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324 length of time can obliterate. And now, as we are about to take our leave of each other, and to dissolve the important and interesting relations which have so long, and so happily subsisted between us, I cheerfully yield a tribute for respect, to the efficient exertion, the untiring industry, and sound intelligence which have eminently characterized all your deliberations. In the bosom of your constituents and with the families which are dear to you, may you become firmly strengthened in their affection and engage with renewed rigour in the arduous pursuits of active life. Unbiased by local attachments, may your exertions be directed to the public welfare, and contribute to the improvement of all our fellow citizens, in knowledge and virtue. When the friendship of this world shall cease to please, may the testimony of a good conscience be your support, and when time with you shall be no longer, may you then be submitted to the full enjoyment of a better world, there to associate with just men made perfect without interruption and without end. Gentlemen, the hour of separation is at hand, I leave with you my best wishes for your individual health and happiness.