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ADAMS' NOMINATION TO THE PRESIDENCY--SPIRITED PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN--NO CHOICE BY THE PEOPLE--ELECTION GOES TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES--MR.

ADAMS ELECTED PRESIDENT--HIS INAUGURATION-- FORMS HIS CABINET.
James Monroe was the last of the illustrious line of Presidents whose claims to that eminent station dated back to the revolution.

A grateful people had conferred the highest honors in their gift upon the most conspicuous of those patriots who had faithfully served them in that perilous struggle, and aided in constructing and consolidating the union of these States.

This debt punctually and honorably discharged, they looked to another generation, possessing claims of a different description, for servants to elevate to the dignity of the presidential chair.
In the midst of a large class of public men who had in the mean time become conspicuous for talents and services of various descriptions, it is no matter of surprise that the people of the United States should entertain a diversity of opinions in regard to the most suitable individual to fill a station which had hitherto been occupied by men whose virtues and whose patriotism had shed the brightest lustre on the American name and character throughout the world.