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...Contents George Washington........................4 George Washington........................8 John Adams..................................9 Thomas Jefferson.........................16 Thomas Jefferson.........................21 James Madison............................27 James Madison............................31 Jam...

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...shington........................4 George Washington........................8 John Adams..................................9 Thomas Jefferson.............. ...ton........................4 George Washington........................8 John Adams..................................9 Thomas Jefferson................... ................................35 James Monroe..............................44 John Quincy Adams......................57 Andrew Jackson.................... ...........................35 James Monroe..............................44 John Quincy Adams......................57 Andrew Jackson......................... ....................35 James Monroe..............................44 John Quincy Adams......................57 Andrew Jackson...........................65... ...t D. Eisenhower.................301 Dwight D. Eisenhower.................309 John F. Kennedy........................314 Lyndon Baines Johnson............ ... been unanimously elected President by the first electoral college, and John Adams was elected Vice Presi dent because he received the second greates... ...lled me. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 56 John Quincy Adams INAUGURAL ADDRESS FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1825 The only son of a fo... ...son of a former President to be elected to the Nation’s highest office, John Quincy Adams was chosen by the House of Representatives when the electora...

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...ho repeatedly defeated many times their number of hostile Indians. The children also knew the friendly Indian Squanto and the young pilgrim gentleman John Alden and the lovely maiden Priscilla Mullins. In the middle grades practically all students used to read Longfellow’s long narrative poem The Courtship of Miles Standish, telling the story of these real people. The plot...

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...hoisit le président, et le Sénat le vice-président. Aujourd'hui, 213 ans après que le premier signe annonciateur ait surgi en 1824 avec l'élection de John Quincy Adams, l'efficacité du collège électoral demeure un sujet brûlant et qui suscite beaucoup de polémique…À l'époque où la constitution américaine a été écrite et ratifiée, elle était, grâce à sa vision, une entrepri...

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...state) chooses the president and the Senate the vice president. Today, 213 years after the first harbinger sign surfaced in 1824 with the election of John Quincy Adams, the efficiency of the electoral college is still a hot and a highly moot topic… At the time the US constitution was written and ratified, it was, thanks to its vision, an endeavor that was entirely ahead of...

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...ori.html http://samvak.tripod.com/objectrelations.html Berliner When President John F. Kennedy sought to impress the Germans in 1961 - then bes... ...lf to be deceived by the 'crawling, despicable flattery of those about him.' Later, John Quincy Adams would define Bolívar's military career as 'des... ... be deceived by the 'crawling, despicable flattery of those about him.' Later, John Quincy Adams would define Bolívar's military career as 'despotic... ...eived by the 'crawling, despicable flattery of those about him.' Later, John Quincy Adams would define Bolívar's military career as 'despotic and s... ...pular, they had to change their name to the Union Party. Lincoln's vice-president, Johnson, actually was a Democrat and hailed from Tennessee, a se... ...t elected by popular vote but by an electoral college representing the states. John Quincy Adams (1824), Rutherford Hayes (1876), Benjamin Harrison... ...d by popular vote but by an electoral college representing the states. John Quincy Adams (1824), Rutherford Hayes (1876), Benjamin Harrison (1888) ...

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...nd the sophomore and freshmen speakers. Follow- ing the drag was the North Adams " band," and then came the fresh men in a blaze of fireworks. The par... ...ts: members of the faculty, hiding behind the trees; fair sisters of North Adams; members of the A. P. W. society, the advancers of the social life at... ...tern and left bower Jenkins searched for the canes in every hotel in North Adams. They found only Robertson; not with cnuoa in front of him~but straws... ...We allow you from this time on to go your way unmolested." Hatchet Oration John Donahue Murphy 1907 alias " John Donahue Marathon Murjjhy, " the s] ea... ...e duly credited with double cuts at all times. He further ex- plained that Johnson, who tried to <!oncoal KoUey's absence, had "escaped punishment at ... ..., Asst. Trust Officer IIAKI.KM BRANCH W. 1'. Lewis, Manager IIRONX IIRANCH John D.inibey, Manager Daniel B. Buckley FINE CUSTOM TAILORING 72 12 Main B... ...Mass. . 18 E. C. James T. Hale. Duluth, Minn. 18 C. H. Lyndon B. Hardwick, Quincy, Mass. 19 Spring St. John D. Ilass, West Stockbridge, Mass. 8 E. C. ...

