ready to award you honor or dishonor according as your deeds shall be. Partial friends are watching you with yearning hearts, deeply sympathising in your welfare.Wives and children are looking to some of you with an intensity of hope and love, and with a confident expectation, that you will discha ge your whole duty, that no words can express. Do not give to party what is meant for mankind. When occasion calls, rise superior to party interest, to party discipline, and to party dictation.-Be men, be patriots, be christians, be conscientious legislators. On occasions like these, let the higher law, an enlightened conscience, proudly triumph over party arrangements, and merge the partizan in the patriot. And, when your heads shall be silvered o'er with age, and the sunny faced boy you now dandle on your knees shall worthily occupy your place, a retrospect of the past will present no cause for repentance and reminiscences of this day and of this occasion, of this Patriarch and these elder brethren, and these now consecrated noviciates, will sweetly cluster in your memories, and stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance. My sons, my patriarchal blessing rest on you. Remember that the man who is diligent in his business shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mere men. And may the blessing of Heaven crown your life with happiness and lead you into the way of all truth and all duty, now and forever. [At the conclusion of Mr. LAWRENCE's remarks, the Senate adjourned.] |