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"Gentlemen of the House—Your labors are closed, but before I perform the last duty of the chair, and dissolve forever the official relation which has so long united us, accept my warmest thanks for the kindness and courtesy I have at all times officially and personally received from the members of the House. If my attempts to meet worthily the responsibilities resulting from this relation have deserved the approbation you have been pleased to-day to bestow upon them, I am largely indebted for my success to the continued co-operation of the members of the House, and the efficient services of its able clerk. If they have failed to deserve it, the failure cannot, I trust, be traced to any fault of inattention.
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