The daily gazette., 1877-03-05
THIRD EDITION {!
The Closing Scene.
RANDALL'S VALEDIC
~ % TORY. e.l .7-aI

In the House of Representatives Oh
Sunday, when the hands of the clock d.
al indicated Eve minutes before noon, and
when 1t was physical impossibility to
conclude the call, the Speaker interrupt
ed it, rose and delivered his valedictory
as follows:
Gentlemen of the House of Representa-
The Speakership, always responsible, anx-
ious and full of embarrassments, has at
this season imposed unusual and vexa-
tious burdens. have discharged the du-
ties of the high position with unfaltering
confidence in the candor and fairness Of
of the House, and resolute purpose to
do the right at every hazard. For the
first time in many years democratic
House of Representatives has occupied
this hall and responded with uptiring in
dustry to the universal sentiment for re-
form in the government and the re-estab-
lishment Of peace throughout the Repub-
lie. Fraud and corruption have been ex-
posed and made odious; the expenditures
of the administration have been enor-
mously reduced; no new taxes have been
levied, and every description of undue ap-
preparation of the public money has been
prevented. In this regard this House has
met the public demand and expectation,
| In respect to political events, the ses-
sion has been one of the most critical in
our history.-The majority in this Honse
representing majority of all votes in the
Union, and as we believe and know, q
majorits of electors duly chosen at the re-
cent election for President ond Vice-Pres-
ident, has been made tn choose between
acquiescence in usurpation or reaching
the right through civil commotion. The
democratic party yielded temporary pos
session of the administration rather than
entail upon the people civil war with all
its attendant horrors. There are some
who will condemn the submission we
have given to the results of law which
was neither administered in the spirit Of
its creation. nor as we believe according
to the letter of its provisions. We have
done all this in preference to the danger
of anarchy and bloodshed. Time will
surely remedy these wrongs, for there is
, in the American mind desire to do jus
: tice. We must await that remedy. 1t
must come, impatient as we shall be fol
its arrival.
Until then we demand, as we have the
right to demand, the reign of equal jus
ltice; that the sword shall cease to strike
prostrate the governments of States; that
the civil shall be superior to the military
) rule, and that the people shall be freed
now and forever from the shackles of re.
, cent misgovernment.
sincerely thank you, one and all, for
, your parting words of approval, and wit
the wish that each and every membel
, may safely return to his home, it only re
mains for me to declare that the consttu
tional limitation of the forty-fourth Con-
, gress has been reached, and that this
{ House stands adjourned without day.
: ROUNDS OF APPLAUSE.
As the Speaker closed all the member
: rose to their feet, and from the gallerie
:, came cheers and rounds Of applause. TheI
! came the scenes of leave-taking, and il
Q half an hour the hall, so lately the scene
2 of so much tumult, passion and excite
= = ment, was deserted and silent, and thu:
T closed the forty fourth Congress,