Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-05-02

sachusetts furnish each year about three
months work for their representatives. The
variety and tleXibility which distinguish the
state as a producing and commercial COM
munity, employing and classifying her capt.
tai and enterprise under almost every posi-
bic form, cannot realize their complete deyel-
opment and success without much and fire.
quent legislation. The calendar of bills
in this house from year to y,lr is an
index, catalogue of our complex y stem of
industry and arts, of trade and social life
There is no interest in the state so large as to
be above the care of this body, and there is
none SO small as to fall below it. 1t appears
to many persons who look with Indifference
upon the proceedings at the state house, that
we frequently consume much time upon little
matters; and SO we do; and the same thing
is done in the house of commons, even to as
great extent as here. But this is one Of the
proofs of the vitality and vigor of free and
prosperous state. Paternal legislation groups
the whole family of interests under its guar
dianship and protection. The legislature of
free and progressive commonwealth is no
respecter Of persons or of proportions. Thus
have | seen here, during our session, the
same kind Of thoughtful attention bestowed
upon question coming up from one Of the
trout ponds on the south shore, or from some
citizen petitioner unknown to us all, as upon
Il question presented to us by two corporations
having capital of sixteen millions, Or upon
that of tunneling a mountain.
| felicitate you upon the cordial and frater-
nal spirit which from the first has pervaded
your deliberations. Not an acrimonious or
criminatory debate has married one hour Of
your time. | can recall a few slight antago-
nismS-gentle passes, gloved with courtesy
but none in which the rapier was drawn. And
above all, we may and ought to rejoice, on
our own and the public account, that from the
day OF our assembling, tie voice Of political
party has not been once raised beneath this
dome. In adjusting the grave matters of de-
Tending the coast-of arning the state-of re-
imbursng the municipalities-all of them
questions in which liberal patriotism and a
just economy were to be acknowledgements
me rs an impartial observer to bear my testi-
mony, that the house of representatives has
enacted these measures with perfection of
unanimty which wonld be marvellous in time
OF peace, and which is glorious in time of
war. Aud why should not this union of pat
rlotIe minds survive our proroguement? As
we are about TO return to our constituents, let
us be united ourselves, and and let us invoke
the people of the state to be united,
in this period of Oyerhanging public ca
lamity. Are we not all members of one
body, the same national unity, over which the
dark pail OF dismemberment has hung already
so long suspended? Union among ourselves
is the only bond of hope. At time when the
star OF our destiny may be eliminating re-
buking tmidity as weakness and cavalling as
crime, let us rise to the lofty mood of courage
and faith, and by Il loyalty not petulant but
genial, by words not of dark portent but of
brave and manly cheer, let US strengthen the
arm of the president of the United States and
encourage him in adventurous war. Let our
last retreating footsteps from this chamber
sound the beat OF locked ranks, and let the
last refrain of our voices echo the choral strain
of the national anthem.
Gentlemen, the table before me is cleared,
andwe are about to return to our homes. We
all return, for death has not invaded our
benches. [ believe we bear away with us no
grletswhose origin was here; but rather those
pleasant memories of social fellowship and
official duty which blend in whatever Joy there
is in public life. AS we shall not meet again,
henceforth the ties of our relationship will
be ideal. But they need not-they shall not
perish In one heart at least, through the
changes Of life, these scenes will be imaged
and reflected so often as the mind shall turn
back to these well spent days, and to these
well remembered associates. May God in
his mercy return you all in safety to green
fields and happy abodes.
In the speeches made upon the resolution
of thanks to Col Bullock the remarks of
Caleb Gushing were noteworthy. He said
that, with all her faults-and he only told Of
them at home-he claimed Tor Massachusetts
the most enlightened, moral, industrious, law
abiding position Of any state in the Union-a
model of republican institutions. Many of
his sentiments were very strongly applauded.
AT the afternoon session the following bills
among others were passed to be enacted:-
In addition to an act concerning the militia
in relation to banks surrendering their char
tiers upon becoming banking associations I'M
der the laws of the United States; concern
ing usury; the Old Colony and Fall River
railroad company; to levy a tax on the stock
of corporations held by persons whose resi-
dence is out Of this commonwealth; in addi-
ton to an act to define and regulate the en-
forcement of the liabilities of officers and
stockholders of manufacturing corporations;
requiring corporations to make returns to the
assessors of cities and towns.