Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-02-07
Adjournment OF lhe legislature.

The Legislature of this State adjourned at eight
o'clock on tie morning ofWednesday the 29th ult
after session of sevcnty-two, days. We give the
Standards account Of the closing scenes in the Sem
ate and House of Commons. We also give, on anoth-
er page the Captions of the Acts passed. for which
we are also indebted to the Standard. as we have
been during the session for its full and accurate
ports of the proceedings of the Legislature. The
Standard says that there may be, and no doubt are
some omissions made and we are informed by one
OF our members that such is the fact in regard to
measures concerning New Hanover county. But it
would be foolish to expect it otherwise, considering
the noise and confusion" amid which it was COM
piled at the close of the session. By the way Gen.
CAss denies that he used the phrase noise and
confusion.
In looking over the acts of this session. it is almost
impossible to what more could have been expec-
ted than has been done. By this, do not mean to
say that the Legislature has done everything that is
right, or that everything which has been done is
right-but what mean is, that its acts have diff
fered very little from what any reasonable man
might have expected, from its composition and the
circumstances under which it met We have had
some little curiosity to compare the actual business
done with our own ideas of what would be done as
expressed in the Journal of Nov. 18TH Immediately
preceding the meeting of the General Assembly, and
We find the only variation of any practical impor-
lance to DO in regard to the redistricting of the
State-or rather the repeal of the Gerrymander of
1867. The Free Suffrage bill has passed, and will
eventually become portion of the constitution AS
might have been expected nothing has been appro-
priated for any work of Internal Improvement. The
reaction arising from the large appropriations of the
IF 12dS 20 10 foo nd oil
could have desired the extension of some aid to
the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad, we do not
feel discouraged nor disappointed, as we hardly ex-
pected any We feel almost certain that it will be
given next time-enough to finish what may then be
unfinished We repeat, no reasonable man can be
disappointed with the Legislature for having done
nothing in the way of appropriations at this session
The difficulty at present is to devise ways and means
for meeting the liabilities already incurred. We
publish the revenue bill of this Legislature, but with
out having given it sufficient study to enable to
say, directly, how far it may go in raising enough
money to meet the accrung liabilities of the State
although appears to that it will not be adequate
to the purpose.
Resolutions of thanks were unanimously passed in
both Houses to the Speakers respectively, to which
Mr. Speaker Edwards and Mr.. Speaker Dobbin res
pouucu HI tAe 1HoSt IcA VII
ing the Senate, Mr.. Speaker Edwards said:
GENTLEMEN Il heartily thank you for your gen.
approval of my administration of the duties of
the Chair. But whatever merit there may be in
that administration, it is due rather to you than to
any proficiency skill of my own. By your con-
slant observance of all the rules of order, and
teous department in all that concerned your inter
course Members and gentlemen. you rendered
the task committed to of easy performance and
not without great pleasure. This mi ht have been
ri
ed it always has been for the urbanty Gifts mem
bers and their love of order and decorum
IF our common labors gentlemen, shall be crown
ed with the happy results which honest intentions
and enlightened and patriotic devotion to the pub
lie interests--so signay manifest in all your DELHI
eratonsaways deserve and rarely, if ever, fail to
produce, shall ever be able to recur with pride
and delight to our participation in the public ser
vice at the present Session of the General Assembly
May such, gentlemen. be the good fortune of each
and all of you, is my fervant wish.
We should have been more than men, if we had
not, in the progress of labors, been sometimes
betrayed into excitement, tinctured no little by
erbity both of feeling and remark but men, it
can cost us effort to regard these things fugi
tive as the moment in which they had their birth,
and to remember them as among the things that
have been. In taking leave of each other, and re-
turning home to mingle again with our friends and
constituents let us not forget that though widely
separated, we still brethren of the family,
and that our common household is North Carolina,
the whole of North Carolina and nothing but North
Carolina--always remembering that the highest
praise of the good citizen is that he is dutfu 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 our legislative labors
must close. The hour of separation is now 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
your deliberations with impartiality and integrity
Gentlemen thank you-from my heart thank
you-for this manifestation of kindness in the
luton just adopted
have been playing part, is one where may we'll
have been expected those exhibitions the result
of the promptings of patriotism-State pride-per-
sonal ambition, and sectional jealousy.
Permit me, gentlemen, to tender you my congrat-
ulations, that patriotism and State pride have tri
umphed this occasion, and to express to you my
sincere hope, and my confident expectation, that
your arduous and protracted labors will contribute
to the honor of beloved State the prosperity and
happiness of our common constituents And it, in
moments Of excitement, personal ambition,
tional jealousy. and impusive ardor hath prompted
any of us to infiict wound-let the wound now be
healedlet the very recollection of its existence be
chased from the memory by those generous impulses
and kindly emotions which we all feel, and cannot
sfe at this moment of our parting perhaps to
meet again.
Gentlemen, bid you all an affectionate farewell.
But before separation let this occasion of mel