An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . TOM3 OF WASHlNaTOU. ration due to the illustrious founder of their common freedom. Per*haps the most sensible mark of this veneration was their giving hisname to the federal city, the site of which he had himself November, 1800, Congress opened its sittings at Washington forthe first time. Their sessions had been held first at New York, andafterwards at Philadelphia. M
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . TOM3 OF WASHlNaTOU. ration due to the illustrious founder of their common freedom. Per*haps the most sensible mark of this veneration was their giving hisname to the federal city, the site of which he had himself November, 1800, Congress opened its sittings at Washington forthe first time. Their sessions had been held first at New York, andafterwards at Philadelphia. Mr. Adams was not elected to office a second time. When theelectoral votes were counted, he was in the minority, and Thoi lasJefferson and Aaron Burr, who had been proposed by the oppositionas candidates for President and Vice-president, were found to havean equal number of votes. As the Constitution then stood, this staleof things referred the election to the House of Representatives, andBuir was enabled, with some prospect of success, to intrigue for de-feating the popular will. But the election was finally decided infavour of Jefferson, and cn the 4th of March, 1801, he was iiidJ£U*rated. I THOMAS JBFFaaSON. CHAPTER XXXVIII.
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