Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-11-23

awakened and inspired by the complementary
terms of the resolution you have just adopted, !
accompanied by the eloquent and iattering re-
marks Of the honorable gentleman from Lyn-
don, and the hearty and unanimous response of
the House.
As sincere and earnest assurance Of your
cordial and generous approval of the manner in
which have dischared the responsible and del
icate trust confined to my care, it is most hap
by fulfllment Of my warmest and strongest
hopes-the gratifying and successful achieve
ment of my highest and proudest ambition.
For the many errors and indiscretions, which,
from nv inexperience and imperfect qualihca-
tons, am painfully conscious have commit
ted, l humbly crave at this parting hour, the
kind charity of your forgiveness, and pray you
to remember that "to err is hlman--to forgive,
divine" s-...a
And, gentlemen, beg you to believe me when
| assure you, that your generous forbearance
with me in all my faults, your uniform kind
ness and courtesy towards me during the session
which is now about to close, will hereafter, for
the brief period, which, by the blessing of Him
in whose hands our breath is, may be permit
ted to live, be cherished as among the happiest
Of the bright memories Of the past, and will
ever be fondly and sacredly treasured in my
very "heart of hearts, as the dearest and most
grateful recollection in the brief history of my
legislative experience.
Gentlemen the curtain is about to fall upon
the closing scenes of our labors; we are about
to interchange the friendly, but sad farewell
solutions which to many, Uery many of Us, may
be our last on earth our last kind word and
:" arM tare,oeH," until we shall meet each other,
in the great General Assembly Of the just made
perfect, in House moi made with hands, eter-
in the Heavens"
Our work as legislators is done our trust
as the representatives and guardians Of the peo-
pie is discharged; and we shall I'M few short
hours be among our constituents, to render an
account OF the stewardship which they entrus-
ted to our care @
We shall in few short hours bid adieu to
each other, to the brilliant array OF beauty and
intelligence with which during our present SEES
sion, we have SO often in this superb and spa
cious Hall been surrounded, and to the delight
full associations and generous Inequalities which
have rendered our present annual visit to our
State Capital, so attractive and agreeable.
In a few mare short hours we shall find our
selves at our own pleasant homes, where we
shall be welcomed by the loved ones, who have
long and anxiously awaited our return, and who,
even at this moment, are anticipating, with eyes
sparkling with delight, and hearts leaping with
joy, our temperance among them, to enjoy
anew the sacred and endearing pleasures of our
own peaceful fresides and the comforts of the
social hearthstone.
Around those quiet, domestic fresides-amid
those endeared and sacred circles, which, as you
reach your homes, will gather around you in
your own peaceful dwellings, may health and
happiness, love, purity and fidelity forever pre-
side; and when our labor of love and life and
duty shall have drawn to ciose-when the
sloO but sure gathering films of age shall have
well nigh obscured from our moral vision the
last scenes of earth--may the consciousness Of
Il life well spent enable us to close our eyes
upon it without remorse and without regret ; but
sustained and sothcd by christians faith and
a christians hope may we, when lile's bless
ings are all enjoyed, life's abors done,