and monuments
and pyramids, mouder into dust-nations fall. and
empires vanish. Catching from the solemn scene
around me the gloomy inspiration of the Poet NAV
add
This great Globe, and all which it inherit,
Shall dissolve-and like an unsubstantial pageant
faded,
Leave not wreck behind.'
Even the mighty and resistless tide of Time, which
bears the universe upon its bosom, is flowing on with
more than Lightning speed, and will ultimately heaye
Its floating of dissolvng worlds upon the bound
less Ocean OF Eternity. In view of these grand and
SUBLIME awful results, in the univera process of crea
ton and dissolution las prescribed by the irrepeaabe
ana qnamendabie Law OF God0 the expiration ct
tins Legislative body, and the separation of its
memhers-many Of them, perhaps torevet-becomes
Of atixnl,, b,,4 E..Io
and insignificant importance Some of Won will
meet again in this Hall, and all of YOU | trust.
In the midst OF your friends, and in the bosom Of
your families may enjoy many long years yet to come
OF pubic confidence and OF individual health happi-
ness and prosperity, My emotions at this mo-
ment, are, perhaps, different from yours When here
toore have been allied to witness the closing scenes of
many adJourning Legislatures my gloom has been to
considerable extent dlsspaed by the hope that should
meet my representative colleagues in council again
But now, with public honors bestowed upon my hum
Die name, Tar, very tar beyond my Just claims to any
such distinction; and, with whatever ambition ever
possessed even In the most buoyant days of my early
manhood inly and perfectly grated retire from this
Hall tor the last time, to eassume my proper position
IN the popular multitude and spend the remnant of
OF private enterprise.
ALLOW me then, gentlemen, this parting occasion
TO congratulate myself upon the fact that have been
Gaied oy extraordinary unanmity to preside over the
delberatons OF the House OF Delegates during two of
the most important sessions of the General Assembly
ever eonvenedn which we have had to consider more
tan thousand bills, besides revising all the laws of
the Commonwealth civil and criminal. And il will
ever be to me source OF the proudest satisfaction to
remember that during these two sessions of unwonted
LABOR and duration, but solitary appeal was taken
from any OF my numerous decisions upon points of Or
der; and in that case was sustained by the very de-
clded vote OF 70 to IA. am vain enough howe
yer, gentlemen, 10 assume, that account or any
other that my administration of the duties OF the Chair
has been free OF error and allude to it in this connec
on lrst Tor the purpose OF returning TO you nv ntse
nearly thanks Tor the very generous indulgence Won
nave ever to and secondly to do an act of
Simple justice to another. Much OF the success which
mas attended my efforts in the Chair IF success it may
ne termed has been owing to the prompt and very eff
Gent AID which have received from one of the best pap
llaInentarans in this Unon-I allude to our able and
faithful Clerk, who sits before me, and of whom 7
must be permitted to add his personal integrity his fine
taenfs, MS ardent patriotism, and his uncomfortable No.
dnsty emineny hetit him for any post Of tyust o.
honor 70 winch his country may ever assign haa Nor
can allow this occasion to pass without bearing NV
Wiling testimony to the promptitude aad fidelity Of ali
the other officers OF the House from our gallant Ser
geant at, Arms down to- our ever-ready and r,nch
beloved little pages IN conclusion, may the 5ounties
OF earth and the blessings Of Heaven be yoars It onfy
aa so me G'o to perform the last and by far the
pronounce this House adjourned "sine die"