Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . petitions for the abolition of slavery, hewas threatened with indictment by the grand jury,with expulsion from the House, with assassinationbut no threats could intimidate him, and his finaltriumph was complete. It has been said of President Adams, that when hisbody was bent and his hair silvered l)y 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
Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . petitions for the abolition of slavery, hewas threatened with indictment by the grand jury,with expulsion from the House, with assassinationbut no threats could intimidate him, and his finaltriumph was complete. It has been said of President Adams, that when hisbody was bent and his hair silvered l)y 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 jiaraly-sis, and was caught in the arms of those around a tinre 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 llie end of earth ;then after a momentspause he added, / am content These were thelast words of the grand Old Man Eloquent. •c-^.
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