The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-02-24
lin CONGRESS- OF THE U. STATES
Thirtieth ConSress-Fir.t Session.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY "a, ls4s
HOUSE OF REPREsENTATI
The journal having been read
DECEASE or MR.. ADAMS
The SPEAKER rose and said

81 DEcEAsE OF MR.. ADAMS.
J The SPEAKER rose and said
Gentlemen Of the House of of The Uiteo
9nfdS: III has been thought fit that the Chair should an.
Rnounce oc'ay to the House event already known 10
She members individually, and which has filled all oul
seat on this floor has been vacated towards which
interest nv common
|ence 100
a venerable form has faded from our sight, around
4gaTd.
name has been stricken from the roll of the living
statesmen OF our land, which has been associated for
more than half century with the highest civil service
land the Hottest civil renown.
On Monday, the 2st inst, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS sunk
n MS SCAT IN presence OF us all, by sudden illness,
rom which he recovered; and he died in the
'opeakers room at quarter past O'Clock last even
ng with the officers of the House and the delegation OF
ms own Massachusetts around him.
Vast learning, accumulated public honors spotess pi
ayae character and firm religious faith could do rem
ader any one an object OF interest respect and admiration
iey nad done Tor tins distinguished person and inter-
dest' respect ana admiration but feeble terms to ex
3pfess the feelings with which the members of this House
anu ihe people Oh tle country have long regarded him.
AFTER Ire OF eighty years, devoted from It's earliest
3matuty 10 the public service he has length gone ,o
This rest
He has been privileged 10 die at his post 10 fall while
me discharge OF his duties; TO expire beneath the root
1eyer IN history with the birthday of that ilustrious pa
Irot whose Just dscernment brought him first into The
service OF his country.
The close of such life under such circum is
Iho an event Tor uninnged emotions We cannot find in
our hearts to regret that he has died he has died He
himself could have desired no other end This is the
9end OF earlh were his last words, uttered the day or
(which be fell But we might almost hear him eyclam.
Ing AZ he left in language hardly less familiar 10
hun than his native iongue-"Iloe est nmirum mog@
3fettcder de rita W'gfofe, guam morn"
1t is for others 10 suggest what honors shall be paid
ms memory No acts OF ours necessary to his fame
but may be due to ourselves and the country thai
national sense OF his character and his should
3be fifty commemorated.
Mr. HUDSON rose and said
Mr. SPEAKER; rise with ordinary emotion to per-
Horn painful duty which has been assigned me By my
colleagues growing out of which has recently
occurred IN the midst OF the announcement of which
dhas just been made BY the Chair My late venerable col
eleague is no more! great and good man has fallen
tie has been stricken down in the midst of us, while in
6the discharge OF his public duties One whose public
services are coeva with the establishment of gov
ernmcnt-one who has come down to us from past gene
ations and OF whom il might almost be said that he
LIVING in the midst OF posterltyan example and 10
those who come after ushas ceased from his abors,
land gone to his reward. The peculiar circumstances of
death are known TO every member of this House, and
fare calculated TO make deep and lasting impression
hey weigh so heavily upon my own mind and feelings,
that am almost inclined believe that silence is the
most appropriate token OF grief and the most suta-
! BILE tribute 10 his memory.
john Quincy ADAMS was born on the nth day OF
6Juy, 1857, IN that part Of Braintree, Massachusetts,
(which was subsequently incorporated into town by the
name OF Quincy, and hence in the eghtyrs year of
his age In IT'S when he was but eleven years Of age
The accompanied his father JOHN ADAMS to France who
was sent with BENJAMIN FRANKLIN and ARTHER LEE as
commissioners to the court of Versailles After remain
hing in France about eighteen months during which time
The applied himself closely to the study of the French and
Latin languages, he returned to his country in Au-
gust! 1879 In November OF the year his father
aan despatched 10 Europe for the discharge of diplomat
Tic services, and took his JOHN Quincy with hl
lat Paris hswas pEt TO school; and when in $780, John
Adams removed to Holland his enjoyed the advanta
THE University at Leyden Francis Dana, who accom-
panied John Adams secretary to the embassy received
In ISL the appointment OF minister penpoteptiary to
Russia. and took John Quincy Adams, then fourteen
years of age, with him his private secretary Here he
remained I'LL October, 1882, when he left Mr. Dana al
lSt Pe,crsburgh and returned through Sweden Denmark
Hamburg, and Bremen, Holland, where he remained
some months, till his father took him to Paris at the
4tme of the signing OF the treaty of peace in 1888 From
THAT time till 1885 he with his father in England,
Holland, and France; during the whole of which period
The was close student.
AT the age of eighteen at his own request, his father
permitted him TO return to Massachusetts, where he en-
7tered Harvard University and was graduated in 7S7wth
distinguished honors Soon after leaving college he en-
tered the Office of the celebrated Theophus Parsons af
terwards Chief Justice of Massachusetts, where he
maned the usual period OF three years in the study OF the
law, when he entered the profession, and established
himself at Boston.
In 1894 General Washington appointed him resident
minister 10 the United Netherlands From that period
mess, and public minister in Holland England, and
Prussia Just Gen Washington retiring from of
1ce, he appointed Mr. ADAMS minister penpotentiary to
THE of Portugal While on his way to Lisbon he
received commission, changing his destination 10
Berlin During his residence of about three years and
half at Berlin, he concluded an important commercial
treaty with Prussa--thus accomplishing the object OF
his mission He recalled the close OF his Ia
hers administration, and arrived in his native country in
.September lS0l
In 1902 he was chosen by the Boston district to the
Senate of Massachusetts, and after was elected by
1.-The legislature senator in Congress for SIX years from
March g. 1903 lie remained in the Senate of the United
States until 1906 when he resigned While in the Sen
ate he received the appointment OF professor OF rhetoric
lin Harvard Universiiy-an Office which he filled with
= distinguished ability.
In 1909 he was appointed by President Madison envoy
Extraordinary and minister penpOtentay to the court OF
Russia where he rendered the most important to
his country BY his influence with that court, he induced
Russia offer her mediation between Great Britain and
= the United States in the war of 1912 and when the
proper time had arrived he was placed by President
Madison the head OF FIVE distinguished commissioners,
10 negotiate n treaty of peace, which concluded at
1(,hent in ISlI Mr.. ADAMS then associated witt
Mr.. Clay and Mr. Gallatn TO negotiate commercial
convention with Great Britain, and was forthwith ap
pointed minister plenpoentary to the court OF st James
While in Europe, in 1871, he received the appointment
of associate Justice of the Supreme Court Of the United
States, which he declined.
After remaining in England till the close OF President
adisons administration he called home, and placed
by President Monroe at the head OF the Department OF
State where he remained eight years.
In 1925 he was chosen by the House OF Representatives
President of the United States for the term OF four years
Ga leaving the presidency in 1929, he returned 70 ms ma
tive place in Massachusetts, and IN 1881 ne was eiec,el
member of this House; and by the Tree suiges OF me
peope has been continued in that office to the day OF hls