John Quincy Adams (54 page)

In multinational treaties, names of signatory countries usually appear alphabetically.

Four years later, the czar found in favor of the United States and ordered two commissions to determine the number of slaves and value of each due to the United States. In 1826, Britain agreed to pay the United States a total of $1,204,960 in full compensation for all the slaves.

The United States would recognize Chile and Argentina in January 1823, Brazil in May 1824, the United Provinces of Central America (now Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua) in August 1824, and Peru in May 1826.

Private charities emerged in most of the North to feed them. There is little documentation of their fate in the South.

This French term dates back to King Louis XIV, who invited a select few to witness his rising and dressing each morning in the royal chamber—a ceremony called
la levée du roi
, or “rising of the king.”

His remains washed ashore a month after his death, and his father buried him in the family vault in Quincy.

Edward Everett graduated from Harvard at the top of his class in 1811 and went on to become a Massachusetts congressman and governor, secretary of state, and senator. One of the nation's great orators, he gave the two-hour-long address at the dedication of the Gettysburg cemetery, only to be upstaged by Abraham Lincoln's short address. “I should be glad,” he wrote to President Lincoln the next day, “if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes” (from
Webster's American Biographies
).

“O, Richard, my king, the world abandons thee.”

Dermot MacMorrogh, or the Conquest of Ireland: An Historical Tale of the Twelfth Century
, in Four Cantos (Boston: Carter Hendee, 1832; 1832; Columbus, OH: I. N. Whiting, 1834).

Three of the sons joined the military not long after their father's death; two of them died of typhoid fever, and the third was lost at sea. Still, John Quincy supported Thomas's wife, Nancy, until her death in 1845.