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The Suppressed History of the Administration of John Adams,
The Suppressed History of the Administration of John Adams Author:John Wood Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: total number of electors was one hundred and thirty-eight— each of these voted either for Mr. Jefferson or Mr. Adams. But Plater voted for both. Hence, instead o... more »f one hundred and thirty-eight, the suffrages came to one more—thus they mounted up to one hundred and thirty-nine. Of these, Mr. Adams had seventy one, and Mr. Jefferson sixty-eight. Laying aside the Maryland vote of Plater, Mr. Adams will then have seventy, and Mr. Jefferson sixty-seven — returning to Mr. Jefferson the Green county vote in Pennsylvania, and striking out the spurious vote in the western district of Maryland, will make an odds of two votes—abstract these two from the majority of seventy, and then Mr. Adams has only sixty-eight. Then add these two to the sixty-seven for Mr. Jefferson, and he is president by a majority of one. CHAPTER II. Speech of Mr. Mams—Speech of Mr. Jefferson—Remar/cs —British Piracy—Mr. Monroe's Embassy. On Saturday, the 6th of March, 1797, Mr. Adams, as president of the United States, attended in the chamber of the House of Representatives to take his oath of office, according to the direction of the constitution. On his entrance, as well as on the entrance of General Washington and Mr. Jefferson, loud and reiterated applause burst from the audience. Having taken his seat on the elevated chair of the speaker of the House of Representatives, the vice-president, General Washington, and the secretary of the Senate, on his right, the speaker and clerk of the House of Representatives on his left, and the chief justice of the United States, and associate judges, at a table in the centre, he proceeded to deliver the following speech: "When it was first perceived, in early times, that no middle course for America remained between unlimited submission to a foreign legislature, and ...« less