Where THRIFT may follow fawning.'"

On the 20th of February, 1834, Mr. Adams attended the funeral of Mr.
Wirt, on which event he thus uttered his feelings: "For the rest of the
day I was unable to attend to anything. I could think of nothing but
William Wirt,--of his fine talents, of his amiable and admirable
character; the twelve years during which we had been in close official
relation together;[3] the scene when he went with me to the capitol; his
warm and honest sympathy with me in my trials when President of the
United States; my interview with him in January, 1831, and his faithful
devotion to the memory of Monroe. These recollections were oppressive to
my feelings. I thought some public testimonial from me to his memory was
due at this time. But Mr. Wirt was no partisan of the present
administration. He had been a formal and dreaded opponent to the
reelection of Andrew Jackson; and so sure is anything I say or do to
meet insuperable obstruction, that I could not imagine anything I could
offer with the remotest prospect of success. I finally concluded to ask
of the house, tomorrow morning, to have it entered upon the journal of
this day that the adjournment was that the Speaker and members might be
able to attend the funeral of William Wirt. I wrote a short address, to
be delivered at the meeting of the house."

[3] Mr. Wirt was Attorney-General of the United States during the
four last years of Mr. Monroe's and the whole of Mr. Adams'
administration.

It appears, by the journal of the house, that, on the 21st of February,
1834, Mr. Adams, of Massachusetts, addressed the chair as follows:[4]

[4] See _Congressional Debates_, vol. X., part 2d, p. 2758.

"MR. SPEAKER: A rule of this house directs that the Speaker
shall examine and correct the journal before it is read. I therefore
now rise, not to make a motion, nor to offer a resolution, but to
ask the unanimous consent of the house to address to you a few words
with a view to an addition which I wish to be made to the journal,
of the adjournment of the house yesterday.

"The Speaker, I presume, would not feel himself authorized to make
the addition in the journal which I propose, without the unanimous
consent of the house; and I therefore now propose it before the
reading of the journal.

"I ask that, after the statement of the adjournment of the house,
there be added to the journa