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THK CONGRESSIONAIL GLOBE.
Bunker Hill to Yorktown, fro'm Lundy's Lane
to New Orleans, and from the darker hours of
the rebellion in the past, ta Savannah, and Fort
Sumter, and Charleston, and Columbia, and Fort
Fisher and Wilmington.in the tresnt, haa ever
symbolized our unity and ox' r ationallife, as we
see inscribed on it ineffaceably that now doubly
noble inscription, Libdty and Union, nowand
forever, one and insparahle.
But, in this hour ofgdla ssaIcannotforgel-t the
oblig-ations, paramount, and undying, we owe to
our heroic defenders on every battie-field upon
tha land, and every wave-rocked monitorand frig-
ateupon the sea. Inspired bybKthtblirsmeapint
of self-sacrifice they have realized a milion-fold
the historic fable of Curtive as they have offered
to close up, with their own bodies, if need be, the
yawning chasm that iimperiled the Republic. For
you and me, and for their country, they have
turned their backs on the delights of home and sev-
ered the tenderest of ties to lrave death in a thou-
land forms; to confront with unblanched cheek
the tempest of shot,and-shell andtflame; to storm
frowning batteries and bristling intrenchments-
to blebd, to suffer, anid to die. As we look from
this Capitol Hill over the nation there tretuaed
and broken hearts- in every hamlet; there- are
wounded soldiers, mangled with rebel bullets, in
every hospital; thqrQ are patriot graves i eyqry
church-yard; there are bleaching bonisqon everyI
battle-field. It is tholofty and unthltering heroism
of the honored living, and theeven more honored
dead, that has taken us from every valley of dis-
aster and defeat and placed our feet on the sun-
crowned heights of victory. The granite shaft
may commemorate their d~eds. Our American
Valhalla may be crowded with the statues of our
heroes. But our debt of gratitude to them can
never be paid while time shall last and the history
of a-reaoued nation shall endure.
If my yoice, feom this Representative Hall,
could be heard throughout the land, I would ad-
jure all who lovethe Republic to preorvo this
obligation ever fresh in grateful hearts. The
dead, who bave fallen in these struggles to pre-
vent an alien flag from waving over the ashes of
Washingtoo, or oyee the graves where sleep the
great and patriotic rivals of the last generation,
the hero of New Orleans and the illustrious Com-
moner of Eentucky, cannot return to us. On
Shiloh.'s plain and Carolina's sandy shores, be-
fore Richmond, and ahove the clouds at Lookout
Mountain, the patriot mortyrs of constitutional
liberty sleep in their bloody shrostds till the moin-
ing of resurrection. But the living are left be-
hind. And if the Sacred Record appropriately
commends the poor, who are ever with us, to our
benefactions nd regard, may I not remind you
that the. wilow and the fatherless, the maimed
and the wounded, the diseased and the suffering,
whose anguish springs from this great contest,
have claims on all ofus, heightened immeasurably
March 3.
by the sacred cause for which they have given so
much? Thus, and thus alone, by pouring the
oil of consolation into the wounds that wcked
treason has made, can we prove our devotion to
our fatherland and our affectionato gratitude to-
ward its defenders.
And, rejoiciagover the bow of promise we al-
ready-see arching the storm-cloud of war, giving
assurance that no deluge of secession shall aga.in
overwhelm or endanger our nation, we can join,
with heaxt and soul, sincerely and trustingly, in
the poet's prayer:
Now, Father, lay thy heating hand
In mercy oi oar stricken land ;
Lead all Its wanderer8 to the fold,
And be their Shepherd, as of old.
So shall our nation's song ascend
To thee, our Ruler, Father, rriend;
While beaven's wide, arch re oand. again
With 'Peace ot earthood will to men.'
We go hence, with our official labors ended,
to the Senate CImbar and the portico of the
Capitol, there, with the statue of the goddess of
Liberty looking down for the first time from her
lofty pedrestal on such a scene, to witness tnd
parc 'pat in the inauguration of the Elect of the
America people.
And now, tbnking you most truly for the ap-
probation of my officia conduct which you have
recorded on your Journals, I declare the House
of Representatives of the Thirty-Eighth Con-
gress of the United States adjourned sine die.
SENATE-SPECIAL SESSION
SPFROIAL 81U8IQ0N.
IN SENATE.
SA&TsanAy, Mllarch 4, 1865.
Hon. ANDREW JOHNSON, Vice President
of the United States, having taken the oath of
office at the close of the regular aession of Con-
gres, took the chair, and 41rscted the Secretary
to read the proclamation convening a special ses-
sion of the Senate.
The Secretary (Hon. JomiW. Foxxu) read,
as follows:
A PROOLLMLTION.
Whereas objects oflnterest to the United States requtre
that -ie Senatcshould be convened at twelve o'clock, on
the 4th of March next, to recelve and act upon mea com-
munlcations as maybe made to It on the pail of theExec-
alive:
Now, therefira, I, AB Rs uAt Lescoaq, have consldered
It to be mydutyto isiuths~my proclamation, declartng that
an oztrnordinary occasion requtrea the Sonata of the Unt-
ted States to convene, for tho te naeiatlon of business, at
the Capitol, In the city of Washingtonon the 4th day of
.larch next, at twSlve o'clock at noon on that day, of
which all who sall at that time be enttledto aetna mem-
bers of that body are iereby required to take notice.
