North Carolina standard., 1851-02-01
THE ADJOURNMENT.

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i Both Houses of the General Assembly of thi
State adjourned sine die on Wednesday morning las
at eight o'clock A. NJ. after session of seveay-tw
days. The sessionjust expired was about the same
in length as that two years SINCE All the members
have left for their homes. We wish them safe re.
turn to their constituents and much happiness in al
their personal relations.
Resolutions OF thanks were unanimously passed
both Houses to the Speakers respectively, to which
Mr.. Speaker Edwards and Mr.. Speaker Dobbin res.
ponded in the most appropriate terms. On adjourn
ing the Senate, Mr.. Speaker Edwards said /:
GENTLEMEN IL heartily thank YOU for your gen.
erous approval of my administration of the duties of
the Chair But whatever merit there NAV be in that
administration. it is due rather you than to any pro
cheney or skill of my own. By your constant obser,
ance of all the rules of order and courteous deport-
ment in all that concerned your intercourse as Mem
bers and gentlemen, you rendered the task COM
mtted to me of easy performance and not without
great pleasure This might have been expected of
the Senate of North Carolina, distinguished as it al
ways has been for the ubanity of its members and
their love of order and decorum.
If our common labors, gentlemen, shall be crow ned
with the happy results which honest intentions and
enlightened and patriotic devotion to the public inter-
signay manifest in all ourdeberations-al-
ways deserve and rarely if ever, fail 10 produce we
shall be able with pride delight to our
participation in the public service the present Session
n,
be the good fortune of each and all of you is my fer
want wish.
We should have been more than men, if we had
not, in the progress of abors, been sometimes be-
trayed into excitement, tinctured little by acerb-
ty, both of feeling and remark but as men, it can
cost effort to regard these things as fugitive
the moment in which they had their birth, and TO re-
member them among the things that have been
In taking leave of each other, and returning home
mingle again with friends and constituents let US
not forget that though widely separated, are still
brethren of the family, and that our common
household is North Carolina, the whole of North Car
olina, and nothing but North Carona-always re-
membering that the highest praise of the good citizen
is, that he is dutiful to his country.
bid you FAREWELL and pray you to take along with
you my fervent prayers for the health and happiness
of each and all of you.
In the House of Commons Mr.. Speaker Dobbin,
prefaced the proclamation of adjournment with the
following remarks:
GENTLEMEN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The time has arrived when legislative labors
must close. The hour of separation is at hand.
| have not language at command TO convey to you
the grateful emotions experience from your gener-
appreciation of my earnest efforts to preside over
deliberations with impartially and integrity.
Gentlemen, thank you-ffom my heart l thank
you-for this manifestation of kindness in the reso-
luton just adopted.
This theatre on which for many weeks past we
have been playing part, is one where may well
have been expected those exhibitions, the result
OF the promptings of patrlotlsm-State prlde-perso
nal ambition, and sectional jealousy.
Permit me, gentlemen, to tender you my congrat-
ulations, that patriotism and State pride have tr-
umphed on this occasion, and to express to you my
sincere hope and my confident expectation, that your
arduous and proracted abors will contribute the
honor of our beloved Sate the prosperity and haPp
ness of our common constituents And if, in moments
Of excitement, personal ambition, sectional iea
ousy, and impulsive ardour hath prompted any of
to infict wound-et the wound be healed
the very recollection of its existence be chased
from the memory by those generous impulses and
kindly emotions which all feel, and stife at
his moment of our parting, perhaps never to meet
again.
Gentlemen, ] bid you all an affectionate farewell.
But before separation, let US, this occasion of
melancholy pleasure, not be content with the renew
Il of pledges of personal friendship, but unite in
,ne heartfelt resolve cultivate and encourage feel
ng of affection for State aim not to be un-
worthy of ancestry who began the great struggle
liberty in seventysix to strive to up that
State pride, without which no State can be great.
Let be proud Of our great country-onr Union,
,ut let love with peculiar affection, the Old North
State Let determine to forget that there is an
East" and 81 West in our State, but have
comprehensive enough to take in the noun
aims of the West and the valleys of the East But
detan you. Farewell! Peace, prosperity, and hap
,ness attend you! Under the resolutions of the Leg
stature, the only duty now have to perform, is to
pronounce the House adjourned without day.