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, people your blunder has brought me among. tion, willingly assented to it, and Harriet co ip

so looked surprised, but presum-1 1 feel excessively mortified." 'roenccd ber labours. As she advanced 111 them, in acquaintance of Mrs. Brooke's,! "AVelL, my dear aunt, I have reason to be the responsibility the had assumed produced a

quite as much so. Miss Konaluson was thrown: salutary enect on her own mmd, ana she oe-

Mrs. Silsbe

mg her to be an acquaintance

"Ah! here are some ice-creams, I hope tncy j in my way; and though sne is a preuy nuie came tiiougntiui ana prucent as even nermomnrvy provo reHshable, as thev are my favorite j girl, I should never have waited on her as 1 did, j cr could desire. At length, from being considrsfresbatcnt;" said Mrs. Brooke. . ! had I not been under such a confounded mis-1 ered only as a pretty, sprightly and graceful "cTtjgy are' 0f Miss Ronaldson's own maker j take. I thought I might gel on Middleton's girl, she was reputed one of sense and superior returned Mrs. Havijset. 1 right side by attention to his niece. There is moral worth; and in little more than two years ' The ladies were helped, and Mrs. Brooke, j not a better name in the city than his to have ; after the incidents we tave commemorated, to aid Ji.-s. Sibbee, after each bad had a taste. ; cn a note. Niece ornot, he seems to think a', the great delight of her friends, she became let their spoons drop, and exchanged looks of j.0od deal of her." jthe wife of the excellent and respected Mr. a uct ! ' But were vou never in the house before ? . Middleton.

Mercy on usP exclaimed Mrs. Haverset, You might have seen how they Uvea. vny,

the verv lamuj and carpets are uorroweu, tLAi a ALtuiLiuui.

were all the things mat were oroKen. i hcrsday, March, 31, lMZ. Alter several

' Not possible! but this is the first time I , reports from committees on private claims, and

have ever entered the door. On escorting the ordering two or three private bills to be engros-

vounlady home.it was alw ays too late tocome sed

in, and when I called in the morning, she al- Mr. Clay said (as imperfectly heard in the

ways happened to bs out. The exterior is ( Reporter's galleries) that, before proceeding to genteel enough, however." $- ' make the motion for which lie had risen, he

' Well, row that vou know what they are, begged leave to submit, on the only occasion

and what sort of society they have bien accus- afforded him, an observation or two on a differ

tcmed to, you can cut the girl's acquaintance ent subject. It would be remembered that he

'Oh one can't expect to get the best of ser- your wedding engagements are over.I suppose; had offered on a former day some resolutions

vants at half a dollar a night," said Mrs. Haver-jaad I shall do so forthwith. But do go and see going to purpose certain amendments in the

pet. about the carriage, I am quite nervous." ' Constitution of the United States; they bad un

done here, Sarah Elizabsth ! come here. The carriage had come, and Mr. Egerton dergone some discussion, and he had tccn de

prove a Vain hope) that at the regular session disordered currency reflated ni . ..

me measures wnicn wenaa ten unaone mignt and irregular exchanges eaualiV . "wrca even then be perfected, or the same object at- if to na. labored m JLi!, v ? cdand adJusted;

tained in an equivalent form, induced me to postpone the determination; and events which

on usP exclaimed Mrs. Haverset,

''it is as salt as brine 1 those two heedless hoys have 1st the salt ice get into it, and mined it entirely." ' Very little else could be expetced of such servants, judging from their appearance," said .Mrs. Silsbee. I asked the man, a while ago, for a glasj of water, and after I had repeated it a dozen of times to make him understand, he nra.2 back and said there were no oranges left.

