The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-03-15
FAREWELL SPEECH
OF PRES. GARDNFB
ELOQUENT AND FORCEElu ~,
SPEECH OF PRESIDENT c-
SENATE.
WAS SADNESS IN SEPARATION
Lieutenant Governor Thinks That,
isIature Has Worked Not in Vain
For Betterment of State

Raleigh.-The views of President
Gardner, of the Senate, on the wo-,
of sessions just ended were eloouont,
and fOrcefully expressed in his rttI
speech accepting the silver service wv
the Senator's.
The speech follows:
This is one occasion in nv rfo
in which my real sentiments are CIV,
pressed and circumscribed by tho ~
ter poverty of words to express tbo
thoughts that arise from within
stand in this presence paralyzed 90 g
were with a deep sense of obligation
love and affection for each membor
of this Senate and the silver tokon
of your generous thoughtfulness will
forever serve in my home as a ner.
petual and personal tribute to vo,,
memories, and as l drink in these
goblets in the years that are to come
there shall go out from my heart
silent but spontaneous response IA
each of you and to the scattered forces
of our lives
1--WE leave in a few hours and ono
generation after another will assemble
in these halls as our successors IN
work for the upbuilding of our dear
Mother State, until on every hillside
and every valley, by seashore or noun.
tain brook, in the towns, counties and
villages there shall filter the human.
tiles, justice and social bettermen:
of this General Assembly. The water
is little too high for the mill TO
grind tonight and we are a little
too near our efforts to properly ap.
preciate the significance of the COR
structive work of this assembly, but
my sincere hope is that in the final
analysis of our services the verdict
OF posterity will be that we labored
not in vain for North Carolina.
"My association with you has been
so delightfully."- happy that l reluctant
Its dissolution, and standing with un-
covered head in this presence, | de-
clare to you with all the earnestnes5
at my command that there is fel
ing in my heart that after all we
are strongly yet securely linked with
each other in a common cause for
common good, and that our pulse
beats and heart throbs will be strik.
ing harmonies with the vital forces
of m emory and forcefully tugging
away at the final threads of our al
lection, and insinuating themselves
into the warm and gentle glow of the
sunset of undergraduates.
LET us here re-dedicate ourselves
and pledge each other that we will
henceforth love and serve North Car
Dina more devotedly, that we will
ever be mindful that bitterness and
passion may inf1ame the weak and
degenerate to violence, but that this
body of men will forever stand clean,
upright and wholesome for the com
mon good that underlies all difflcul'
ties of calling, class, party or creed
and which makes us all brethren, BE-
cause we are children of the same
God.
ITO nae there. is a genuine element
of sadness in this separation and the
pent-up emotions of my nature as
thank you and bid you farewell anu
God speed, are but the silent and III
definable expressions of one who deep
ly loves his friends, and of klnsnlP
with the race to which we belong, anu
in the immortal thronS
of Gods children.
"May your efforts, aims and aspH%
lions throughout life be covered Will
the blessings of tho Great Jehovah d
my earnest prayer as I bid you go0u
bye"