Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-02-28

mitted to public judgment. We may have
made mistakes, but l entertain the hope that
our course will be adjudged generally wise,
straightforward and 'sfor the benefit of the
people of the State" / desire to say here
that our Secretary has been most efficient;
that his Assistant Secretary, Reporter, the
Messengers, and lively Page, have performed
well their parts.
Mr.. LANE of Cumberland said
Mr.. SECRETARY I cordially support the
resolution presented by my esteemed friend,
the Senator from Lincoln. fully coincide
with his statements. We can all bear witness
to the uniform kindness, courtesy and impair
TALLY of our presiding officer. His prompt
ness in the dispatch of business, his untiring
patience and great goodness of heart have
created eonstan: good feeling and hearty
good will among us all. For this, and also
for many kind words and acts conferred upon
me personally, desire to thank him. hope
his future life will be as happy and prosper
Gus as he has made ours pleasant during our
association here.
The session has been short, very busy, and
marked by great unanimity Of action. How
well we have done our work. the future must
determine. If the results of our actions are
as beneficial as our intentions have been good,
| am sure the verdict of those who sent us
here will be, "well done, faithful servants"
Mr.. NORRIS of Cumberland said Il wish
to express my thanks to the President, sub
ordinate officers and to every Senator, for the
unvarying kindness and courtesy which has
marked our intercourse from the commence
ment to the closing hour of the session.
With the assurance that shall remember
you with deep interest, rejoicing in your pros
perity and sympathzing with you in adversely
am prompted by the deep warnings ofmy own
heart for human love and sympathy, to express
the hope that in the days and years to come l
may not be wholly forgotten by you.
l Mr.. vosE of Waldo said:
Mr.. SECRETARY: / can do no less than re-
echo the sentiments of those Senators who
have preceded me and do justice to my feel
ings.
The pleasures of association are among our
greatest blessings. And the association of
intelligent minds to consider and provide for
the public good will, by the aid of memory
add to our stock of pleasures through life,
its degree TO be measured by the conscious
ness of duty done.
My high appreciation of the honest manli-
ness of him who so successfully presided over
our deliberations in this chamber. the warm
and generous impulses of my associates at
| this board, and the efficiency and kindness of
| those officers assisting US in the discharge Of
our duties, is not to be estimated by words at
whether fortune smiles or frowns upon me,
the latch string of my door will be found on
the outside, and the friendly hand of me and
mine inside to give them welcome at all times.
Mr.. FRENCH of Franklin said:
Mr.. SECRETARY: 1t is highly gratifying
to me to be able to join in these testimonials
of regard which through you are at this hour
tenderedto our presiding officer. The acquaint-
ances here made, our associations together,
and the esteem and confidence that has been
inspired in each other as some individual trial
of excellence of character has been developed,
will not be easily forgotten.
Coming from the different vocations and
ayocations that represent the thought and
industries of State, met we here as legisla-
tors, to care for the public good; to-day
we go out from this chamber as men to take
our places again in that citizenship wherein
we hold in alienable rights to watch the work
ings, and feel the effects of those laws which
we have helped to make, which will prove
the wisdom or the foolishness OF our acts.
We live in the midst of intense activities, and
is our privilege to witness some of those great
events that mark human progress from age to
age; when governments are overthrow en-
tirely to give place to better, or drift away
from the old land marks so far that new con-
situations are necessary to give expression to
to the will of the governed. 1t therefor be-
comes US as men of free state of the fore
most republic among the nations to study well
our thoughts and weigh well our actions be-
fore throwing them into the great scale of life
to tell upon human destinies. To-day we
close our labors here and go to our homes,
perhaps never all of us to join in such de-
alterations as called us to these halls, but
in the great business of life where men most
do meet may we be found acting well our
part wherever duty calls, that the remem-
brance of the past may be as happy as the
hope of the future is bright.
Mr.. Minor of Kennebec said
Mr.. SECRETARY l rise to express my
heartfelt approval of the resolution of thanks
to our worthy presiding officer, introduced by
the honorable Senator from Lincoln. The
hour has arrived when we, who have been
associated here together so pleasantly, must
say the farewell word and bid adieu to those
scenes which are filled with so many pleasant
memories; and in this hour there is a mingled
feeling of sadness and joy-sadness arising
from the thought that as we go hence from
this chamber to-day, in all human probability
we shall not all meet again together this side
OF Times rolling river, Joy at the thought
that we are to return to our own firesides
where loved ones eagerly wait for our coming.
The session now drawing to its close has
been unusually short, though the amount of
labor performed has been equal to- if not in
| excess of that of many of the longer sessions
of our predecessors. How we'll that work has
been performed, time only can determine but
we are willing to trust it in the hands of an
honest and intelligent constituency TO whom
we must answer fer our actions here; and of
this am satisfied, that each has endeavored
to discharge his duty to his own conscience
and to the best interest of the State. In our
deliberations upon important questions differ
ences of opinion have naturally arisen, but at
all times each has conceded to the other hon.
esty of purpose; and if in the heat of debate
any word may have fallen that seemed to
wound the tender seLsibilites of another, it
is forgotten at this parting hour, and to be re-
membered no more.
The benefciaries Of the States charity have
received at our hands that aid which humanity
prompts, consistent with the strictest econo-
my. Those measures the tendency of which
is to open and develop the vast resources of
this State, have met with that encouragement
from us which their Importance to our future
welfare imperatvely demand.
l know that the resolution of thanks will