I should be deeply grieved to take this step did I not know how many abler representatives you can find in the ranks of that constituency of which any man may be proud.

I leave the halls of legislation at a moment when our party is consolidated, when its promise for the future was never more brilliant, and when peace and prosperity seem to have taken up their permanent abode in our happy country, whose triumphant experiment of popular institutions makes every despot shake upon his throne.

Gentlemen, in bidding you farewell I can only say that, should the torch of the political incendiary ever be applied to the sublime fabric of our system, and those institutions which were laid in our father's struggles and cemented with their blood, should totter and crumble, I, for one, will be found going down with the ship, and waving the glorious flag of our country above the smouldering ruins of that moral night.
"I am, fellow-citizens, your obliged, faithful, and humble servant, WATKINS BODLEY." In pursuance of the call the meetings were held.

Jim, Tom, and Ned were early on the ground in their respective districts, with about thirty chosen friends.

In Jim's district Mr.Gasserly was elected chairman, and Messrs.