I wonder that any one would depend upon a

deaf servant at such a time

arose alter the extra session, resulting from the failure of those measures which had been

postponed at that session, and which appeared to throw on our political friends a temporary show of defeat, confirmed me in the resolution to attend the nresent session also, whether in

nrosDcritv or adversity, to share the fortune of i .v:i. .v. i. : ' "u,"ns; if

r r ' . . w mist me iiuuiiu iiuuur is preserved nni,: i mv friends. But I resolved at the same time ... i. 1 "ntarnish-

to retire as soon as I could do so with propriety i

and decency.

From 1806, the period of my entry on this j

noble theatre, with short intervals, to the present time, I have been engaged in the public

councils, at borne or abroad. Ofsthe nature or the value of the services rendered during that

long and arduous period of my life it does not

become me to speak; histoiy, if she deigns tc notice me, if the recollection of my humble ac

love.!" called Mrs. Brooke to her daughter,wha j

was ruaniug across the room spitting and grimacing, with her saucer iu her hand; but Sarah Eiizabath, bent upon getting rid of her ice- - cream, paid no attention, and ran agai'ist Jerry, who, with his loaded waiter, was passing bet veen the folding doors. The boy, careless as

the chili, turned to look what had occasioned the shock, moving forward at the same time; and in doing so, his foot caught in the half-fas-tened carpel, and he was precipitated, with his burthen, upon the floor. "Mv cut glass! my beautiful cut glass I" al

most screamed Mrs. Haverset, who, unpractic-

ed in fashionable self-possession, forgot, at a loss of such magnitude, to restrain her feelings; and several young ladies who chanced to be in the way, jumped aside with loud ejaculations, and drew their dresses around them, to avoid the splashing of the sloppy ice-cream and halfformed jelly. "Every article of it is broken, and I suppose there is no chance of its ever being replaced," continued Mrs. Haverset. standing up to survey the ruins. Mrs. Silsbee offered a word of consolation, after having been particular to discover that it was all borrowed, and remarked "the carpets

conducted his aunt from the room, neither of sirousof obtaining an expression of the sense of

mem having perceived mai mue copny nun-, me senate upon tneir aaopucn; out owing m

aldson was sitting on a cricket at the end of the the infirm state of his health, to the pressure of

sofa. She had been permitted by her sister to business in the Senate, and especially to me remain in the parlour, on condition that she absenceat this moment of several of his friends,

would keep her seat; and having heard the he had concluded this to be unnecessary; nor

commencement of the dialogue, was too mnch ' should he deem himself called upon to reply

frightened to show herself. ( to the arguments of such gentlemen as had con-

Mrs. Silsbee's departure broke up the com-'sidered it their duty to oppose the resolutions,

pany, few of whom had had more enjoyment He should .'commit the subject, therefore, to than that ladv herself: and Harriet, having dis-: the hands ofthe Senate, to be disposed of as

charged her servants, hastened, wearied and! their judgment should dictate: concluding what

dispirited, to her mother's room Mrs. Konaia- he had to say in relation to tnem wuu me re son had been informed bv Hannah of the vari-; mark, that the convictions he had before en

ons disasters of the nisht. but forbore to ask! tertained in regard to the several amendments,

any questions, and advised her daughter to re-, he still deliberately held, after all that he had

tire to rest. She accordingly retirea to ner.neara upon me sunjectsoi mem

room. and. whilst undressing, received from And now, said Mr. C, allow me to announce,

Sophy a full repetition of the conversation she formally and officially, my retirement from the

had overheard between Egerton and his aunt. , Senate of the L nited States, and to present t

This was the unkindest cut of all; and poor Har-1 last motion I shall ever make in this body. But,

riet after sending the child to bed, crept into ; before II make that motion, I trust I shall be

her own weeping as if her heart would break. pardoned if I avail myself of the occasion to She could not get a moment's sleep the whole ; make a few observations which arc suggested

will h iniured verv much, and that IS such a haiior Mro l?nnnlion wrote a note to

consniruons nlaee!"' Iciinrr th Harriot ivmilil he unable tO TGs

"Yes," replied Mrs. Haverset; "and what is i j,er services. Julia stopped the nexi day

night, and in the morning had a high lever. Her mother, in alarm, sent for a physician, who pronounced it the effect of over-excitement; and fining, towards evening, that she grew no

Julia.

ume

the worst of it, they are borrowed carpets."