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...lator: “A mature artist, Bartlett writes with ease and taste.” J. DONALD ADAMS in The New York Times: “...the freshest, most vital writing I have s... ...rds shrugged as I entered. A door clanged with a terrible crash: I was in John’s cell. Kissing me, hugging me, we embraced: as always I felt he was ... ...en an ugly quarrel going on...we have new guards. Here, here, sit by me.” John has been imprisoned five months and is chained to the wall, a loop ar... ... brothers as we talked, sitting on the stone floor, the chain between us. John urged me to leave Capernaum. “You can’t go on preaching there. Antipa... ...reat Diaries 589 lines 1-2: ibid. 591 lines 5-16: quotation from Ohn Quincy, President of H a r v a r d , Harvard Record 591 lines 19-23 ... ...is sorely tried; we have read anew life’s “great tragic vol- ume,” as John Adams called it. The pages lie open as drums thud along the Po- tomac. E... ...excuse it as custom; yet not every wealthy man kept slaves. I admire the Adams family: their racial integrity stands out, their intelligent diploma... ...ved from the train. W. H. 1864 It was only a few years ago that John Quincy Adams was swimming in the Potomac with his son. Adams used to rise ... ...ared to be necessary,” so wrote our Harvard University friend, old Josiah Quincy. He also added, that summer in ’54, “Slaveholders have multiplied t...

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... now a member of the Lower House from an electoral district in that State. John Quincy Adams went into the House of Representatives after he had been ... ...a member of the Lower House from an electoral district in that State. John Quincy Adams went into the House of Representatives after he had been Presi... ...r of the Lower House from an electoral district in that State. John Quincy Adams went into the House of Representatives after he had been President of... ...rn, splashing about through the mud, and reminding one not unfrequently of John Gilpin. Why they always went so fast, destroying their horses’ feet on... ...re- bellion and revolution. Hampden, Pym, and Oliver Cromwell; Washington, Adams, and Jefferson, all were rebels.” Then comes the question whether Sou... ...s been coming by degrees, and now the South had felt that it was come. Old John Brown, who did his best to create a servile insurrection at Harper’s F... ... do not know, but I do know that they were all still living. These are Mr. Quincy, who is now over ninety; Mr. Sparks; Mr. Everett, 185 Trollope the ... ...or by Kentucky, I think seven times, now sits in the Lower House; and John Quincy Adams appeared as a Representative from Massachusetts after he had f... ...entucky, I think seven times, now sits in the Lower House; and John Quincy Adams appeared as a Representative from Massachusetts after he had filled t...

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...Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One cannot sleep forever,”—and Franklin, Adams, Hamilton, and Patrick Henry were all utterly opposed to it. But it w... ...last reached the fountain of Federal justice; and finally the execution of John Brown, for his wild raid into Virginia, to invite the slaves to rally ... ...lave and half free, but must be- come all one thing or all the other. When John Brown lay under sentence of death he declared that now he was sure tha... ...ts final extirpation, to the music of the war-song of the great conflict: “John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave, But his soul is marching ... ...13 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One LEGAL SUIT OF WIDOW v.s. Gen. ADAMS TO THE PEOPLE. “SANGAMON JOURNAL,” SPRINGFIELD, ILL., Aug. 19, 1837. ... ...l form, in reference to the case of the heirs of Joseph Anderson vs. James Adams. These articles can now be read uninfluenced by personal or party fee... ...cessary, however, to account for it by in- forming you that I have been to Quincy on business that would not admit of delay. I will now state briefly ...

