Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-12-08

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Georee Washington died 4 nount vss-
non on The l4th u Dscember. 1899, in the
bsth year Of bis age. Death came sudden
y - HIM 80 suddenly. that the tidings Of
bis s,ckncss and his decease simultaneously
reached tle i,slh Of Coner :. :.
John Adams came to "the end Of living
At his residence in Quincy, Mass, on the
Ath Of July, 1925, reas'Aing ~hat day n ~as,
and rejoicing sit lie gradually and quiet
" expired at the pstrlarchAl age Of four
score years and ten.
.TheD1 Jesesson, BY IN extysoedinast
| coincidence. brea,hed his last At Monticello
on the same day that his venerable compa-
triot dams died-the Jubilee o. american
Independence lie had reached the I'd
vanced age Of eighty three.
James Madison, the imam OF the Consti-
tution." and one Of the wisest statesmen our
country has produced. peacefully closed his
earthly career ct Montpelier, VI, on the
2sth Of June, 1886. 10 his eighty
year.
james Monroe died in the city Of New
York on the 4sh Of July, 1881, in bis eight
ie,h year. He was pure patriot. and the
last oi the Presidents Who served in the
cventful days Of the Notwithstanding
been Colonel in the Continental army
He particularly enjoyed the confidence OF
Washington. and the period of his WISE and
peaceful administration WIS characterized
As the IRA ofgood feeling
John Quincy Adams expired in the Capt
tol at Washington, on the 23d ~ February,
1913; literally dying in his country's ser
vice, at the sye II sigh v-one. Ioythe last
he vas Of the class Of hfe's busy men and
id nufied as he had been from boy hoo0
with tho public service, n MAS soiemnly
striking and appropriate that the halls Of
the national councils should hear his dying
words De was struck by paraly sis while
in his seat in the House of Represents
tives.
Andrex Jackson died at the Hermitage,
near Nashville, on the Slh Of June, lS45. ia
h,s seventy ninth year. He must have been
"a great mar, indeed, who could cluster the
affections 81 whole people around HIN -
this dist ngu,shed s..l.i,er and patriot did,
His popularity had no parallel but tnat Of
WashIngt' -.
Martin Van Buren, died at his birth place,
Kind-rhook, Columbia county, y. T., on
the oath Of July, 1862, IN his eigh'ieth
year. lis adninlstsa, iOn from 1887 - lS4l,
was period masked by great financial dis
tress throughout the country, which was
charged by his politi,a nj opponents up the
policy be pursued in managing the public
finances through the agency Of the indie
pendent treasury. lie failed re-nomina
ton for second term, however, on account
Of his opposition to the annexation IF
Texas
william Henry Harrison died on the 4th
Of April, le4i exactly one month after his
Inauguration. aged sixty eight. lie was
the firs' President who died in office, and
at the Executive Mansion lie had gained
deep hold upon the peoples ART, and
no one living at the time can ever forget
the profound and universal expressions of
sympathy and sorrow VI ich his death &C
casipred.
John TYLER, elected Vice President, and
who succe, d, i Gen. Harrison for the re-
malnder of his tenn, renowned his allcgl-
auce to the United States n 1861, and died
the following year in Richmond, Va, in
his seventy second year: being at the time
senator Of Virginia in the Confederate
Congress, tn in session at Richmond.
James Knox Polk died at his home in
Tennessee, on the 18th OF June, 1919, only
three months alter the expiration OF his
term Of office, and in his ty-iourth year.
lie was man of unquestionable ability
and talent, and achieved the highest honor
his country could bestow at a much earlier
age than any his predecessors.
Zachary Taylor,> death, On the 9th Of Ju-
w, $50, when he had been hut sixteen
months in office, called forth the deepest
expires sions Of nations grief, ard every
where The full heart OF the people was touch
ed bcyond what adequate words can utter.
!!e died at the Presidential mansion, in his
sixty sixth wear.
Abraham Lincoln's d., ath, on the l4th Of
April, 1915, tone month and ten days after
second .naug uratiop) was one that shocked
the country beyond anything that ever oc-
Cured in its history, and sent sent thrill
Of horror throughout the world. All his
predecessors had decended 10 the tomb in
the ordinary course Of nature, but it was
reserved for him to fall-by the fnul hand
OF the assassin His character and admin
istration are toOfi,.sh in p''blic recollec--
ion to ne, i any comment. He died in his
fifty seventh YER.
Washington, Jefferson, Mad son Monroe,
jackson and Lincoln. were the only Presi
dents twice chosen to the high Office.
The present Chief Magist ate Of the Uni
ted States is the sereht,snM in success sion.
OF The sixteen former ones, but three w
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