The National tribune., 1900-11-01
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By MARY S. LOCKWOOD.
Copyrighted, 1900, by THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
John Quincy Adams.

, He was escorted to the Senate Chamber,
where the oath of office was administered
to Nice-PreSident John c. Calhoun. \ few
| minutes before y the marShalS, in blue
ScarfS, made their appearance in the Rep
rcSentativeS Chamber. followed by the Of
! ficers of both Houses of Congress, con-
| Quoting the PreSident-elect, the eX-PreSi-
dent and family, and the Judges of the Su-
preme Court in their robes of office. Then
I came the members of the Senate, preceded
by the Nice-PreSident and the members of
the House.
Mr.. Adams, who showing what a pro-
tective tariff could do. was dressed in a
suit of plain black cloth wholly of Ameri-
can wool and of American manufacture,
ascendcd the steps to the Speakers chair.
The doors were closed, and Mr.. Adams
read in clear tones his Inaugural address.
As the last sentence died away general
round of applause from the gallery and
throughout the hall greeted the still Presi-
dent-eect. He descended from the chair,
took a stand on the right of the Chief
Justice, Marshall, and received from him
Il volume of the laws of the United States,
from which he read in clear voice the
oath of office. At the conclusion of the
reading of the oath cheer upon cheer rent
the air, and outside the booming of can
non announced that the Inaugural services
were over and that John Quincy Adams
were over it has been told from eye-wit
nesses that the meeting of the President
and his predecessor, eX-President Monroe,
with whom there had been such close fel
lowship, was touchingly affecting.
Gen. Jackson, though Il defeated candi
date, was among the first to take the hand
of the President, and the friendly grasp
of each might well be a lesson to those
who can see no merit in rival and fail
to reap the lesson that if competitor is
honored his opponent shares in that honor,
President Adams returned to his resi-
dence on f street. A great ball was given
in honor of the occasion at the Assembly
Rooms in the evening, and was attended
by the President and Mrs. Adams, the
Vice-President, and all the dignitaries of
the Nation.
We very much doubt if that Inaugural
Bali in any respect was more elegant in
appointments or was complimented by the
attendance of more noted people than the
ball of Mrs. Adams given in honor of An
drew Jackson, the hero of New Orleans,
in this same L street house, when Mr..
Adams was Secretary of State to Presi-
dent Monroe. Mrs. Adams Oouisa Cath
crime Johnson) was born in the city of
London on Feb. II, 1175. Her father was
Mr.. Joshua johnson, of Maryland, who a
the time of his daughters marriage be
lOnged to the American Embassy in Lon
don. Mrs. Adams was not only born in
London, but was educated and married
there.
Her advantages were far superior to
most women of that day. Mrs. Adams |
wrote poetry, played the harp and trans
lated Plato to her sons. She proved her |
self fully competent to act her part social |
ly in all political circles in which her hus
bands many and varied positions placed |
her. She went with her husband to Rus |
sia when President Madison made him |
Minister to that country.
1t was no holiday trip n hundred years |
ago to cross the Atlantic, but Mrs. Adams |
with moral courage left her two oldest |
children at home in America and, taking |
from Boston in August and arrived in St |
Petersburg the last of October. 1t is |
doubtful if there was in six years of the |
history of the world Ghe number they |
stayed in Russia) an era of such intense |
interest and such evolutions among ma
tons.
The war of 1912 between America and
England broke out, and communication |
was cut off, and Napoleon seemed TO have |
the destinies of the old world in his grasp. |
In May, 1915, they returned to London. |
Mr. Adams was Minister to St. James.
and they once more were united with thel |
children. They had four children, three
sons and daughter: George. born in Ber
lin; John, born in Boston; Charles Fran
cis, born in Boston, and Louise Catherine,
born in st. Petersburg and died the fol
lowing year.
Through all these varied scenes and
places Of position we see how well the
training had been that fitted Mrs. Adams