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...aws for the set tlers. In the year 1628 they sent over a few people, with John Endicott at their bead, to commence a plantation at Salem. {Foot Note:... ...ack? But when his daughter, the Lady Arbella, was married to a certain Mr. Johnson, the earl gave her this valuable chair.” “Who was Mr. Johnson?” inq... ...ble in his own words, the story of the Lady Arbella. The ship in which Mr. Johnson and his lady embarked, taking Grandfather’s chair along with them, ... ...e of those iron hearted men. Be neath the portrait was the name of Samuel Adams. “He was a man of great note in all the doings that brought 127 Hawt... ...e king’s friends.” “There never was a greater contrast than between Samuel Adams and John Hancock,” said Grandfather. “Yet they were of the same side ... ...might have been. Nevertheless, he in his em broidered clothes, and Samuel Adams in his threadbare coat, wrought together in the cause of liberty. Ada... ... Franklin.” The book likewise contained portraits of James Otis and Josiah Quincy. Both of them, Grandfather observed, were men of wonderful talents a...

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...ect it; and write me at your first leisure. Y ours as ever, A. LINCOLN. TO JOHN MATHERS, JACKSONVILLE, ILL. SPRINGFIELD, JULY 20, 1858. JNO. MA THERS,... ... this day are really iden- tical with the two in the days of Jefferson and Adams, they have performed the same feat as the two drunken men. But soberl... ...ess, and that is the case of Judge Douglas’s old friend Colonel Richard M. Johnson. I will also add to the remarks I have made (for I am not going to ... ...ionally elect a President, it will be our duty to see that you submit. Old John Brown has been executed for treason against a State. We cannot object,... ...nth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks, some of whom now reside in Adams, and others in Macon County, Illinois. My paternal grandfather, Abrah... ...erican or Know-Nothing lodges; but in point of fact, I never was in one at Quincy or elsewhere. I was never in Quincy but one day and two nights while... ...assed an hour there, and you walked with me to, and parted with me at, the Quincy House, quite late at night. I left by stage for Naples before daylig... ...ark the evening, previous to the speaking, when I found you waiting at the Quincy House to meet me. A few days after I was there, Richardson, as I und... ...get a fair share of that element in without. This stands in the way of Mr. Adams. I think of Gov- ernor Banks, Mr. Welles, and Mr. Tuck. Which of them...

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... all the same. O.M. The ant discriminates between friend and stranger. Sir John Lubbock took ants from two different nests, made them drunk with whisk... ..., then carried their friends home and threw the strangers over board. Sir John repeated the experiment a number of times. For a time the sober ants d... ... detail wherein the ant is a long way the superior of any human being. Sir John Lubbock proved by many experiments that an ant knows a stranger ant of... ...Isn’t it Burgess? Y.M. Easily. O.M. And which one is the unhappiest? Henry Adams? Y.M. Without a question! O.M. I know them well. They are extremes, a... ... same—about around fifty. Burgess had always been buoyant, hopeful, happy; Adams has always been cheerless, hopeless, despondent. As young fellows bot... ... both tried country journalism—and failed. Burgess didn’t seem to mind it; Adams couldn’t smile, he could only mourn and groan over what had happened ... ...ial came on, people came from all the farms around, and from Hannibal, and Quincy, and even from Keokuk; and the court house could hold only a fractio...

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... that, on the 2nd of December; Asa Hardy was captain of her, and his brother John was first clerk; and it was his first trip in her, too; Tom Jones to... ...y queer be ing; no respect for anything or anybody. Sometimes he called me ‘Johnny.’ And he kept a fiddle, and a cat. He played execrably. This seeme... ...in columns; a bill head worded something like this— STEAMER GREAT REPUBLIC. JOHN SMITH MASTER PILOTS, JOHN JONES AND THOMAS BROWN. ——————————————————... ...ut even at this rattling gait I think we changed watches three times in Fort Adams reach, which is five miles long. A ‘reach’ is a piece of straight r... ...eipt for those saddles, in case by any miracle they should come. A malicious Quincy paper used always to refer to this town, in derision as “Stavely’s... ...s, and the suggestions of wholesome life and comfort that everywhere appear. Quincy is a notable example—a brisk, handsome, well ordered city; and no... ...follow the former five into the river. Doubtless Marion City was too near to Quincy. It had an other disadvantage: it was situated in a flat mud bot... ...there is an opening in the trees, and that is all. It is in width, from Fort Adams on the left bank of the Mississippi to the bank of Rapides Parish, ...

