[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.)