Sketch of the Life of John Quincy Adams; Taken from the Port Folio of April, 1819: To which are Added, the Letters of Tell: Originally Addressed to the Editor of the Baltimore American. Respectfully Submitted to the Serious Consideration of Those Freeholders of Virginia, who Desire to Esxercise the High Privilege of Voting for a President of the United States at the Approaching Election1824 - Campaign literature - 52 pages |
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Page 8 - Adams's father, then president of the United States, and in a manner highly honorable to the restraint of his parental feelings, in the discharge of an act of public duty. Although Mr. Adams's appointment...
Page 9 - Boston, and then was elected Senator of the United States for six years, from the 4th of March, 1804.
Page 38 - In their rage against each other, or impelled by more direct motives, principles of retaliation have been introduced, equally contrary to universal reason and acknowledged law. How long their arbitrary edicts will be continued, in spite of the demonstrations that not even a pretext for them has been given by the United States, and of the fair and liberal attempt to induce a revocation of them, cannot be anticipated.
Page 5 - Congress as joint commissioner to the Court of Versailles. While in France he was put to school and instructed in the language of the country, as well as in Latin. After about eighteen months they returned to America in the French frigate La Sensible, in company with the Chevalier de la Luzerne, who came out as Minister of France to the United States. They arrived in Boston on the 1st of August, 1779. In November of the same year, his father was again despatched to Europe in a diplomatic character....
Page 38 - ... devotion, as well as filled me with an awful sense of the trust to be assumed. Under the various circumstances which...
Page 26 - Federalists.1 It must always be conceded that the Embargo was only a choice of evils. It was a hard and painful alternative, but for a time was probably the best one. As one of its most eloquent defenders, John Quincy Adams, remarked, " the orders in council, if submitted to, would have degraded us to the condition of colonies — if resisted, would have fattened the wolves of plunder with our spoils. . The Embargo was the only shelter from the tempest — the last refuge of our violated peace.
Page 7 - Adams employed the leisure afforded him by this circumstance, and by his industrious habits, in speculations upon the great political questions of the day. In April, 1793, on the first information that war between Great Britain and France had been declared, Mr. Adams published a short series of papers, the object of which was, to prove that the duty and interest of the United States required them to remain neutral in the contest. These papers were published before General Washington's proclamation...
Page 7 - He remained in that situation four years, extending his acquaintance with the great principles of law, and also taking part in the public questions which then occupied the attention of his countrymen. In the summer of 1791 he published a series of papers in the " Boston Centinel," under the signature of Publicola, containing remarks upon the first part of Paine's
Page 6 - ... then filled the office of an agent of the United States. The negotiations for peace being suspended in July, Mr. Adams's father repaired on business to Amsterdam ; and on his return to Paris he took his son with him. The definitive treaty of peace was signed in September, 1783, from which time till May, 1785, he was chiefly with his father in England, Holland, and France. It was at this period that he formed an acquaintance with Mr. Jefferson, then residing in France as American minister. The...
Page 26 - It is not through the medium of personal sensibility, nor of party bias, nor of professional occupation, nor of geographical position, that the whole truth can be discerned, of questions involving the rights and interests of this extensive Union.
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| Title | Sketch of the Life of John Quincy Adams; Taken from the Port Folio of April, 1819: To which are Added, the Letters of Tell: Originally Addressed to the Editor of the Baltimore American. Respectfully Submitted to the Serious Consideration of Those Freeholders of Virginia, who Desire to Esxercise ... |
| Contributor | Tell (pseud.) |
| Published | 1824 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Mar 14, 2006 |
| Length | 52 pages |
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