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...ould like you to name him; I should like to know who he was. [Same voice, “John Calhoun.”] No, sir, I never heard of even John Calhoun saying such a t... ...rleston, Coles County September 18th, Galesburgh, Knox County October 7th, Quincy , Adams County October13th, Alton, Madison County October 15th, I ag... ...Coles County September 18th, Galesburgh, Knox County October 7th, Quincy , Adams County October13th, Alton, Madison County October 15th, I agree to yo... ...oombs got up and told him it was not true. It reminds me of the story that John Phoe- nix, the California railroad surveyor, tells. He says they start... ...e speaks his sentiments “frankly and manfully.” On the 9th of June Colonel John Dougherty, Governor Reynolds, and others, calling themselves National ...

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... participated in it. In the society, moreover, of Wendell Phillips, Edmund Quincy, William Lloyd Garri- son, and other men of earnest faith and refine... ...ed men, beginning as far back as 1827, when the Rev. Samuel E. Cornish and John B. 14 My Bondage and My Freedom Russworm (a graduate of Bowdoin colle... ...,” “Jims,” and “Neds” of the south, observable here is, that “Wil- liam,” “John,” “James,” “Edward,” are substituted. It goes 46 My Bondage and My Fr... ...that I could pray for light. I consulted a good colored man, named Charles Johnson; and, in tones of holy affection, he told me to pray, and what to p... ...lroad companies to respect the rights of travel- ers. Hon. Charles Francis Adams performed signal service in the Massachusetts legislature, in bringin...

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...d by its own heat, But be much puzzled by a cough and cold, And find a quincy very hard to treat; Against all noble maladies he ‘s bold, B... ... Learn’d, pious, temperate in love and wine; But, his life falling into Johnson’s way, We ‘re told this great high priest of all the Nine W... ...orr’d Who name the French in English, save to show How Peace should make John Bull the Frenchman’s foe. The Russians, having built two batteries... ...cause which makes a verse want feet, And throws a cloud o’er Longman and John Murray, When the sale of new books is not so fleet As they who... ... intervening Forbids. it great impression in my youth Was made by Mrs. Adams, where she cries, ‘That Scriptures out of church are blasphemies....

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...ranslator – Henry Reeve Book One Introduction Special Introduction By Hon. John T. Morgan In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the In... ...n rights and liberties have already inspired the souls of the people. Hon. John T. Morgan Special Introduction By Hon. John J. Ingalls Nearly two-thir... ...lution.” He died at Cannes, April 15, 1859, at the age of fifty-four. Hon. John J. Ingalls Introductory Chapter Amongst the novel objects that attract... ...w election the fate of all the Federal public officers is in suspense. Mr. Quincy Adams, on his entry into office, discharged the majority of the indi... ...ion the fate of all the Federal public officers is in suspense. Mr. Quincy Adams, on his entry into office, discharged the majority of the individuals... ...at the election of Mr. Jefferson in 1801; the second was in 1825, when Mr. Quincy Adams was named.* Crises Of The Election The Election may be conside... ...election of Mr. Jefferson in 1801; the second was in 1825, when Mr. Quincy Adams was named.* Crises Of The Election The Election may be considered as ...

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...with so few others. Let me hear from you soon. Yours truly, A. LINCOLN. TO JOHN BENNETT. SPRINGFIELD, Jan. 15, 1846. JOHN BENNETT. FRIEND JOHN: Nathan... ...one—concurring, as he did generally, with the gentleman from Arkansas [Mr. Johnson] that the postpone- ment might jeopard the safety of the propositio... ...ng the four succeeding years embraced by the administration of Presi- dent Adams, the power not only to appropriate money, but to apply it, under the ... ...twenty-seven dollars and one cent. These four years were the period of Mr. Adams’s administration, nearly and sub- stantially. This fact shows that wh... ...een for, and the executive against, the power, till the period of Mr. J.Q. Adams’s administration, at which point he considers the executive influence... ...he Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two 1851 LETTERS TO FAMILY MEMBERS TO JOHN D. JOHNSTON. January 2, 1851 DEAR JOHNSTON:—Your request for eighty do... ...sive elections, with one brief intermission, till the inauguration of John Quincy Adams, in March, 1825. 130 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Tw... ...and Walker both. We shall be glad, if you will hoist Logan’s name, in your Quincy pa- pers. Very truly your friends, A. LINCOLN, B. S. EWARDS, JOHN T.... ... John C. Calhoun and William H. Crawford from the South, equally with John Quincy Adams, Benjamin Rush, and Smith Thompson from the North, alike answe...