"Borrowed carpets!" ' "Yes ma'am; Mrs. Gillingham lent them for the night, and I suppose she will be 6orry enough for it. If it had been Mrs. Ronaldson's old faded ones, it would not have mattered so much; bat that is the way; when people who have not the means, attempt to make a show, their friends must be the sufferers. I wonder that Mrs. Ronaldson would ever pretend to give a party." "She is, then, in restricted circumstances?" Slid Mrs. Silsbee.

"She has little enough for the necessaries of

life." -But it is singular that, on such an occasion, Mr. Middleton should not have assisted her." "Mr. Middleton! he gave them their wine, and he could not be expected to do more. I thought that very kind in him." "But considering he is so near a relation. He is Mrs. Ronaldson's brother, is he not?" "Not the least connexion in the world he only rents a room of her," replied Mrs. Haverset; and too much vexed and grieved to enjoy any thing more, even the conversation of such important personages as Mesdames Brooke and

Silsbee, she made her exit. Harriet followed her, and, with tears in her eyes, bewailed the accident; but Mrs. Haverset was toomuch soured by her loss to reply civilly, and prudently walked into the kitchen tolookafter her spoons before leaving the house, having lent a supply. Harriet assisted her; and after examining the collection, a set of very handsome ones was missing. Hannah was called for, having a few minutes before left her post as guard, to attend to the sick girl up stairs, but could give r.o intelligence of them. Joe and Jerry, on coming out from the parlours, where they were clear

ing the carpets, were questioned with no better

success; but Dick remembered having seen Dorinda, the new coloured girl, handling the things on the table after Hannah had left it. Dorinda accordinsly was sought for, but had disappeared from the house. "Oh. the wretch! the thieving black wretch!

she has stolen my spoons my elegant tea-

spoo.is, that cost twenty dollars a dozen!" cried

Mrs. Haverset, nearly in hysterics from this additional misfortune; and Harriet, scarcely less agitated, could offer her no comfort. "After Mrs. Haverset had left the room, Mrs. Brooke had found it necessary, on Sarah Elizabeth's account, to retire also, and Mrs. Silsbee

was left in possession of the sofa. She beckon-1 ed to her nephew, who happened to come near, and inquired how late it was. "Within a few minutes of the time at which you ordered the carriage," he replied. "Th ink heaven!" said Mrs. Silsbee. "I am literally almost starved; I have got nothing fit to eat the whole evening, excent a mararnm.

and a piece of candied orange, Did you ever see such a miserable entertainment?" "Wrethed enough," returned Mr. Egerton, seating himself beside her; "but the wines were capital, though." "Yes Mr. Middleton's pockets supplied them; but how under the sun, Silsbee, did you happen to tell me that he was the uncle of this Miss Ronaldson?" "Why, I either heard it, or conjectured it from circumstances. I have met him in hnt

attending to business for her mother: h

in the house, and this evening he has been do-j

to my mind by the present occasion

I entered the Senate of the United States in

December, 1806. I regarded that body then.

land still contemplate it, as a body which may

compare, without disadvantage, with any legis

lative assembly, either of ancient or modern

in 2 J limes, whether I look to its dignity, the extent

carriage to ask how she was, but did not even ana ii;:-ortu:!ce oi its powers, or me aDiiny Dy

express a wish to 6ee her; and Sophy told her i which its individual mentoers

sister that she had heard one of the larger girls

in the school say, Mrs. Waterford Gray was quite offended because Miss Ronaldson, afterj going about so much with her as bridesmaid, had put herself to so little trouble and expense in getting up a party for her. Harriet's indisposition lasted a week, during which time most of those who had attended her party, left their cards. Mrs. Silsbee and Mr. Egerton, however, were not of the number. Mrs. Gillingham came regularly every

day to see her, and, with delicacy, forbore to make any allusion to the cause of her illness, until Harriet herself was able to talk about her many failures. She was then loud in her exclamations against the Silsbees.

