“Resolved, That the Speaker appoint one member of this House from each State and Territory, as a committee to escort the remains of our venerable friend, the Honorable John Quincy Adams, to the place designated by his friends for his interment.

“Resolved, That this House, as a further mark of respect for the memory of the deceased, do adjourn to Saturday next, the day appointed for the funeral.”

In the Senate, after a formal annunciation of the death of Mr. Adams, in a message from the House of Representatives, Mr. Davis, of Massachusetts, arose and delivered a feeling address, on the life and services of the deceased patriot.  The following are extracts:—­

“Mr. President:  By the recent affliction of my colleague, (Mr. Webster,) a painful duty devolves upon me.  The message just delivered from the House proves that the hand of God has been again among us.  A great and good man has gone from our midst.  If, in speaking of John Quincy Adams, I can give utterance to the language of my own heart, I am confident I shall meet with a response from the Senate.

“He was born in the then Province of Massachusetts, while she was girding herself for the great revolutionary struggle which was then before her.  His parentage is too well known to need even an allusion; yet I may be pardoned if I say, that his father seemed born to aid in the establishment of our free Government, and his mother was a suitable companion and co-laborer of such a patriot.  The cradle hymns of the child were the songs of liberty.  The power and competence of man for self-government were the topics which he most frequently heard discussed by the wise men of the day, and the inspiration thus caught gave form and pressure to his after life.  Thus early imbued with the love of free institutions, educated by his father for the service of his country, and early led by Washington to its altar, he has stood before the world as one of its eminent statesmen.  He has occupied, in turn, almost every place of honor which the country could give him, and for more than half a century, has been thus identified with its history. * * * * *

“It is believed to have been the earnest wish of his heart to die, like Chatham, in the midst of his labors.  It was a sublime thought, that where he had toiled in the house of the nation, in hours of the day devoted to its service, the stroke of death should reach him, and there sever the ties of love and patriotism which bound him to earth.  He fell in his seat, attacked by paralysis, of which he had before been a subject.  To describe the scene which ensued would be impossible.  It was more than the spontaneous gush of feeling which all such events call forth, so much to the honor of our nature.  It was the expression of reverence for his moral worth, of admiration for his great intellectual endowments, and of veneration for his age and public services.