Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-02-12

The question was then taken on Mr..
FoRsYTH's motion to recommit-Ayes
IS, Noes go. So the motion was ne
gatived.
The bill was then read a third time
and passed.
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 United States, no per-
son having received a majority of the
votes of all the electors appointed, and
the choice having consequently devolv-
ed on the House of Representatives,
that House, in the manner prescribed
by the Constitution, did, yesterday,
choose him to be President of the Uni
ted States, for four years, commencing
on the fourth day of March next; and
that the committee had received writ
ten answer, which he presented to the
House.
The committee, also, in further per-
Torrance of its duty, had given infor-
nation of this election to the President.
Mr.. ADAMS ANSWER TO THE COMMITTEE.
Gentlemen: In receiving this testimonial
from the Representatives Of the people and
States of the Union, I am deeply sensible to
the circumstances under which it has been
given. All my predecessors in the high sta
ton to which 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 divisions of
sentiment prevailing among our countrynen
on this occasion, in competition, friendly and
honorable, with three of my fellow citizens,
all justly enjoying, in eminent degrees, the
public favor, and of whose worth, talents and
services, no one entertains higher and more
respectful sense than myself. The names of
two of them were, in the fulflment of the
provisions of the constitution, presented to
the selection of the House, in concurrence
with my own-names closely associated with
the glory of the nation; and one Of them fur.
Their recommended by larger minority 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 u
nanimity, the object of their preference, 1
should not hesitate to decline the acceptance
of this eminent charge; and to submit the de-
cision of this momentous question again to
their determination. But the constitution it.
self has not so disposed of the contingency
which would arise in the event Of my refusal.
shall, therefore, repair to the post assigned
me by the call ofmy country, signi6ed through
her constitutional organs oppressed with the
magnitude of the task before me, but cheered
with the hope of that generous support from
nv fellow-citizens which, in the vicissitudes 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, upon the superintend'
ing Providence of that being Sin whose hands
our breath is, and whose are all our ways"
Gentlemen pray you to make acceptable
to the House the assurance Of my profound
gratitude for their confidence and to accept,
yourselves, my thanks-for the friendly terms
in which you have communicated to me then
decision. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
Washington, Feb. 10, 1926.
On motion Of Mr.. CALL, (Florida,,
the House then resolved itself into
| committee of the whole, Mr.. ToMLIN.
SON in the chair, and took up the con,
sidertion of a bill to provide an add,
tional appropriation to complete the
public road from Pensacola to st. Au-
gustine, in the Territory of Florida.
Mr.. c. moved to fill the blank with
$4,000, which was agreed to.
The committee then proceeded to
| consider the bill to authorize the laying
out and opening public road from St.
Mary's river to the bay of Talpa, in the
territory Of Florida.
Mr.. CALL, moved to fill the blank in
the third section with the words $4,000
dollars, which was agreed to.
The committee then rose, and re-
ported the bills with their amendments;
the amendment in the former bill was
concurred in by the House; and the
bill was ordered to be read third time
tomorrow.
On motion the House adjourned.