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Excerpt from Journal of the Senate of the Seventeenth General Assembly of the State of Iowa: Which Convened at the Capitol at Des Moines, January 14, 1878
That these expectations may be fully realized, and that your labors here may be characterized by the exercise of those principles of justice and economy to which our beloved State is so largely indebted for the advanced position that it now occupies, is my earnest desire, as it is my firm belief.
Trusting that this session may be signalized as well for the harmony of its deliberations as for the wisdom of its enactments, I welcome you to this chamber, where, in the faithful discharge of your duties as legis lators, you will honor this great Commonwealth and win for yourselves that greatest of all earthly rewards, the smiles of an approving con science.
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