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...volume is dedicated to my Wife Margaret James Washington And to my Brother John H. Washington Whose patience, fidelity, and hard work have gone far to... ...amily was declared free by the Emancipation Proclama- tion. Three children—John, my older brother, Amanda, my sister, and myself—had a pallet on the d... ... chosen to wear no covering. In connection with the flax shirt, my brother John, who is several years older than I am, performed one of the most gener... ...r. George W. Campbell; the other is a black man and an ex-slave, Mr. Lewis Adams. These were the men who wrote to General Armstrong for a teacher. Mr.... ...d little experience in dealing with matters pertaining to edu- cation. Mr. Adams was a mechanic, and had learned the trades of shoemaking, harness-mak... ...chool at Tuskegee than those of these two men. I have always felt that Mr. Adams, in a large degree, derived his unusual power of mind from the traini... ...ed an epoch in the his- tory of a race, and called it into manhood.” Mayor Quincy had received the monument for the city of Boston. The story of Colon...

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...f adventures, the original form of the manuscript was finally printed by Mr. John Bigelow, and is here reproduced in recognition of its value as a pic... ...he grew too old to follow business longer, when he went to live with his son John, a dyer at Banbury, in Oxfordshire, with whom my father served an ap... ... the manor there. My grand father had four sons that grew up, viz.: Thomas, John, Ben jamin and Josiah. I will give you what account I can of them, ... ... missed or wanted. And after some time an ingenious tradesman, Mr. Mat thew Adams, who had a pretty collection of books, and who frequented our print... ...ment of Massachusetts Bay projected an attack upon Crown Point, and sent Mr. Quincy to Pennsylvania, and Mr. Pownall, afterward Governor Pownall, to N... ...o solicit assistance. As I was in the Assembly, knew its temper, and was Mr. Quincy’s countryman, he appli’d to me for my influ ence and assistance. ... ...r grant to New England effec tual, were at a loss how to accomplish it. Mr. Quincy labored hard with the governor to obtain his assent, but he was ob...

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...fame, of rank and 13 Thomas de Quincey of genius. The Prince of Wales and John Milton; the first being then about sixteen years old, the other about ... ...r since been traced. In many of the elder lives it has been asserted, that John Shakspeare, the father of the poet, was a butcher, and in others that ... ... in country places, who combines sev- eral in his own person. Accordingly, John Shakspeare is known to have united with his town calling the rural and... ... 10, 1616, (about ten weeks before her father’s death,) married Mr. Thomas Quincy of Stratford, by whom she had three sons, Shakspeare, Richard, and T... ... spectator; and with this purpose he connected another, worthy of a Parson Adams. It is his son who tells the story, whose filial duty was not proof a...

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...assengers with him and his first wife, on the ship Mary 5 U. S. Grant and John, from Dorchester, England, in 1630. Mrs. Rockwell had several children... ...ield and worked for, and lived in the family of a Mr. Brown, the father of John Brown—”whose body lies mouldering in the grave, while his soul goes ma... ...e, while his soul goes marching on.” I have often heard my father speak of John Brown, particu- larly since the events at Harper’s Ferry. Brown was a ... ...n Springfield with my regiment until the 3d of July, when I was ordered to Quincy, Illinois. By that time the regiment was in a good state of discipli... ...any drill. There was direct railroad communication between Springfield and Quincy, but I thought it would be good preparation for the troops to march ... ...to proceed with all dispatch to their relief. We took the cars and reached Quincy in a few hours. When I left Galena for the last time to take command... ...several hundred men out of his small command. On the 4th of August Colonel Adams, commanding a little brigade of about a thousand men, returned report... ...or was confirmed there, also, from other sources. A few days after Colonel Adams’s return Colonel Capron also got in with a small de- tachment and con... ... from Crump’s landing westward, and he sends it over the road running from Adamsville to the Pittsburg landing and Purdy road. These two roads interse...