''After an." said she. "I am glad it is no

worse. If you had been foolish enough to heed

all the nonsense I said to vou. I would have

had you over head and ears in love with that young coxcomb. But I thought he was altogether a different kind of person; and from valuing you so highly myself, I was certain he

could not help admiring you. As to the presents I attributed to him, I discovered yesterday who they really came from. I was at the

green-house buying some plants, when I thou't

of asking who had purchased that elegant bouquet you received the evening of the wedding;

and after I had described it, the people remembered that it had been bought by Mr. Middleton. I met him afterwards and taxed him with it, and also with sending the annuals, and he

acknowledged to both. The valentine, of course, was merely done for a joke. It is real

ly worth while to receive such marks of friend

ship from a person like Mr. Middleton; I never

was more agreeably surprised m my life by any

one. lie provea nimsen, me oiner nigni,

quite elegant in his manners, as well as inter

esting.

if to hare labored to replenishp

of the Treasury by suitable duties; if Mohave endeavored to extend relief to the unfortunate bankrupts of the country, who had been ruinrf in a great measure by the erroneous policy I we believe of this Government; if to " limit, circumscribe, and restrain Executive au thority.if to retrench unnecessary expenditure

ouu ulh-'iicu uriirs unices alia ins

4?d hv fiimnlvin

. rr i --t-Muaie to meet

tne national engagements, incidental protec tion can be afforded to the natisnal industry- if to entertain an ardent solicitude to redeem every pledge and execute every premise fairlv made by my political friends with a view t0 the acquisition of power from the hands of an honest and confiding People; if these ohiPM

. um constitute a man a Dictator, why, then, I mt deigns to pose i must conteiU , bear although I i!i umbleac-l j . b 1 M

become me to speak; histoiy, if she

umDle ac onlv share with mv frion1c ttio;.,. ..

tions shall be transmitted to posterity, are the honor ofthe cnilhe, as it . p "

ing the honours

be so."

like a near relation. He must

"He is no such thing. I have a notion never to forgive you, Silsbee Egerton, for misleading me so. He merely hires a room from them. I knew that Mr. Middleton was rich and of good family, and was expected to remain single for life; and seeing that you were disposed to be

uouuTCioraimttomuoaon, I thought I could

Harriet herself introduced the subject of her

mishaps and miscalculations to her mother, and

commented upon her own conduct with the utmost ingenuousness. She also made a close estimate of the expenses her ignorance and want of thought had led her into, and presented it tojber inspection. "You have forgotten," said Mrs. Ronaldson, "to add the value of the articles belonging to Mrs. Haverset, which were broken and lost. It must be correctly ascertained, and the amount

discharged. I could not think of remaining indebted to a person of her character, and had no idea that you were putting yourself under so

many obligations to her."

"I have formed a plan during my illness,"

said Harriet, "by which, if you think me qual

ified to execute it, I may be able to repair all the loss my mistakes have been to you. You

know, mamma, that the children the three girls, are at the end of a quarter at school; and by keeping them at home and instructing them myself, for which I have sufficient time, I will

be enabled, in a year or two, to save the full &

mount. Sophy's bills for music and French

would, in less than that lime, pay Mrs. Haver

set; and their day-school expenses could go for

the other things. I believe ycu were satisfied

with the use I made of my time while my les

sons were going on, and I think, if you could

trust me, the children would not be losers.

