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CONCLUSION.
And now, having performed the duty for which we assembled, I desire to express to you my grateful acknowledgments for the uniform kindness with which you have treated me; to return through you to the people of the State my profound thanks for the marks of confidence which they have more than once bestowed upon me, and to invoke the choicest benedictions of the Good Father upon our beloved State now and at every step in her future progress.