FOOTNOTES:
[12] See Social Compact, etc. Providence, 1848, p. 31, et al.
[13] See Address at Washington, 4th of July, 1821. Second Edition, Cambridge, passim.
[14] Reference is made to his speech in the House of Representatives, May 8th and 9th, 1840. (Boston, 1840.) It is a little remarkable, that the false principle of the common law, on which Mr. Adams was commenting, as laid down by Blackstone, is corrected by a writer, M. Pothier, who rests on the civil law for his authority. See pp. 6-8, and 20, 21.
[15] Answer to Paine's Rights of Man (London, 1793), originally published in the Columbian Centinel. The London Edition bears the name of John Adams on the title-page.
[16] Mr. Atherton.
[17] See Oration at Quincy, 1831, p. 12, et seq. (Boston, 1831.)
[18] The Social Compact, etc., etc. (Providence, 1842). p. 24.
[19] See Pickering's Letter to Governor Sullivan, on the Embargo. Boston, 1808. John Quincy Adams's Letter to the Hon. H. G. Otis, etc. Boston, 1808. Pickering's Interesting Correspondence, 1808. Review of the Correspondence between the Hon. John Adams and the late William Cunningham, etc. 1824. But see, also, Mr. Adams's "Appendix" to the above letter, published sixteen years after the vote on the embargo. Baltimore, 1824. Mr. Pickering's Brief Remarks on the Appendix. August, 1824.
[20] Reference is here made to British "Orders in Council" of Nov. 22d, 1807. They were not officially made known to the American Congress till Feb. 7th, 1808. They were, however, published in the National Intelligencer, the morning on which the Message was sent to the Senate, Dec. 18th, 1807, but were not mentioned in that document, nor in the debate.
[21] I copy this from the first letter of Mr. Pickering. Mr. Adams wrote a letter (to H. G. Otis) in reply to this of Mr. Pickering, but said nothing respecting the words charged upon him; but in 1824, in an appendix to that letter, he denies that he expressed the "sentiment" which Mr. Pickering charged him with. But he does not deny the words themselves. They rest on the authority of Mr. Pickering, his colleague in the Senate, a strong party man, it is true, perhaps not much disposed to conciliation, but a man of most unquestionable veracity. The "sentiment" speaks for itself.
[22] Adams's Remarks in the House of Representatives, Jan. 5, 1846.
[23] Correspondence between the Hon. John Adams and the late William Cunningham, Esq. Boston, 1823, Letter xliii. p. 150.
[24] March 15th, 1826.
[25] See Mr. Adams's Message, Dec. 2, 1828. The exact sum was $1,197,422.18.
[26] See Mr. Clay's Letter to Mr. A. H. Everett, April 27th, 1825; to Mr. Middleton, respecting the intervention of the Emperor of Russia, May 10th, and Dec. 26th, 1825; to Mr. Gallatin, May 10th, and June 19th, 1826, and Feb. 24th, 1827. Executive Documents, Second Session of the 20th Congress, Vol. I.
[27] Report of Mr. Adams's Lecture on the Chinese War, in the Boston Atlas, for Dec. 4th and 5th, 1841.
[28] Genesis i. 26-28.
[29] Psalms ii. 6-8.
[30] See Mr. Adams's Speech on Oregon, Feb. 9th, 1846. Arguments somewhat akin to this, may be found also in the oration delivered at Newburyport, before cited.
[31] Address on breaking ground for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
[32] Jubilee of the Constitution, p. 99.
[33] Lecture on China.
[34] See his defence of this in his Address to his Constituents at Braintree, Sept. 17th, 1842. Boston, 1842, p. 56, et seq.
[35] In a public address, Mr. Adams once quoted the well-known words of Tacitus (Annal VI. 39), Par negotiis neque supra,—applying them to a distinguished man lately deceased. A lady wrote to inquire whence they came. Mr. Adams informed her, and added, they could not be adequately translated in less than seven words in English. The lady replied that they might be well translated in five—Equal to, not above, duty, but better in three—John Quincy Adams.
[36] Remarks of Mr. Cambreleng.
[37] Mr. Van Buren.
[38] See the Debates of the House, January 23d and following, 1837; or Mr. Adams's own account of the matter in his Letters to his Constituents, etc. (Boston, 1837.) See, too, his Series of Speeches on the Right of Petition and the Annexation of Texas, January 14th and following, 1838. (Printed in a pamphlet. Washington, 1838.)
"Acer et indomitus, quo spes, quoque ira vocasset,
Ferre manum, et nunquam temerando parcere ferro;
Successus urgere suos; instare favori
Numinis; impellens quiequid sibi summa petenti
Obstaret, gaudensque viam fecisse ruina."
[40] Clarum et venerabile nomen.
[41] The above lines are from the pen of the Rev. John Pierpont.