Then deduct the constitutional allowance for the slave vote in the slave States, as given by their masters.

It will not be pretended that this is a popular vote, though constitutional.Gen.Jackson obtained fifty-five electoral votes, more than half his entire vote, and Mr.Adams only six from slave States.
It will therefore be seen, that on the principle of a popular plurality, carried out, and carried through, (it ought not to stop for the advantage of one party,) Mr.Adams, in the election of 1824, was FAR AHEAD of Gen.
Jackson." [Footnote: Colton's Life and Times of Henry Clay.] On the 4th of March, 1825, John Quincy Adams was inaugurated as President of the United States, and took the executive chair, which had been entered twenty-eight years before by his venerated father.

The declaration of that father in reference to the son, when a lad--"He behaves like a man!"-- had gathered strength and meaning in the lapse of years.

The people of the American republic, taught by a long series of faithful and eminent services, in the fulfilment of the prophetic words, placed him in a position the most elevated and honorable, the most worthy the aim of a pure and patriotic ambition, that earth can afford! The scene at the inauguration was splendid and imposing.

At an early hour of the day the avenues leading to the capitol presented an animated spectacle.