Caleb Cushing

-Caleb Cuphing, as he senior niemher oí the ittasaaenu(Jlts House, called that body to order in Wèdnesday, in a brief speech, conludïng asfollows: " You MMüibte at a limo solomn nnd momentoOB in the history of the country, when we :ire in arms to uphold the co'nstitution, when the dearest care of every citizen of the common-wealth is not for his own Ufe, but l'or the life of the Union. At other times the wpr.dy wnrfareof party, the strifes of faoUon, n;iht be tolerated and endorsed, il not encouraged or applauded. Sueh is not the present hoor. Higher and greater thoushts occupy us now. I contidently believe that you, gentlemen, will nrope voursolves eqiial to the emergency, that you will rise to the htightof your dutics, and that, taking the constitntion lor your loadatone nnd yourguide thronffh the troublcs of the times,' you will dedícate yoíirselves to the tingle object oí oontribüting with heart and soul to uphold, to re-establish and to perpetúate otir saerod and beiovcd Union. That wo reolve and determine to do with the good help of God."