A history of the American nation . was to be organ-ized, and there was not a quorum of the House of Representa-tives till the first of April, or of the Senate till some days the votes for President were counted in the presenceof the two houses, it was found that Washington had beenunanimously elected President, and that Johnei^c^teT^and Adams, having received the next greatest numberinaugurated. of ballots, was elected Washing-tons journey from Virginia to New Y^ork was a longtriumphal progress. The people gathered everywhere to pay a ^ The confederate Congress cont
A history of the American nation . was to be organ-ized, and there was not a quorum of the House of Representa-tives till the first of April, or of the Senate till some days the votes for President were counted in the presenceof the two houses, it was found that Washington had beenunanimously elected President, and that Johnei^c^teT^and Adams, having received the next greatest numberinaugurated. of ballots, was elected Washing-tons journey from Virginia to New Y^ork was a longtriumphal progress. The people gathered everywhere to pay a ^ The confederate Congress continued in formal existence till March 2,1789. It then flickered and went out without any public notice. Oneof the men at the time said it was hard to say whether the old governmentwas dead or the new one alive. ^ By the Constitution as it then was, each elector cast two votes withoutdesignating which was for President and which for Vice-President. Con-stitution, art. ii, sec. i, §3. 198 FEDERALIST PARTY IN CONTROL—1789-1801 199. reverent respect to the man whose greatness was deeply felt andhonored. Not till the 30th of April did he take the oath of place was the Senate balcony of Federal Hall. The scene wasan impressive one. One of the greatest of the worlds great menconsecrated himself anew to theservice of his country, and en-tered upon the duty of givinglife and vigor to the new Gov-ernment of the young the oath had been takenWashington read to Congress,assembled in the Senate cham-ber, his inaugural address. Itwas very touching, we are toldby a spectator, and quite ofthe solemn kind. His aspectgrave almost to sadness; hismodesty, actually shaking; hisvoice deep, a little tremulous,and so low as to call for closeattention; added to the seriesof objects presented to the mind and overwhelming it, pro-duced emotions of the most affecting kind upon the before the inauguration the House had entered ear-nestly upon the work of legislation. T
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