on of Kansas--Nocturnal Row in
the House--The North Victorious.

CHAPTER XLIV.
POLITICIANS, AUTHORS, AND HUMORISTS.
Wade, of Ohio--Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi--Johnson, of Arkansas
--Anthony, of Rhode Island--Trollope, of England--One of Mike
Walsh's Jokes--Albert Pike's Wake--The Sons of Malta.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS [omitted]

LIST OF AUTOGRAPHS

ANDREW JACKSON
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
WILLIAM HARRIS CRAWFORD
EDWARD EVERETT
HENRY CLAY
JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN
SILAS WRIGHT, JR.
DANIEL WEBSTER
THOMAS HART BENTON
RICHARD MENTOR JOHNSON
ALEXANDER HAMILTON STEPHENS
ANDREW STEVENSON
WILLIAM RUFUS KING
MARTIN VAN BUREN
TRISTRAM BURGESS
WILLIAM LEARNED MARCY
THOMAS CORWIN
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON
THOMAS EWING
FRANKLIN PIERCE
RUFUS CHOATE
FELIX GRUNDY
CALEB CUSHING
STEPHEN ARNOLD DOUGLAS
JAMES KNOX POLK
HENRY STUART FOOTE
ZACHARY TAYLOR
ROBERT CHARLES WINTHROP
WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD
MILLARD FILLMORE
ROBERT JAMES WALKER
JEFFERSON DAVIS
JOHN JORDAN CRITTENDEN
THADDEUS STEVENS
JOHN TYLER
LEWIS CASS
GEORGE WASHINGTON
ABBOTT LAWRENCE
NATHANIEL PRENTISS BANKS
WINFIELD SCOTT
JOHN BUCHANAN FLOYD
PETER FORCE
HOWELL COBB
GEORGE BANCROFT

PERLEY'S REMINISCENCES.

VOL. I.

CHAPTER I.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS BECOMES PRESIDENT.

John Quincy Adams was elected President of the United States by
the House of Representatives on February 9th, 1825. At the tenth
popular election for President, during the previous autumn, there
had been four candidates: Andrew Jackson, then a Senator from
Tennessee, who received ninety-nine electoral votes; John Quincy
Adams, of Massachusetts, then Secretary of State under President
Monroe, who received eighty-four electoral votes; William H.
Crawford, of Georgia, then Secretary of the Treasury, who received
forty-one electoral votes, and Henry Clay, of Kentucky, then Speaker
of the House of Representatives, who received thirty-seven electoral
votes--in all two hundred and sixty-one electoral votes. As neither
candidate had received the requisite majority of one hundred and
thirty-one electoral votes, the election of a President devolved
upon the House of Representatives, in which body each State would
have one vote. As the Constitution required that the choice of the
House be confined to the three highest candidates on the list of those
voted for by the electors, and as Mr. Clay was not one of the three,
he was excluded. Exercising, as he did, great control over his
suppo