Mr.Adams, in the hour of difficulty, will be an able helpmate, and I am convinced his appointment will afford general satisfaction." This prediction was well founded.

The consummate ability exhibited by Mr.Adams in foreign negotiations had elevated him to a high position in the estimation of his countrymen.

His selection for the State Department was received with very general satisfaction throughout the Union.
On receiving notice of his appointment to this responsible office, Mr.
Adams, with his family, embarked for the United States, on board the packet-ship Washington, and landed in New York on the 6th of August, 1817.
A few days after his arrival, a public dinner was given Mr.Adams, in Tammany Hall, New York.

The room was elegantly decorated.

In the centre was a handsome circle of oak leaves, roses, and flags--the whole representing, with much effect, our happy Union--and from the centre of which, as from her native woods, appeared our eagle, bearing in her beak this impressive scroll:-- "Columbia, great Republic, thou art blest, While Empires droop, and Monarchs sink to rest." Gov.