Portrait and biographical album of Jackson County, Michigan : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the County together with portraits & biographies of all the governors of the State and of the presidents of the United States . esenting petitions for the abolition of slavery, hewas threatened with indictment by the grand jury,with expulsion from the House, with assassinadon;but 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 by
Portrait and biographical album of Jackson County, Michigan : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the County together with portraits & biographies of all the governors of the State and of the presidents of the United States . esenting petitions for the abolition of slavery, hewas threatened with indictment by the grand jury,with expulsion from the House, with assassinadon;but 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 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 2ist 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 endof earth .-then after a momentspause he added, /<7;« content These were thelast words of the grand Old Man ^^^5^^^1:£s=^^W^=^^^ SE VENT If PRESII^ENT. ^% d^-(!R--£iw<r/©^-«G,j^.?:^,!ig;^^^@j^I*Bi®i^|
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