Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-12-09
CurlOsitics of American History.

The American political history is full
of curiosities and singular Incidents
For instance, three of our Presidents, OF
| whom participated in the revolution, died
on its great anniversary, the 4th of July,
| viz: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and
James Monroe. General Washington,
| when he retired from the Presidency,
was in the sixty-sixth year of his age
His successor, John Adams, when he left,
was sixty-six years old. After him came
| Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and
James Monroe. Mr.. Jefferson was sixty
six, James Madison had just passed his
sixty-sixth year, and Mr.. Monroe was in
his sixty-seventh when they respectively
left the Presidential chair General Har-
| rison was sixty-scven years old when he
was elected, and died in the Presidential
office.
From 1901 TO 1920 the Presidential
Office was filled by Virgnians During
the same interval, with the exception Of
| four years, tho Vice Presidential office
was held by New York John Adams
| negotiated the treaty Of peace that con-
| Guided the war Of the Revolution with
England. His son, john Quincy Adams,
was leading envoy, and negotiated the
| treaty which ended the second war with
England in 1911 His son Charles Fran
els Adams, at the third great crisis Of our
history, was our Minister to England
during tho recent war. from 1861 to 1860
tho period which cogors the Alabama
claims, out Of which another war il alto.
gethcr possible with the old mother
country.
| In 1900, John Adana was on n leading
Presidential ticket. Twenty four yoarr
after, his aon, John Quincy Adam, was
also !, Presidential candidate. Twenty.
four years from that time, Chnrlep frtncip
| Adams, John Quinoy'a son, WIS nn i'm.
portant candidate for Vipo ffcsidont
| with a contingent Fraaidcntiai succession
No lesS than five II tho groatcat d
American statesmen were born Ia .the
samo year $50 Daniel Wcbatcr. John
O. Calhoun, Thomas II. Eenton, Martin
Van Buren, aud Lewis Cass. Prom 1900
to 1900, a period spanning from tlc acc.
ond Preaidont to the Boyoutemth, anly
two persons filed Tho office II Chicf Jus.
tice Of the Supreme Court of tho United
States. John Marshall aud Roger y "a
| ney
The first Secretary Of tho lre,aury d
the United States, Alexander Hamilton
was alleged to be detaulter.
The Capital Of the United States was
| located at Washington in pursuance of a
corrupt bargain, by which two or three
| members of Congress, who lived adjacent
| to it, and whose districts would be greatly
| benefited by it, voted for the funding Of
the national debt for that consideration.
| But two men in the United States have
az thoy say in Odd Fellowship, passed
| through all the "chairs," been Governor.
| of States, held first class foreign missions
been the head Of the Cabinet, then Vice
President and President. Their names are
Thomas Jefferson and Martin Van Buren,
Three President died in Office Harri-
son, Tyler and Lincoln.
Three presons were elected by the
people Vice Presidents before they became
Presidents--John Adams, Thomas Jeffer-
son and Martin Van Buren,.
Three Vice Presidents died III office
George Clinton, Elbridgc Gerry and VIM.
II. King
Three men were elected President who
| had been ministers to England under the
| Federal Government. q. Adams, Mar
| tin Van Buren, and James Buchanan.
! Three Presidents became Presidents
| by the death of their chiefs-John Tyler,
! Willard Fillmore and Andrew Johnson
and every one Of them perusod policy
adverse to that Of tho party by which
they were elected.
| Two Of the Nice-Presiden.5 vi tho United
States-and they the youngest men who
ever held the ollioe-have been indicted
for treasop-Aaron Burr and John g.
Breckenridge, and in each instance the
government broke down and dismissed
| the case without even putting II to the
jury
One vice-P President, John C.Calhoun re-
signed his seat IA President Of the Senate,
| to take place on the floor, where he could
have the privilege of debate, and there
clucidate his state rights views under the
| constitution.