undred and ninety-four votes,--the whole number,--and Martin Van Buren,
the only other candidate for the Presidency, had sixty. Mr. Adams
remarked that this inauguration was celebrated with demonstrations of
popular feeling unexampled since that of Washington, in 1789, and at the
same time with so much order and tranquillity that not the slightest
symptom of conflicting passions occurred to disturb the enjoyments of
the day. Many thousands of people from the adjoining, and considerable
numbers from distant states, were assembled to witness the ceremony.

On the 4th of April, 1841,--precisely one calendar month after his
inauguration,--President Harrison died. On this occasion Mr. Adams thus
expressed himself:

"The first impression of this event here, where it occurred, is of
the frailty of all human enjoyments, and the awful vicissitudes
woven into the lot of mortal man. He had reached, but one short
month since, the pinnacle of honor and power in his own country. He
lies a lifeless corpse in the palace provided by his country for his
abode. He was amiable and benevolent. Sympathy for his suffering and
his fate is the prevailing sentiment of his fellow-citizens. The
bereavement and distress of his family are felt intensely, albeit
they are strangers here, and known scarcely to any one.

"The influence of this event upon the condition and history of the
country can scarcely be foreseen. It makes the Vice-President of the
United States, John Tyler, of Virginia, acting President of the
Union for four years, less one month.

"Tyler is a political sectarian, of the slave-driving, Virginian,
Jeffersonian school; principled against all improvement; with all
the interests and passions and vices of slavery rooted in his moral
and political constitution; with talents not above mediocrity, and a
spirit incapable of expansion to the dimensions of the station on
which he has been cast by the hand of Providence, unseen, through
the apparent agency of chance. To that benign and healing hand of
Providence I trust, in humble hope of the good which it always
brings forth out of evil. In upwards of half a century this is the
first instance of a Vice-President being called to act as President
of the United States, and brings to the test that provision of the
constitution which places in the executive chair a man never thought
of for