Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . npresenting petitions for the abolition of slavery, hewas threatened with indictment by the grand jury,with expulsion from the House, with assassinationbut 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 Februar), 1848, h
Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . npresenting petitions for the abolition of slavery, hewas threatened with indictment by the grand jury,with expulsion from the House, with assassinationbut 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 Februar), 1848, he rose on tlie 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 totlie sofa in the rotunda. With reviving conscious-ness, he opened his eyes, looked calmly around andsaid This is the em/0/earth .-then after a momentspause he added, I am content. These were thelast words of the grand Old Man SEVENTH PRESIDENT. ->3
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