. Portrait and biographical album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara counties, Wisconsin ... ery, hewas threatened with indictment by the grand jury,with expulsion from the House, with assassination ;but no threats could intimidate him, and his finaltriumph was coiriplete. It has been said of President Adams, that when hisbody was bent and his hair silvered by the lapse offourscore years, yielding to the simple faith of a littlechild, he was accustomed to repeat every night, beforehe slept, the prajer which his mother taught him inhis infant years. On the 21 St of February, 1848, he rose on
. Portrait and biographical album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara counties, Wisconsin ... ery, hewas threatened with indictment by the grand jury,with expulsion from the House, with assassination ;but no threats could intimidate him, and his finaltriumph was coiriplete. It has been said of President Adams, that when hisbody was bent and his hair silvered by the lapse offourscore years, yielding to the simple faith of a littlechild, he was accustomed to repeat every night, beforehe slept, the prajer which his mother taught him inhis infant years. On the 21 St of February, 1848, he rose on the floorof Congress, with a paper in his hand, to address thespeaker. Suddenly he fell, again stricken by paraly-sis, and was caught in the arms of those around a time he was senseless, as he was conveyed tothe sofa in the rotunda. With reviving conscious-ness, he opened his eyes, looked calmly around andsaid This is the end of earth ythen after a momentspause he added, I am content These were thelast words of the grand Old Man Eloquent. Tm NEW roRxPUMJC LIBRARY *STOS. LBN,, ^i^j,. 1 < SEVENTH IRESILENT. 43
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