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a Robert II. HarrlSon.s James armstrong;.
4 lohn Rutledge .- Edward Teliair....
John Hancock. k..:... Benz Lincoln...... l
/ GEORGE WAsHINGToN was therefore declared


unanimously elected President and JOHN ADAMS
] Vice President of the United States. 1t will be
= Observed that Mr.. Adams did notreceive ma jor.
4 ity of the Electoral votes, 80 being scattered
! among ten other candidates. have been told by


an old Federalist. (since deceased who was quite


pnyersant with our Political History, that Mr..
4 Adams was dissatisfied with the vote he received,
and thought it was due to him that the same num-
Z ber Of votes shosld have been given to him as to
General Washington, leaving it 10 the House OF
representatives. TO decide between them, (as they
( lid twelve wears afterwards between Jefferson
1 md Bury This would seem hardly probable,
4 t,no man held Washington higher in estimation
4 han did Mr.. Adams, or expressed more gratifca-
soa than he did at his election as President
sWhere," says he in his Inaugural Address to the
4 Senate, shall we find one whose commanding
heHts aud virtues, whose over.ruhns good fortune


have so completely united all hearts and all voices
shs favor; who enjoyed the esteem and admra-


ion Of foreign nations, and his fellow citizens with
EQUAL unanimiiv? Qualities so uncommon are no
! ccmuon blessing TO the Country that possesses
them. BY those great qualities and their benign


ELECTS has Providence marked out the head ot this


oaton with hand so distinctly visible, as to have
Seea seen BY all men and mistaken by none.


Oh the other persons voted for by the Electors
fer V;ca u 80; L., ~, ,,,,es of Iohn JaV John


hancock aud George Clinton arc familiar to al


readers Robert Hanson Harrison was Chez


Justice of the General Court of Maryland. dc


declined in 1889 The appointment of Judge OF the


supreme Court Of the United States and died in


1870, aged IS. Samuel Huntington was Governor
: OF Connecticut and etc of the Signers of the


Declaration OF Independence. Jehn Rutledge OF
South Carolina was member of the Convention
thar framed the Constitution, and in 1896 Chief
Justice Of The L. S. Supreme Court. Edward


Ielfair Of Georgia, member of Congress from
Ia To '83 and Governor of the State. Benjamin
Lincoln OF Mass. was Major General during the
Revolution. John Milton and James Arms,rsns


who were voted for BY the Georgia Electors, W,
believe. were not conspicuous enough, as puhls
men, to be named by American biosraphers.


The fest Congress held three sessions; the wv
FIRST AZ New York. the third al Philadelphia. Tn
Time of meeting OF the FIRST session was fixed &c
The 9Th of March 1899, but only eight Senator
and thirteen Members of the House of Represen


at'ses convened on that day. quorum of III


House was not formed until the 1st Of April, whe
= Ftederick A Muhlenbers of Pennsylvania wa
Selected Speaker, aud John Beskley Clerk. tt