Memoir of the Life of John Quincy AdamsThis book is a biography of John Quincy Adams, United States Senator, Congressman from Massachusetts, and the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. |
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... slaveholders by the flattering hope of ridding them of the free colored people at the public expense ; lastly , some cunning slaveholders , who see that the plan may be carried far enough to produce the effect of raising the market ...
... slaveholders by the flattering hope of ridding them of the free colored people at the public expense ; lastly , some cunning slaveholders , who see that the plan may be carried far enough to produce the effect of raising the market ...
Page 98
... slaveholders are much more ably represented than the simple freemen . With the exception of Rufus King , there is not , in either house of Congress , a member from the free states able to cope in powers of the mind with William Pinckney ...
... slaveholders are much more ably represented than the simple freemen . With the exception of Rufus King , there is not , in either house of Congress , a member from the free states able to cope in powers of the mind with William Pinckney ...
Page 102
... slaveholders . He laid down the position of the natural liberty of man , and its incompatibility with slavery in any shape ; he also questioned the constitutional right of the President and Senate to make the Louisiana treaty ; but he ...
... slaveholders . He laid down the position of the natural liberty of man , and its incompatibility with slavery in any shape ; he also questioned the constitutional right of the President and Senate to make the Louisiana treaty ; but he ...
Page 103
... slaveholders cannot hear of them without being seized with the cramps . They call them seditious and inflammatory , which was far from being their character . Never , since human sentiment and human conduct were influenced by human ...
... slaveholders cannot hear of them without being seized with the cramps . They call them seditious and inflammatory , which was far from being their character . Never , since human sentiment and human conduct were influenced by human ...
Page 110
... slaveholders , that his motives on this occasion have been merely personal aggrandizement , close ambition varnished o'er with zeal . ' The imputation of bad motives is one of the most convenient weapons of political , and indeed of ...
... slaveholders , that his motives on this occasion have been merely personal aggrandizement , close ambition varnished o'er with zeal . ' The imputation of bad motives is one of the most convenient weapons of political , and indeed of ...
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Page 392 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page 392 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, And herb for the service of man : That he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Page 392 - Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
Page 29 - Until Congress shall provide for the government of such islands all the civil, judicial and military powers exercised by the officers of the existing government in said islands shall be vested in such person or persons and shall be exercised in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct; and the President shall have power to remove said officers and fill the vacancies so occasioned.
Page 272 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Page 2 - The fact, recorded by my father at the time, has connected with that portion of my name, a charm of mingled sensibility and devotion. It was filial tenderness that gave the name. It was the name of one passing from earth to immortality. These have been among the strongest links of my attachment to the name of Quincy, and have been to me, through life, a perpetual admonition to do nothing unworthy of it.
Page 103 - Adams that he did not think the slave question, then pending in the nation's councils, would produce a dissolution of the Union; but if it should, the South would, from necessity, be compelled to form an alliance, offensive and defensive, with Great Britain. Mr. Adams asked if that would not be returning to the old colonial state. Calhoun said, " Yes, pretty much ; but it would be forced upon them.
Page 299 - and we may possibly discover some way by which we can get along, without the aid of his all-powerful talent, learning and genius. If we cannot organize in any other way — if this Clerk of yours will not consent to our discharging the trusts confided to us by our constituents, then let us imitate the example of the Virginia House of Burgesses, which, when the colonial Governor Dinwiddie ordered it to disperse, refused to obey the imperious and insulting mandate, and, like men...
Page 392 - Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging : and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Page 142 - Adams proceeded to form his cabinet by nominating Henry Clay, of Kentucky, Secretary of State; Richard Rush, of Pennsylvania, Secretary of the Treasury; James Barbour, of Virginia, Secretary of War; Samuel L. Southard, Secretary of the Navy, and Wm.