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Sep 03, 2024
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JQA on his use of his middle 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."
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Young boy genius John Quincy Adams joined his father John for diplomatic negotiations abroad, to work as his secretary. He was present when independence was recognized by Britain. This is a letter he wrote back to his mother, at age 11:
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Early Federalists & later Federalists were very different. JQA was not beholden to the late Federalists.
“Fortunately the able men had… accomplished their allotted tasks so thoroughly that all subsequent generations of Americans have been reaping the benefit of their labors.”
“Fortunately the able men had… accomplished their allotted tasks so thoroughly that all subsequent generations of Americans have been reaping the benefit of their labors.”
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JQA was successful as an American minister in Russia, & cemented friendly relations. Russia offered to broker a peace arrangement between America and Britain over the war of 1812. JQA was disgusted with a certain class of Americans that embedded themselves with European nobility.
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In Ghent, negotiating an agreement with Britain to end the war of 1812. These are the British demands. John Quincy wanted to hit back on the offensive in response.
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The question of admitting Missouri into the Union originally was not a question he gave much thought. But when JQA studied the issue he determined it to be a “title page to a great tragic volume” and predicted the attempt to dissolve the Union.
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John C. Calhoun tells John Quincy Adams that if the Union were to be dissolved “the south would be from necessity compelled to form an alliance offensive and defensive with Great Britain.”
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The Monroe Doctrine is from the mind of Adams. JQA on how America should be seen by foreign nations:
“If the world do not hold us for Romans, they will take us for Jews, and of the two vices I would rather be charged with that which has greatness mingled in its composition."
“If the world do not hold us for Romans, they will take us for Jews, and of the two vices I would rather be charged with that which has greatness mingled in its composition."
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Ironically enough, when Andrew Jackson first started to make waves with the controversial Florida raid, his only powerful friend was Adams. JQA stood opposed to the unanimous opinions of the President, Calhoun, Crawford and Wirt.
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JQA wins, & wears a black suit made 100% from American manufacturers at his inauguration. Meanwhile Jackson men, knowing he will run again, use their newspaper organs to revive & constantly repeat the “corrupt bargain” lie, driving Clay to the point of dueling with John Randolph
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Jackson, the candidate of the populace & the representative hero of the ignorant masses, instituted a new system of administering the Government in which personal interests became the most important element… which have since become known… under the name of the political machine
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Adams returned to public service in the House of Representatives, & was made the chairman of the Committee on Manufacturers. He was largely disgusted with how Jackson handled the nullification crisis.
"Four fifths of his sickness is trickery, and the other fifth mere fatigue."
"Four fifths of his sickness is trickery, and the other fifth mere fatigue."
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Southerners in congress invent the “gag rule” to stop John Quincy Adams from bantering them on the question of permitting enslaved blacks to be settled in the territories of the United States
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John Quincy Adams’ last fight to overturn the gag rule was successful. Months later he fell ill during congress.
"This is the last of earth! I am content!"
"This is the last of earth! I am content!"
