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Monday January 27th 1834 | Monday January 27th 1834 | ||
Met according to adjournment | Met according to adjournment | ||
| − | Bill additional regulating the tolls on the Stillwater Canal and also extending the time for completing the same was taken up | + | Bill additional regulating the tolls on the Stillwater Canal and also extending the time for completeing [completing] the same was taken up read a second time and tommorow [tomorrow] at 11 o clock assigned for a third reading |
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| + | Mr. O'Brien of Machias rose in his place and said - The painfull duty devolves on me of announcing to this House, the solemn providence that has severed from us a highly valued member | ||
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The Hon. Mr. Cushman member from Winslow died at his lodgings this morning | The Hon. Mr. Cushman member from Winslow died at his lodgings this morning | ||
| − | His spirit has returned to him that gave it . The place that so recently knew him here will know him no more forever. He was one of the relics of another generation of men - one of the patriots of the Revolution that lingered among us a little behind their contemporaries. In that | + | |
| − | The voice of his fellow citizens has often called him to high and responsible places. His public acts are not only spread before the people of this State | + | His spirit has returned to him that gave it. The place that so recently knew him here will know him no more forever. He was one of the relics of another generation of men - one of the patriots of the Revolution that lingered among us a little behind their cotemporaries [contemporaries]. In that eventfull struggle, he was among the foremost. His then youthfull bosom was fearlessly bared to the bayonet of the enemy. He bears to his grave, honourable scars of that service |
| − | To public opinion, that most unerring of human tribunals I fearlessly leave | + | |
| + | The voice of his fellow citizens has often called him to high and responsible places. His public acts are not only spread before the people of this State but before the Nation | ||
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| + | To public opinion, that most unerring of human tribunals I fearlessly leave them | ||
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Monday January 27th 1834
Met according to adjournment
Bill additional regulating the tolls on the Stillwater Canal and also extending the time for completeing [completing] the same was taken up read a second time and tommorow [tomorrow] at 11 o clock assigned for a third reading
Mr. O'Brien of Machias rose in his place and said - The painfull duty devolves on me of announcing to this House, the solemn providence that has severed from us a highly valued member
The Hon. Mr. Cushman member from Winslow died at his lodgings this morning
His spirit has returned to him that gave it. The place that so recently knew him here will know him no more forever. He was one of the relics of another generation of men - one of the patriots of the Revolution that lingered among us a little behind their cotemporaries [contemporaries]. In that eventfull struggle, he was among the foremost. His then youthfull bosom was fearlessly bared to the bayonet of the enemy. He bears to his grave, honourable scars of that service
The voice of his fellow citizens has often called him to high and responsible places. His public acts are not only spread before the people of this State but before the Nation
To public opinion, that most unerring of human tribunals I fearlessly leave them