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317 your confidence and esteem by a faithful and impartial performance of the various duties devolving upon me and by an unremitting exertion to facilitate the public Business and to place every subject before you in a proper and acceptable manner. It is a matter of pride and satisfaction that my labors have been rewarded by this very flattering testimonial of the Representatives of the People. A Spirit of frankness will compel me to acknowledge my errors, and for excuse I must refer you to my inexperience which was known to you at the Time of my Election. I am fully sensible how much must be attributed to your friendly aid and support for every measure of Success which has attended my efforts, and for your indulgence on all occasions I tender you individually my most unfeigned acknowledgements. If during our association and while passing upon a great variety of subjects of general Interest and importance, any differences of opinion have existed among us, as the hour of Separation approaches I trust every vestige of unkindness will be effaced from our memories and that we shall return to our respective homes with feelings of mutual regard and respect. It is with pleasure that I bear testimony to the industry and zeal with which you have devoted yourselves to the transaction of the great variety of Public and local Business which has been presented to the consideration of the present Legislature, to the fidelity, and constancy with which you have sought to promote the public good and to the unanimity and harmony which have characterized your deliberations. May we not confidently hope that the measures we have adopted and the motives by which we have been actuated will receive the approving voice of the People whose right it is to scrutinize the doings of their servants. I flatter myself that the circumstances under which we are to separate are no less pleasing and satisfactory than those under which we were convened. In reviewing the condition of our country, there is "much of hope" and " nothing of fear". The recent events which have transpired at Washington