Given under my hand and the seal of the United States
at Washington, the 17th day of February In the
[a. s.] year of our Lord IM85 and of thildepoadence of
the United Statos of Ateric the-eighty-ninth.
ABRA1EAXINaCO/N.
By the President:
WILLAS H. Srwa, Secredtry of Stats.
The VICE PRESIDENT. The Secretary will
read the names of the newly-elected Senators.
The list was red, as follows:
HEn. Henry B. Anthony, of Rhode Island.
Hon. Aaron H. Cragin, of New Hampshire.
Hon. William Pitt Fesegnden, of Maine
Hon. Jame W. Grimes, of Iowa.
Hon. James Guthrie, of Kentucky.
HEn. Jacob M. Howard, of Michigan.
Hon. James H. Lane, of Kanias.
HoEn. Daniel S. Norton, of Minnesota.
HEon. Willard Saulabury, of Delaware.
Hon. Waitman T. Willey, of West Vrginia.
Hon. George H. Williams, of Oregon,
Bon. Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts.
Hon. Richard Yates, of Illinois.
As their names were called the Senators came
forward, and the oaths prescribed by law were
administered to them, with the e ception of Mr.
SAULSBaURY, who was not present.
The Senators having been &warn, and taken
their seats in th Senate, the following Senators
were present:
From th Stats of Jew Hampsire.-Hon. Daniel
Clark and Hon. Aaron H. C ragin.
From the Stale QfMiassachu .s-Hon. Charles
Sumner and Hon. Henry Wilson.
From the State ofRhadc Island and Providence
Ptantations-Hon. William Sprague and Hon.
Henry B. Anthony.
From the Siae of Cnnecticut-Hon. La Fayette
S. Foster and Hon. James Dixon.
From the State of Vnron-Hon. Solomon Foot
and HEn. Jacob Collomer.
From the State of few York--Hon. Ira Harris
and Hon. Edwin D. Morgan.
From the State of JNtcw Jersey--Hon. William
Wright.
Fro the State of PFensybaia-Hon. Edgar
Cowan,
romn tle State of Delaware-Hon. George Read
IRiddle.
From t4 State of .Tltarflan4-Hon. Reverdy
Johnson.
From the Se fKenudcy-on. Garrett Davis
and Hon. James Guthrie.
-rom the State of Ohio-Hon. John Sherman
and Han. Benjamin F. Wade.
From the State of ladie -Hon. Henry S. Lane
and Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks.
From the State of llinois-Hon. Lyman Trum-
bull and Hon. Richard Yates.
From the Stale of .ales-Hon. Lot M. Morrill
and Han. William Pitt Fessenden.
mrom the Stale of .Atssouri-Hon. B. Gratz
Brown and Hon. John B. Henderson.
From the State of .MWickgan--Hon. Zechariah
Chandler and Hon. Jacob M. Howard.
From the State of Iowta-Hon. James Harlan
and Hon. Iames W. Grimes.
From the State of Tisconsin-Hon. Timothy
0. Howe and HEn. James R. Doolittle.
From the State of California-Hon. James A.
McDougall and Ron. John Conness.
From the State of Jlfeivasota-Hon. Alexander
Ramse.y and Han. Daniel S. Norton.
Fron the Statt of Oregon-Hon. James W.
Nesmith and Hon. George H. Williams.
From the State Qf Kansas-Hon. Samuel C.
Pomeroy and Hon. James H. Lane.
FroT the State of Wast irginia-Hon. Wait-
man T. Willey.
From the State of .Nevada-Hon. James W.
Nye and Hon. William M. Stewart.
'INAUGURATION 0EREMONIS.
The personaentitled to admission on the floor
of the Senate Chamber having been admitted to
the places reserved for them, at twenty-five min-
utes after twelve o'clock the President, Hon.
Ama.&nA Lnxoot, entered the Senate Chamber,
accomnpanied by Mr. FOSTrR, Mr. De0LITT r,
and Mr. HENwsasox, members of the committee
of errangements, and was conducted to a seat in
front of the Secretary's desk, and the members
of the committee were seated on his left.
The VICE PRESIDENT. The orderofpro-
cession will now be formed, for the purpose of
repairing to the front of the portico, according to
the programme.
Those assembled in the Senate Chamber pro-
ceeded to the platform on the central portico of
the Capitol in the following order:
The marshal of the District of Columbia; the
ex-Vice President; the Supreme Court of the
United States; the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Sen-
ate; the President of tie United States, the Pres-
ident-elect; the Vice President and the Secretary
of the Senate; the members of the Senate; the
diplomatic corps; heads of Departments; Gov-
ernors of States and Territories; the Mayors of
Washington and Georgetown, and otlier persons
admitted to tie floor of the Senate Chamber.
The President-elect delivered tho following
INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
Fellow- Counlrymen:
At this second appearing to take the oath of
the presidential office, there is less occasion for
an extended address thtan there was at the first.
Then, a statement, somewhat in detail, ofa course
to be pursued, seemed fiuing and proper. Now,
at the expiration of four yenrs, d'uring which
'public declarations have been constantly called
forth on every point and phase ofthe great contest
which still absorbs the attention and engrosses
the energies of the nation, little that is newv could
be presented. The progress of our arms, upon
which all else chiefly depends, is as well knowo
to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust,](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.congrec/conglob0083&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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