The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-03-16
OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE.
How Some of the Presidents Have Retireds--
Features Of" Inauguration Day" Seldom
Seen m Haard

rendered cnange oil the lnclOSufe OF the
White House necessary, there was an
entrance facing Pennsylvania avenue-a
stone archway, with a large weeping
willow growing on each side of it. /
Mrs. Madison, who was a very bright |
woman, when congratulated on her hus-
bands Inauguration and occupation of |
the White House, said: CT don't know |
that there is much cause for cong1atu- !
lation-the President of the United !
States generally comes in at the iron |
gate and goes out at the weeping will !
lows"
John Adams, who was the first Presi- /
dent that occupied the White House,
was crushed with shame and filled with
indignation when his old friend
Thomas Jefferson, defeated him in the
presidential election of 1800 He took
what vengeance he could by continuing
to make appointments up to late hour
on the evening of March 3, and the
next morning before sunrise he left the
White House and the metropolis forever.
Washington had attended at his inaugu-
ration four years previously, but he
could not bear to witness the swearing
in of his successor. Retiring to his
farm at Quincy he devoted the remain
ing twenty-five years of his life to
political correspondence.
4 Jefferson, Madison and Monroe in
turn attended the Inauguration of their
successors and decorously vacated the
White House for their occupation with
the best of feeling But when General
Jackson was elected there was differ
ent condition of things. President
John Quincy Adams was bitterly disap-
pointed because he had not been re-
elected, while his successful competitor
was incensed by some abusive articles
which had appeared in the official
" organ" When General Jackson came
to Washington, saddened by the sud
den death of her whom he loved so de-
votedly, he refused point blank to call
on Mr.. Adams, regarding him
as her traducer. Mr.. Adams
was equally unwilling to participate IN
the triumphant Inauguration of his sue
cessor, and he removed from the White
House on the third of March. On the
fourth, as he was taking his customary
horseback ride in the vicinity of WASH
lngtOn, the booming of cannon announce
ed to him that his successor had taken
the oath of Office in front of the capitol.
The then eX-President remained in his
own house ON f street (nearly opposite
the Ebbitt house of to-day until spring,
and he received many acts of courtesy
from the citizens of Washington, includ-
ing a salute from volunteer military
company commanded by Colonel Sea-
ton, one OF the editors of the National
MtelliqeaCer.
1t may not be amiss to say Il word or
two about the Inauguration of General
Jackson, when, for the first time, the
President-elect was escorted by military
bodies as he rode on spirited horse
from the hotel ut which he had lodged
to the capitol. After he had taken the
oath and gone from the capitol to the
White House he was waited upon by
motley crowd, which soon drained the
barrels of punch which had been pre-
pared, broke the glasses and behaved
like drunken mob. Such scene had
never before been witnessed at the
White House.
When Martin Van Buren, was elected
as General Jackson's successor it was a
political family arrangement. The two
went together from the White House 10
the capitol in phaeton made from the
wood of the frigate Constitution, drawn
by four gray horses. After Mr.. Van
Buren had been inaugurated in front of
the capitol the two returned in the
same vehicle to the White House, where
the new President received his fellow
citizens. At four o'clock in the after
noon Mr.. Van Buren formally received
the foreign ministers, who, with their
suites, wore the full court dresses of
their respective countries, and he rather
astonished their dean, the Spanish min
lister, by addressing them as " the Dem
ocIatic Corps" instead of the "Diplo-
matte Corps" Four days afterward
General Jackson bade farewell to the
White House and returned TO his be-
loved A" Hermitage" to end his days,
AS the expiration of President Van
Buren's official term approached the al
dermen and common council of Wash
ington City followed the custom and
passed a vote of thanks to the outgoing
chief magistrate for the interest which
he had taken in the prosperity of the
national metropolis during his -four
years administration. These thanks
were not acceptable to Mayor Seaton,
who, with other wings, had been
excluded from the hospitalities of the
executive mansion by President Van
Buren. So the editor-mayor formally
refused to approve the complimentary
resolutions, and transmitted a veto
message to the city government giving
his reasons for this marked slight. Mr..
Van Buren was greatly annoyed, and
took good care to have the White House
ready for the occupation of his success
sor, General Harrison, whose stay there
was brief
Mr. Tyler's family We're soon sum
moned from Virginia to the White
House, and while he was President he
married the estimable lady who now re-
sides here, who turned over the White
House to Mrs James X Polk, now a
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