Mrs. Ronaldson did not object, but required

a day or two to deliberate about the matterjand, in the mean time, Harriet having come down

6tairs, Mr. Middleton took advantage of her

first appearance to make her a visit. From Ins

commiseration of her, and Harriet's gratitude for the efforts he had made to assist and relieve

her during the memorable trials of her party, a feeling of kindness sprang ud between them,

as Mrs. Gillingham remarked, "quite uncle and

niece line."

have been dis

linguished, or its constitution, ii compared in

any of these respects with the Senates either ut

France or England, that of the United States will sustain no derogation. With respect to

the mode of its constitution, of those bodies I may observe that in the House of Peers in England, with the exceptions but of Ireland and Scotland and in that of France.with no excep

tion whatever the members hold their places under no delegated authority, but derive them from the grant of the Crown, transmitted by descent, or expressed in new patents of nobili

ty; while here we have the proud title of Representatives of sovereign States, of distinct and independent Commonwealths. If we look again at the powers exercised by

the Senates of France and England, and by the Senate ofthe United States, we shall find that the aggregate of power is much greater here.

In all, the members possess the legislative pow

er, in the loreign senates, as in this, the ju

dicial power is invested, although there .it exists in a larger degree than here. But, on the

other hand, that vast, undefined, and undefinable "power involved in the right to co-operate

with the Executive in the formation and ratifi

cation of treaties, is enjoyed in all its magni tude and weight by this bod while it is pos

sessedby neither of theirs: besides which,there

is another of very great practical importance that of sharing with the Executive branch in distributing the vast patronage of this Govern

ment. In both these latter respects, we stand on grounds different from the House of Peers either of England or France. And then as to the dignity and decorum of its proceedings, and ordinarily as to the ability of its membersj can with great truth declare that, during the whole long period of my knowledge of this Senate it

can, without arroganceor presumption, sustain j no disadvantageous comparison with any pub-, lie body in ancient or modern times. ! Full of attraction, however, as a seat in this

Senate is, sufficient as it is to fill the aspirations of the most ambitious heart, I have long determined to forego it, and to seek the repose

which can be enjoyed only in the shades of private life,and amid the calm pleasures which belong to that beloved word, "home."

It was my purpose to terminate my connec

tion with this body in November, 1840, after

the memorable and glorious political struggle which distinguished that year, but I learned, soon after, what (indeed I had for some time

anticipated from the result of my own reflections, that an extra session of Congress would

be called; and I felt desirous to co-operate with

my political and personal friends in restoring, if

it could be effected, the prosperity of the country by the best measures which their united counsels might be able to devise; and I therefore attended the extra session. It was called all know, by the lamented Harrison; but his

death and the consequent accession of his suc

cessor produced an entirely new aspect of public affairs. Had he lived, I have not one par

ticle of doubt that every important measure for which the country had hoped with so confident

an expectation would have been consummated

by the co-operation ofthe Executive branch of

the Government. And here allow me to say,

only, in regard to that so much-reproached ex

tra session of Congress, that I believe if any of

those who, through the influence of party spirit or the bias of political prejudice, have loudly censured the measures then adopted, will look at them in a spirit of candor and of justice.their conculsion, and that of the country generally,

will be that if there exists any just ground of complaint,it is to be found not in what was done, but in what was left undone.

Had President Harrison lived, and the meas

ures devised at that session been fully carried

best, the truest and the most impartial judges.

When death has closed the scene, their sen

tence will be pronounced, and to that I appeal

and refer myself. My acts and public conduct are a fair subject for the criticism and judgment of my fellow-men; but the private motives by

which they have been prompted are known on

ly to the great Searcher of the human heart and

to myself; and I trust I may be pardoned for re

peating a declaration made some thirty years ago, that, whatever errors and doubtless there have been many may be discovered in a re

view of my public service to my country, I can

with unshaken confidence appeal to that Divine arbiter for the truth of the declaration that I

have been influenced by no impure purpose,no

personal motive have sought no personal ag

grandizement, but that in all my public acts I have had a sole and single eye, and a warm and

devoted heart, directed and dedicated to what,

in my best judgement, I believed to be the true interests of my country. Dnring that long period.however, I have not escaped the fate of other public men, nor failed to incur censure and detraction of the bitterest,

most unrelenting, and most malignant charac

ter; and though not always insensible to the pain it was meant to inflict, I have borne it in

general with composure, and without distur

bance here, pointing to his breast, waiting as I have done, in perfect and undoubting confidence, for the ultimate triumph of justice and truth, and in the entire persuasion that time would, in the end, settle all things as they should be, and that whatever wrong or injustice I might experience at the hands of men, He to whom all hearts are open and fully known,

would in the end, by the inscrutable dispensa

tions of His providence, rectify all error, ad

J'ess all wrong, and cause ample justice to be

done. But I have not meanwhile been unsustained.

