apartment; whereupon the House in solemn stillness immediately adjourned. The same thing occurred on the following morning. The Senate also, and the Supreme Court, testified their grief by suspending all business."

On the day after the death of Mr. Adams, at the usual hour for the meeting of the House, Robert C. Winthrop, the Speaker, in formally announcing the event, said :—

"GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE of RepreseNTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES:

'It has been thought fit that the Chair should announce officially to the House an event already known to the members individually, and which has filled all our hearts with sadness.

"A seat on this floor has been vacated, towards which all eyes have been accustomed to turn with no common interest.

"A voice has been hushed forever in this hall, to which all ears have been wont to listen with profound reverence.

"A venerable form has faded from our sight, around which we have daily clustered with an affectionate regard.

"A name has been stricken from the roll of the living statesmen of our land, which has been associated, for more than half a century, with the highest civil service, and the loftiest civil

renown.

The usual eulogistic addresses were then made, by Hudson, of Massachusetts, Holmes, of South Carolina, Vinton, of Ohio, McDowell, of Virginia, Benton, of Missouri, and others; resolutions customary on such occasions were passed, and committees appointed to look after the funeral rites. President Polk issued a proclamation announcing Mr. Adams's death; and on Saturday, the 26th of February, in the House of Representatives, under imposing circumstances the Rev. R. R. Gurley, the Chaplain of the House, delivered the funeral

oration.

The body of Mr. Adams was then conveyed to and deposited in a temporary resting-place in the Congressional Burying-ground. One of the pall-bearers

was John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina. Death and the grave for a time had crushed all human animosities, and the tongue and the pen everywhere showered praises on the wonderful old man, who had so long with sword in his hand stood across the path of evildoers.

On the following week the remains were taken from their place of deposit at Washington, and under the escort of the committee of the House, consisting of one member from each State, conveyed to Boston, for final interment at Quincy. At Faneuil Hall, in delivering up their charge to the representatives of the Legislature, the chairman of the committee said :

"Throughout the journey there have been displayed manifestations of the highest admiration and respect for the memory of your late distinguished fellow-citizen. In the large cities through which we expected to pass, we anticipated such demonstrations; but, in every village and hamlet, at the humblest cottage which we passed, and from the laborers in the field, the same profound respect was testified by their uncovered heads."

To the Mayor of Boston, Josiah Quincy, Jr., the body was then delivered, and on the 11th of March it was ceremoniously conveyed from Faneuil Hall to the residence of the family at Quincy. From this place it was taken on the same day to the now famous Congregational (Unitarian) Church where the Rev. William P. Lunt, the pastor, in the presence of the Governor, and other State officers, members of the Legislature, Congressional Committee, and a vast concourse of people, delivered an oration, the most able of all that were drawn out throughout the country in honor of him who has been called the last statesman President. The ceremony finally ended by placing

the body of Mr. Adams in the family tomb in the little burying-ground near by.

The following hymn, one of Mr. Adams's own composition, was sung in the church just preceding Mr. Lunt's discourse :

LORD OF ALL WORLDS.

Lord of all worlds, let thanks and praise
To thee forever fill my soul;

With blessings thou hast crowned my days-
My heart, my head, my hand control;
O, let no vain presumption rise,

No impious murmur in my heart,
To crave the boon thy will denies,
Or shrink from ill thy hands impart.

Thy child am I, and not an hour,
Revolving in the orbs above,
But brings some token of thy power,
But brings some token of thy love;
And shall this bosom dare repine,
In darkness dare deny the dawn,
Or spurn the treasures of the mine,
Because one diamond is withdrawn?

The fool denies, the fool alone,

Thy being, Lord, and boundless might,
Denies the firmament, thy throne,

Denies the sun's meridian light;

Denies the fashion of his frame,

The voice he hears, the breath he draws;

O, idiot atheist! to proclaim

Effects unnumbered without cause!

Matter and mind, mysterious one,

Are man's for threescore years and ten;
Where, ere the thread of life was spun?

Where, when reduced to dust again?

All-seeing God, the doubt suppress ;
The doubt thou only canst relieve;
My soul thy Savior-Son shall bless,
Fly to thy Gospel, and believe.

Charles Francis Adams subsequently placed the remains of his father and mother by the side of those of his grandparents; and hence, beneath the little granite church at Quincy now molder the ashes of these two old Presidents. In view of this quaint and interesting fact, the mayor of Boston, on receiving the body of Mr. Adams, the younger, had exclaimed :—

"It is possible that other men may be attended as he will be to the grave. But when again shall the tomb of a President of the United States open its doors to receive a son who has filled the same office?"

CHAPTER XXXIV.

END OF THE POLITICAL GOLDEN AGE-LIFE IN THE WHITE HOUSE-MR. ADAMS AND HIS FAMILY.

D

URING the early part of his diplomatic career,

Mr. Adams met Louisa Catharine Johnson; and some time afterwards, on the 26th of July, 1797, they were quietly married in a church Miss Johnson had been accustomed to attend in London. She was the daughter of Joshua Johnson, of Maryland, and niece of Governor Johnson, of that State. Her father was then Consular Agent of the United States in London, and had for several years acted in some such capacity for his Government.

Shortly after this event Mr. Adams, accompanied by his wife, set out on his mission to Berlin. She was with him in his travels in Silesia, and at all times from the first was quite equal to the public demands. made upon her without the special interference of his modeling hand. On his return to America, Mr. Adams and his family went to reside in Boston. Mrs. Adams accompanied him to Washington during his first service in Congress, in the winter of 1803. So in the subsequent sessions of his term in the Senate, she was usually in Washington. She went with him to Russia in 1809, and performed her part in the diplomatic follies of the position as creditably as did her husband his. When Mr. Adams went to Ghent in 1814, Mrs.