Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-02-16
FOR PRESIDENT.

FOR NONRESIDENT,
J. C. Calhoun, 1873
Andrew Jackson, Is
n. Macon, "a
Henry Clay, 2
N.sanford, 80
Van Buren,, 8
Blank Vote,
The President of the Senate then announc
ed the state Of the votes for President and
Vice-President, to the two Houses of Congress
and that no person has obtained majority
| OF the votes of the Electors for the Office o
President, and that the three highest on the
list are Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams
and VIM. H. Crawford.
He then declared John c., Calhoun duly
| elected Vice-President of the U. States.
The Senate then retired.
The Speaker then addressed the House
stating that contingencies having occurred
which devSlved on the House the duty of E.
lecting President.
The roll was then called, and the members.
as their names were read over, took their
seats by States, to the right of the Chair.
beginning with Maine, and so going on &C
cording to the order in which petitions are
called.
The Clerk having reported that there is but
one absentee, the Speaker requested of them
to prepare their ballots.
The ballot-boxes were then presented to
each State, and each State having deposited
its ballots, the Sergeant-at- Arms was directed
to take two ballot boxes, and present them to
the Tellers of each State, as the States were
called over, to receive the duplicates of the
votes of each State.
The Tellers having examined the votes. an
nounced the following result:
For J.Q. Adams, 10 States.
For Andrew Jackson, States.
For w. H. Crawford, States.
The Speaker then announced the result TO
the House, and declared John Quincy Adams
to be duly elected President of the United
States, for a years, from the 4th day of March
next.
On motion of Mr.. Taylor, a committee was
ordered to be appointed to wait on the Presi-
dent of the United States, and to wait on the
President elect, to announce to them the re-
suit Of the election and Messrs. Webster,
Vance, (of Ohio,) and Archer, were appoint
ed.
A message was also ordered, on motion of
Mr.. Taylor, to be sent to the Senate, to an
nounce the result.
THURSDAY, FEB. lO.
Mr.. Webster, from the committee appointed
for that purpose, reported that the committee
had waited on John Quincy Adams, and had
notified to. him, that, in the recent election of
President of the US. no person having receiv-
ed majority of the votes of all the electors ap-
pointed, and the choice having consequently
devolved on the House of Representatives,
that House, in the manner prescribed by the
Constitution, did, yesterday, choose him to be
President of the United States, for four yeats,
commencing on the fourth day of March
next; and that the Committee had received
a written answer, which he presented to the
House.
The committee also, in further performance
Of its duty, had given information of this elec-
ton to the President.
Mr.. .4d1ms'S .4nswer TO the Committee.
Gentlemen-In receiving this testimonial
from the Representatives of the people and
States of the Union, l am deeply sensible to
the circumstances under which it has been
given. All my predecessors in the high sta
ton to which the favor of the House now calls
me, has been honored with majorities of the
electoral voices in their primary colleges. 1t
has been my fortune to be placed, by the d.
visions of sentiment prevailing among our
countrymen on this occasion, in competition,
friendly and honorable, with three of my fell
low-citizens, all justly enjoying, in eminent
degrees, the public favor, and Of whose worth,
talents and services no one entertains high
er and more respectful sense than myself
The names of two of them were, in the full
6lment of the provisions of the Constitution,
presented to the selection Of the House, in
concurrence with my own-names closely as
ISOLATED with the glory Of the nation, and one
OF them further recommended by larger mi
nority Of the primary electoral suffrages than
mine.
In this state Of things, could my refusal to
accept the trust thus delegated TO me, give an
immediate opportunity to the people to form
and to express, with nearer approach to
unanimity, the object of their preference,
should not hesitate to decline the acceptance
of this eminent charge, and to submit the de
cison OF this momentous question again to
their determination. But the Constitution il
self has not so disposed Of the contingency
which would arise in the event of my re-
fusal.
| shall, therefore, repair to the post assign
ed me by the call of my country, signifed
through her constitutional organs; oppressed
with the magnitude of the task before me, but
cheered with the hope of that generous sup
port from my fellow-citizens which, in the vi
cissitudes of a life devoted to their service,
has never failed to sustain me. Confident in
the trust that the wisdom of the Legislative
Councils will guide and direct me in the path
of my official duty, and relying, above all, up
on the experimenting Providence of that be-
ing in whose hands our breath is, and whose
are all our ways"