Portrait and biographical album of Washtenaw County, Michigan, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . resenting petitions for the abolition of slavery, hewas threatened with indictment by the grand jurywith expulsion from the House, with assassination ,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
Portrait and biographical album of Washtenaw County, Michigan, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . resenting petitions for the abolition of slavery, hewas threatened with indictment by the grand jurywith expulsion from the House, with assassination ,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 prayer which his mother taught him inhis infant years. On the 2istof February, 184S, he rose on tlie lloorof 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 be 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 Ihe end of earth .-then after a momentspause he added, I am eDnfeiif. These were thelast words of the grand Old Man
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