The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-05-09

VMldn which yOu hnyp Wlihittd in
those lnllB M thp nfdUn4 mlllo scr.
vice, pmr presiding milcrr icsllllts
Win earnest and honest pride.
We ~ hence t0Riyc un account "
our sicwnfdsliipa. May you meet With
the response from the hcnftH aud the
Judgement Of the people, "Wcll done,
thou good and faithful servants"
For the generous support which you
have always extended me officially,
aud for the personal friendships which
bind me to every senator and officer OF
this body, ] thank you from q heart
full Of gratitude. Some of us may not
meet again In the councils of state, and
pcrchancc some Of MS never more may
meet in the thronglng pathways OF life;
but, whatever may be our fortunes, we
shall all together, irrespective OF party
creeds or sectional lines, living or dy-
ing, cherish Il common devotion to the
honor and glory of our beloved Texas
now declare the first session of the
fourteenth legislature adjourned sine
die.
In the house, resolutions of thanks to
Hon. Guy NJ. Bryan, speaker, Rev.
John L. Hillyer, chaplain and w. c..
Walsh, chief clerk were passed, after
which the speaker delivered the fol-
lowing valedictory address:
Gentlemen Of Hc House OF Represent
utiUcs--In response to your resolution
of generous confidence and good feel
ing, it is appropriate for me to say that
/ have faithfully tried to deserve both.
If have failed in u single instance to
Judgment and not of intention.
| have the kindest personal regard
for each and every member on
this floor, and | can most faithfully
say, towards no one do harhor one UNI
kind thought or feeling.
have not in q single instance know
ingly ruled or decided in reference to
personal feeling. nave conscien-
tiously tried to do my whole duty. l
have not been absent from this house
u day, and | have given my whole
time to the discharge of my official OBJ
legations.
I thank you, gentlemen, and the
clerks and officers OF this house, for
your uniform, kind and considerable
treatment.
have never been associated with q
more honest, laborious and patriotic
Legislative body, and it will be my de-
light to meet with you here again next
session.
On the thirteenth day of last January
we met in this hall for the first time.
The government then was in the hands
of those who refused to relinquish 1t,
But by prudence, firmness and for.
bearance, representative government
was reestablishei, and the chosen Off
GERS of the people were installed.
When you return to your constituent
cies, remind them of this, and point to
the condition of our neighbors, Louisi-
ana and Arkansas, and tell them "to
make haste slowly' in organic chang.
es, for it is easier to pull down than to
rebuild. Your difficulties have been
numerous and hard to surmount--with
empty treasury, heavy indebtedness,
deranged departments, etc. Difficult
ties, all of which you have not over
come, but with which, at the next ses-
sion, you will be better prepared to
grapple. Then, j hope, you will be
able to lay the capstone of reform.
! If you have not achieved all that was
expected, you haved one much to merit
the confidence of the people. And we
ask them to be generous and discrimi-
mating in their judgment and to let
time prove the efficacy of our acts.
Gentlemen, may glad faces and
bright eyes greet you on your return to
your homes. We part now rs friends;
we will meet hereafter as brothers.
May God bless, protect and have you
in His holy keeping.
The chaplain closed with prayer,
when the speaker announced the house
adjourned until the second Tuesday in
January, 1875.