. The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks. /p^^ ^•^^wi ~ ,k ^-f ^ -^. mw JOHN ADAMS. 355 JOHN ADAMS. Adams, the second President of the United States, wasborn in Massachusetts on the 30th day of October, 1732,and diod July 4th, 182(3. During both of Washingtonsterms of office Adams had been Vice-President. Of unim-peachable honesty and undoubted ability he was by natureof a cold and distant disposition. He did not possess thegrand nobility of soul that characterized Washington, andwe find him an ardent partizan in the Federal and Anti-Federal feu
. The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks. /p^^ ^•^^wi ~ ,k ^-f ^ -^. mw JOHN ADAMS. 355 JOHN ADAMS. Adams, the second President of the United States, wasborn in Massachusetts on the 30th day of October, 1732,and diod July 4th, 182(3. During both of Washingtonsterms of office Adams had been Vice-President. Of unim-peachable honesty and undoubted ability he was by natureof a cold and distant disposition. He did not possess thegrand nobility of soul that characterized Washington, andwe find him an ardent partizan in the Federal and Anti-Federal feud. His instigation of the presentation and passage of the*Alien and Sedition Laws is a stain upon his administra-tion, as these measures were undoubtedly despotic in importand of no utility. Whether Adams should bear the blame ofthis odious legislation, which was entirely in consonance withthe feelings and desires of every member of his party, is ques-tionable, thousfh he has been chars^ed with bein; the author ofthe laws whose tyranny excited the anger of the people andgreatly weakened their confidence in the F
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