The Litchfield County post., 1826-07-18

 of Europe, to obtain loans and alliances, and every succour to sustain our armies and the cause of Liberty and our Indepen- dence. Nor did his labOrs cease until he had accomplished every object for which he was sent abroad, nor until he had scal- ed our Independence by treaty of Peace, which he signed, with Great Britain.
 Immediately after the Treaty of Peace, he was appointed Ambassador to Great Britain son the adoption of the COnsti- tuition he was elected first Vice President of the United States. During the whole psriod of the Presidency of Washington, Mir Adams was Vice President. He was; :; as uniformly consulted by Washington as though he had been member of his cahi- net, on all important questions. On the death of Washington, MT Adams was cleo fted his successor.
 During the administration of MT Adams, party spirit ragged without restraint. Too independent himself to wear the trammels of either party, he was warmly supported by neither. Too open for. concealment, and perfectly void of guile and intrigue, he practiccd no arts to secure himself in pow CT. At the expiration of the first term, Mir. Jefferson, the candidate of the Repub Elican party, and his successful competitor, received .yar votes more than Mir Adams. l MT Adams then retired to private life at his seat in Quincy. a. | When the foreign aspect of our country became clouded, and difficulties overshad- 1 owed it, he came forth the warmest advo- cate of the rights of the country, and of those measures of the administration cal- culated to sustain them. His letter in de- fence of our seamen against foreign im- pressment, is one of the ablest and most irresistible arguments in the English lan- guage. So satisfied were those who had been politically opposed to him, of his mer- its and services, that ne was selected by the republicans of Massachusetts, as their candidate for Governor, on the death of Gov. Sullivan-but he declined again en- tering into public life. He was one of the Electors, and President of the Electoral College, when MT. Monroe was elected President of the United States. Having been the principal draftsman of the Com stitution of this state, when the Conven- tion as>called to amend it in 1920, he was unanimously elected their President. On his decliiling this honor, unanimous reso- lutions were passed by this great assembly of five hundred, selected from all parties, expressive of their exalted sense of his merits and public services.
 The private character of President Ad- ans was perfectly pure, and unsullied and unstained. There was no Christian or moral duty which he did not fulfil the kindest of husbands and the bestmof fath- CTS. To the excellent precepts and edu- cation which he gave his children, the na- l ton are undoubtedly indebted for having at this time at their head his eldest son. President Adams was serene and tran- quill to the last. Conscious of having per- formed his duty, and of life well spent and devoted to his country, the blasts of calumny which assailed his declining years never ruff1ed the serenity of his mind. He regarded them as little as the troubled ele- ments, fol" he knew that like them they would soon subside, and that then, every thing would be like his own bosom, Peace and sunshine. To say that he had weak points and foibles, is but to say that he was a man. But his defects were those of a bold and daring spirit, an open, generous and con6ding heart. He knew no guile and fsared none. Having no selfish pur- poses to answer, he practiced no arts to ef- feet them. At the age of ninety, at the completion of half a century from the com- mencement of that revolution he had been so instrumental in ehfecting, he sunk by gradual decay into the arms of. death. He lived to see his country's liberties placed on . firm and immoveable basis, and the light of liberty which she diffused enlight- ening the whole earth. On the Jubilee of Independence, his declining faculties were reused by the rejoicings in the metropolis. He inquired the cause of thessalutes, and was told it was the fourth of July. He answered" it was great and glorious day.'' He never spake more. Thus his last words and his latest words were like those of his whole life, thoughts and words which evin- ced soul replete with love of country and interest in her welfarc.-Essc1 Register
 The following letters, in answer to the invitation to attend the late celebration at Washington, arethe last productions of the illustrious men aforementioned.
 WASHINGTON, June IA. 1926.
 SIR: As Chairman of committee an. pointed by the citizens of Washington. to, make arrangements for celebrating the Eff. tieth Anniversary of American Indepen- dence in a manner worthy of the Metropo- n .