Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-03-23

In 1902 he was elected from the Boston dis
trict a member of the Massachusetts Senate, and
was soon after appointed by the legislature Of
TINT State senator in the Congress of the Uni
ted States for six yelrs from the 4th of Mlrch,
1893. As his views of public duty led hun to
adopt course which he haG reason to believe
was dslgreeabe to the legislature of the State
he represented, he resigned his sent il March,
1893. In Mrch 1899, President Madison nom
inqted him Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
IPlenpotentiary to the Court Of Russia.
Some time previous to this, however, in 1895
he hld been appointed Professor of Rhetoric in
Harvard University, at Cambridge, in Massa-
chusetts. So extraordinary were his powers Of
elocution, so lervid his imaginative faculties, AM
so rich his resources of literature and language
that his lectures, which we're afterwards pub
lshed in two octave volumes, were thrOngcd not
only by the students of the University, but by
urge numbers Of the admirers of eIoquence and
genius, who came from Boston and the neighbour
ing towns to listen to them.
Mr.. Adams signallzed himself while in Rus
sin, by an energetic. flthfuI, and wise dlschlrye
of the trust committed to him. lie succeed ID
in m king such an Impression upon tn 1t govern
ment, by his relsonlngs and Influence, TINT it
has ever since been of inc lIcuI be benefit to
this country. 1t was through his Instrument H.
ty that the Russia court was induced to tike
active measures to promote plci3 ltlon between
ElgIlnd and the United Suites during the last
war.
When the proper time came he was named at
the held of the five commissioners who were
appointed by President NJ rdlson to negotiate a
treaty of pelce with Great Brltlin. This cele-
brated diplomatic trans lction took place at
Ghelt, in December, 1914 Mr. Adlms then
proceeded, in conjunction with Henry Clay and
Albert G,Illtin, who hid been associated with
him i'll concluding the treaty of peace, to nego-
lite a convention of commerce with Gre 1t
Britain, and he was forthwith appointed by Pres
lent Madison PIenipotentilry at the court OF
ST INES. After hlvIng occupied TINT post un-
til the close of President Mldlsun's admlnlstrl-
ton, he WAS at length clIIel hlme, in 1917, to
the he I'd or the dep trtnelt Of Stlte, at the form
ltion Of the clbinet of President Monroe While
Secretary Of Stlte, an Office which he held durin
the eight We IRIS Of President NJ ,nroes ad niul>rI-
ton, he dlsch IT. ed his duties in such mlnner
as to incre Use the confidence Of his countrymen
in his ability and patriotism.
In the Presidential election which took pl ice
in the fall of 1924, Mr.. Albums was one of the
candid ties. No candidate received a mll nrIty
of electoral votes. When, on the Oh of Fec.
rulry, 1925, the two Houses of Congress met III
convention, in the hail of the Houses of Repre-
sentatlyes, to- open, and count, and decllre the
elector votes, it was found tn 1t Andrew Jackson
hid 80 votes, John Quincy Adlms 81 votes
Will I'm H. Crawford Al votes, and Henry Clay
81 votes. According to the requirements of the
Constitution, the Sen tie thea withdrew, and the
| House remained to ballot for President, until d
choice should be effected,
Tne whole number of Safes were twenty
four. The votes Of thirteen States were neces-
slry for choice At the first ballot it was
found that Maine, New Hampshire Mlssrchu-
SETS Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New
York, NJ IryI md. Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, MIS-
souri, and Louisiana, thirteen States, had votec
for John Quincy Adams, Of Mass lchusetts.'
and he was accordingly elected President o! the
United States for four years from the 4th OF Marcel
1925.
In retiring from the Presidency in 1929, Mr.
Adams returned to his f,mily mansion in GUM
cy where he remalned, III quiet retirement un
til he was chilled into public life, once more, by
The people Of the congressional district to which
! he belonged
He took his seat in the House of Representa-
tives of the United States in 1881, and held i
by successive reflections till the close of hi
life, and died under the roof ofthe Capitol.