Every where throughout the extent of this great continent I have had cordial, warmhearted, and devoted friends, who have known me and appreciated my motives. To them, if language were susceptible of fully expressing my acknowledgments, I would now offer them as

all the return I have now to make for their gen

uine, disinterested, and persevering fidelity and devoted attachment. But if I fail in suitable language to express my gratitude to them

for all the kindness they have shown me what shall I say what can I say at all commensurate with those feelings of gratitude which I owe to the State whose humble representative

and servant 1 have been in this Chamber? Here Mr. C's feelings appeared to overpower

him, and he proceeded with deep sensibility and with difficult utterance.

I emigrated from Virginia to the State of

Kentucky now nearly forty-five years ago:

went as an orphan who had not yet attained the

age of majority who had never recognized a father's smile, nor felt his caresses poor

pennyless without the favor of the great

with an imperfect inadequate education, lim

ited to the ordinary business and common pur

suits of life; but scarce had I set my foot upon

her generous soil when I was seized and em

braced with parental fondness, caressed as tho'

I had been a favorite child, and patronized with liberal and unbounded munificence. From

that period the highest honors of the State

have been freely bestowed upon me; and afterward, in the darkest hour of calumny and de

traction, when I seemed to be forsaken by all

the rest of the world, she threw her broad and

no less than to show, her some civility for,' 'Mr Ronaldson, concluding that her daugh-'out,it was my intention then to have resigned your sake, and now seewjtaiiutre set of, t'epr0?03" upon sober reflcc4my se!. But, the hope (I feared it jnight

impenetrable shield around me, and bearing

me up aloft in her courageous arms, repelled

the poisoned shafts that were aimed at my de

struction, and vindicated my good name from

every false and unfounded assault

But the ingenuity of my assailants is never exhausted, and it seems I have subjected my

self to a new epithet; which I no not know

whether it should be taken in honor or deroga

tion: I am held up to the country as a"dictator.:

A dictator! The idea of a dictatorship is drawn from Roman institutions; and at the time the office was created, a person who wielded the

tremendous weight cf authority it conferred

concentrated in his own person an absolute

power over the lives and property of all his

fellow-citizens; he could raise armies; he could

build and man navies; he could levy taxes at will, and raise any amount of revenue he might

choose to demand; and life and death rested on

his fiat. If I had been a dictator, as I am said

to have been, where is the power with which

I was clothed? Had I any army7 any navy? any revenue? any patronage? in a word, any ! power whatever? If I had been a dictator, I think that even those who have most freely applied to me the appellation, must be compelled to make two admissions: first, that my dictatorship has been distinguished by no cruel executions, stained by no blood, nor soiled by any act of dishonor; and, in the second place, I think they must own (though I do not exactly know what date my commission bears I imagine, however, it must have commenced with the extra session) that if I did usurp the power

of a dictator I at least voluntarily surrendered it within a shorter period than was allotted for the duration of the dictatorship of the Roman Commonwealth.

If to have sought, at the extra session and at

the present, by the co-operation of my friends,

to carry out the great measures intended by the popular majority of 1840, and to have desired

that thev should all have been adopted and ex

ecuted; if to have anxiously desired to eee a

on the one hand or the other.

