Portrait and biographical record of Iroquois County, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative . lavery, hewas threatened with indictment by the grand jur)-with expulsion from the House, with assassinationbut no tlireats could intimidate him, and his finaltriumph was complete. 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 year
Portrait and biographical record of Iroquois County, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative . lavery, hewas threatened with indictment by the grand jur)-with expulsion from the House, with assassinationbut no tlireats could intimidate him, and his finaltriumph was complete. 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 tlie floorof Congress, with a paper in his hand, to address thespeaker. Suddenly he fell, again stricken by paraly-sis, and was caught in the amis of those around a time he was senseless, as he was conveyed totlie sofa in the rotunda. With reviving conscious-ness, he opened his eyes, looked calmly around andsaid T/iis is the end of earth ;\\\^w after a moments|xause he added, I am content These were thelast words of the grand Old Man Eloquent. LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS UR3ANA. -^ ^J^^L£^-^^^^r. ^t^^^ \^ SEVENTH PRESIDENT.
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