Portrait and biographical album of Clinton and Shiawassee counties, Mich., containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the presidents of the United States, and governors of the state . ting jjelitions for the abolition of slavery, hewas threatened with indictment by the grand jur),with 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 sil
Portrait and biographical album of Clinton and Shiawassee counties, Mich., containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the presidents of the United States, and governors of the state . ting jjelitions for the abolition of slavery, hewas threatened with indictment by the grand jur),with 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 prajer which his mother taught him inhis infant years. On the 2istof February, 1848, he rose on the floorof Congress, with a paper in his hand, to address thespeaker. Suddenly he fell, again stricken ;y ]iaraly-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 end of earth /then after a momentspause he added, ^\I am content These were thelast words of the grand Old Man SE VENTH rHESIUENT. «*3
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