That my nature is warm, my temper ardMf

my disposition, especially in relation to the public sen ice, enthusiastic, I am fully ready to own; and those w ho suppose that I have been assuming the dictatorship have enly mistaken

for arrogance or assumption that fervent aider and devotion which is natural to my constitution, and which I may have displaved with too little regard to cool, calculating, and cautious prudence, in sustaining and zealously supporting important national measures of policy which I have presented and proposed. During a long aud ardous career of service in the public councils of my country, especially during the last eleven years I have held a seat in the Senate, from the same ardor and enthusiasm of character, I have no doubt, in the heat of debate, and in an honest endeavor

to maintain my opinions against adverse opin

ions equally honestly entertained, as the test course to be adopted for the public welfare. I

may have often advertantly or unintentionally, in moments of excited debate, made use of language that has been offensive, and susceptible of injurious interpretation towards my broiher Senators. If there be any here who retain wounded feelings of injury or dissatisfaction produced on such occasions, I beg to assure them that I now offer the amplest apology for any departure on my part from the established rules of parliamentary decorum and courtesy. On the other hand I assure the Senators, me and all, without exception and without reserve, that I retire from this Senate Chamterwiihout carrying w ith me a single feeling of resentment or dissatisfaction to the Senate or any one of its members. I go from this place under the hope that we shall, mutually consign to perpetual oblivion

whatever personal collision may at any time unfortunately have occurred between us; and

that onr recollections 6hall dwell in future on

ly on those conflicts of mind with mind, those intellectual struggles, those noble exhibitions ofthe power of logic, argument and eloquence, honorable to the Senate and to the country, in

which each has sought and contended for wnai

he deemed the best mode of accomplishing one common object, the greatest interest and the

most happiness of our beloved country, lo

these thrilling and delightful scenes it willbe my pleasure and my pride to look back in my

retirement.

And now, Mr. President, allow me to make

the motion which it was my object to submit

when I rose to address you. I present the credentials of my friend and successor. If any

void has been created by my own withdrawal from the Senate, it will be filled to overflowing by him, whose urbanity, whose gallant and

gentlemanly bearing, whose steady adherence to principle, and whose rare and accompliseed

powers in debate are known already in advance

to the whole Senate and the country, l move

that his credentials be received, and that the oath of office be now administered to him..

In retiring, as I am about to do, forever, from

the Senate, suffer me to express my heartfelt

wishes that all the great and patriotic onjecis

for which it was constructed by the wise ramers of our Constitution may be fulfilled; uat

the high destiny designed for it may be muy answered; and that its deliberations, now and hereafter, may eventuate in restoring the pn perity of our beloved country ,in maintaining i rights and honor abroad, and in securing and uphalding its interest at home. I retire.l Lno it, at a period of infinite distress and embarrassment. I wish I could take my leave of yot under more favorable auspices; but, witno! meaning at this time to say whether on any or on whom reproaches for the sad condiwn ci the country should fall, I appeal to the Senate onJ s. V,o n-,-11 fr lipar tpslimonV 10 n)V eal"

nest and anxious exertions to avert it and thai

May the blessing of Heaven rest upon the

whole Senate and each memcer oi i, , the labors of every one redound to the bew of the nation and the advancement of his fame and renown. And when you shall w (mho hnotm f vour constituents, may ,

. .. . A : nratifvinffWH

meet mat niusi cneenug & x.-ej human rewards their cardial greetings - . - M

done, good and laimiui seryau.. ,

And now, Messrs. ITesiaeni aim uia vnn lonir. a lasting, aud a friendly

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w" . - . . . ,. mi:

Mr. Crittenden was then amy quaimo, -

took his seat: when

Mr. Preston rose and said: what had just ken place, was an epoch in their legislative

tory, and from the feeling wnicn ;

he plainly saw that there was nuic ... j u ,o,iln therefore

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that the Senate adjourn; uicu unanimously agreed to.

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write poetry, wnen auer a uj - -brought forth the following: "I love to see the waving grass, Just before the mower mows it; I love to see an old dray horse, For when he goes he goes it.

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