Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-01-07

~ bill to promote connecting railroads between
the Orange and Alexandria and ManaSSa Gap
Railroads and the Richmond Fredericksburg aud
Potomac Railaoad, was taken up. The question
pending being to the bill on the table, it was de-
cided in the affirmation. Sothe bill lays on the
table
A bill to amend the fourth section of the act
passed May 31st, 1852, relative to Inspectors of
Tobacco so as to authorize tina Clerks of Courts
to take the bonds Of. said Inspectors, was read
a second time aud ordered to be engrossed and
read third time.
~ - COMPLIMENTARY RESOLUTIONS.
MI. Creigh IN offering the following resolu-
tons, said he was sure they would meet with
warm response in the heart of every Senator:
hesotced, lqaHimonsty, That the thanks of
the Senate are due and hereby rendered to Pres
ident Shelton F. Leake, for the able, prompt and
impartial manner with which he has invariably
discharged the duties ofhis5of
Resolred, That on this, the eve of our separa-
ton, we cannot withhold an expression of the
high satisfaction we have derived from our per-
sonal US well as our social intercourse with
him.
Resogte,7, That in retiring from the Presi-
dency Of the Senate, Lieut.. Gov. LeaIe, carries
with him our best wishes for his future welfare
and prosperity.
Mr.. Jones, being in the chair, the resolutions
were adopted unanimously.
The President having resumed the chair, Mr..
Tazewell moved that the House adjourn.
Previous to putting the question, the Presi-
dent addressed the Senate as follows:
Senators:-Before announcing the result of
the vote Just taken-a vote which sewers forever
my official connection with the Senate and puts
an end to my public career-Is beg to return to
you my grateful acknowledgement for the reso-
lutiOns, complimentary to myself, which you
have been pleased tosadept, and which have just
been communicated TO me.
In consciousness that / have exerted myself
to discharge the duties incumbent upon me, as
your presiding officer fairly, honestly and
impartally, is, of ITSELF most gratifying refiec
ton; while the knowledge that you have been
pleased to set the seal of your appreciation to
the manner in which those duties lave been met,
is the only reward ever sought, and the high
est that could have been acborded to me. An
other consideration is peculiarly pleasing to me:
in bidding final atetl to this body, after SER
vice of four years, take with me noresentments
and leave behind me no animosities. In my
intercourse, both official and sobial. with every
member of the Senate, have been treated with
an answering kindness and courtesy, which,
more than anything else, causes me to regret
the separation whichis now to take place.
If have been successful in the discharge of
my duties here, it is mainly because l have
Der of the body. The ability and fidelity with
which you have met your Legislative obligation,
they have left but little for your esident to do
and at the same time, afford a sure guarantee
that in your hands the honor and interests of
our good old Commonwealth, may be securely
conided
But, gentlemen, arose simply to return you
my acknowledgements for your kindness-not
to deliver an addrcss-and it now only remains
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farewell, and to give expression to my earnest
aspirations for the continued prosperity and hap
pines of yourselves and families.
now declare that the Senate stands adjourn
ed until tomorrow at u o'clock.
SENATE.
TUESDAY, January 1, 1856.
The Senate was called to order at Il o'clock
by Lieut.. Gov. McComas.
Prayer by the Rev. Mr.. Woodbridge of the
Monumental church.
The Lieutenant Governor then delivered the
Senators:-It is not my purpose, in taking
upon myself the presidency of your body, to
speak of public affairs. Virginia, having Just
passed through the most fiery ordeal of her po-
ltical history, energies from the struggle but to
encounter additional troubles and more alarming
dangers. Her internal condition calls for your
utmost deliberation and sagaeity; while, judging
relations may Mt any moment call for the cXer-
ton of your highest craftsmanship and loftiest
patriotism. But whatever may be the difficult
ties in our path, or the dangers which may sur
round us, Nirginia may look to her legislators
with the proud conviction, that in their hands,
her honor and filth, at home and abroad, will
be maintained unsullred, at any cost
1t has been the pleasure of the people of Nir-
ginia to reserve to themselves the election of
g., 4I,,I ~
elected, without reference to the personal partial
tiles or party organizations of the body over
which he presides, viii tend to free him from al
personal obligations and to enable him to dis
charge the high trust rcposcd in him with in:-
Partially. Deriving his powers and position
from the same sovereign authority from which
you have received your own, your President
becomes neither your servant nor master, but
your peer and equal; responsible to you, not by
the relation of representative and constituent,
but by the not less binding ties that should ex-
list between associated gentlemen. Called to
preside over you by the voice Of part, lie at
once becomes the officer of the te6ols people,
and should be animated by the same spirit of
patriotic devotion, to Justice and right which
actaates yourselves. Whether your presiding
officer viii be inspired by these lofty considera-
tons, Will be determined by his actions rather
than his professions. Knowing that he must
NC Will LDdL
and accomplished parliamentarian, his predeces-
sor, he does not take upon himself the discharge
of his duties without becoming difidencc But
sustained by conscious desire to do right
buoyed up by the conviction that he issurronnd-
ed by Viginians and gentlemen, he may well en-
terrain the idea that your aid aud forbcarance
viii, IL . great degree, compensate for his mex
perience.
Senators: Itakc office with unkind feelings
to none-trust to lay it down the friend of all,
CoNNUNIcATIoS FROM THE GOVERNOR.
The Clerk read the following communication
from the Governor OF the Commonwealth:
RIcMIoND, Jan. LIST, 1856
To the Senate and House of Delegates of the
General Assembly, of the State of Virginia:
z GeaAeman:-Notifed by the two House of
this General Assembly, that | have been elected
by the people Governor of this State, for the
term of four years commencing on the LIST day of
January, instant, have appeared at the Exccu-
tive Chamber in the Capitol, taken the oaths pre-
scribed by law, and have entered upon the duties
of the Office.
beg leave to assure the Legislature of my
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