In many things we differed; on many questions of public interest and policy we were divided, and in the history of parties in this country there is no man from whom I have so widely differed as from him.

But in other things we have harmonized; and now there is no man with whom I more thoroughly agree on all points than I do with him.

But one word more let me say, before I leave you and him, birds of passage as we are, bound to a warmer and more congenial clime,--that among all public men with whom I have been associated in the course of my political life, whether agreeing or differing in opinion from him, I have always found him to be an honest and honorable man." In the road to harmony Mr.Adams had to do the traveling.

Mr.Gallatin never changed his political opinions.

The political career of the two men offered this singular contrast: Adams, dissatisfied with his party, passed into opposition; Gallatin, though at variance with the policy of the administration of which he made a part, held his fealty, and confined himself to the operations of his own bureau.
For a period far beyond the allotted years of man Mr.Gallatin retained the elasticity of his physical nature as well as his mental perspicacity.