| Show john quincy adams it any persons persona should be ba vallea to namo the ilia moat prosale and ing character in american history forty nino BIBO would probably select john quincy adams webster clay cal bean general jackson Jook ton lis his baries one and all were were loaders of men bud bad indent ardent follow ore era and vehement a enemies fudem adams bs had an aloun lanco and savage once but friends rod nod followers ho he had none many goDer one however praed away before there came people who 1 nee ana that tile the C cavalier calier had bail not usurped all the pla nos of his age but bat th thit it the grim A aad 4 sell am toro IBIO nor for olathe a alao I 1 a hall had thur u tica floe will bo be done dona tj mr adams he will never become attractive but bat posterity will not hate hata him as his hin own 1 xen an trillion did while ahila inn bid rigid ducom promising ising adhere floo to d duty aly his cour independence nail and constancy cout tanoy bill hi puro pare hn rare foil I 1 integrity 11 teg rity ats hia industry indu and grent great acquire beuto laiu it 0 abar clear common sense benso aud keen I 1 logio a I 1 will la in time be centrally gem gen rally trally appreciated na its they were on rare tic on only during his bid lifetime it is ia it goodly list of 0 qualities for or is a statesman and every one ot of thoin them was highly developed iu in mr adams it I 1 lie ho had hal addad one grain of warm human sym byu pathy how different might have been his career in in life his hia memory la in death I 1 out butof of this lo he had hadnott not n particle etwas it was hill hia melancholy melino holy tato fato to go through life lie always doing bloing right in in a way so BO repellant na its to drive all waver ers to the side of wrong bud and making political virtue so BO that his folios politicians were too frequently nothing loath to allow him to BO 80 a goddess in his bis famous diary almost common bursts with his lifetime lita timo nail and filling twelve large octaves in print he is thoroughly exposed in his hii virtues and ana his defects defect ii hil hii greatness buas a bud and hu his little ness does all adams was the tapi ty pi oar oaf outcome of 0 Parit puritanism aniam in its now Bog latia development apparently he ha never bowed sowed ito BO much as aa a single wild oat iu in all his bis exemplary exam plary donth although ho he vill iteI au all those european Uuro peAU capitals oa IQ ia which vast aud and alluring girdens gardens are devoted to tile tho production of 0 those these naughty cereals but bat in b boyhood u you ili anti and manhood his emi eminently nen tal Y traits roma remained inea still the lame an reverence for or the right ih ft pera latent effort to do it resulting in a respectable measure raea aura ot of ii and an at least proportionate proportion ato consciousness ot of that success a groat great regard for intellectual cultivation and tho the acquisition of knowledge a trong strong and ever present religious belief nail and a decided dis distaste for or lilt tua ana decorations ol of he was thoroughly thoro ugly layout devout and his diary is thickly be strown with wilu espres alone of religious religion feeling in ili no oo cc entrance of lifo life did lie ha fil fail to utter the appropriate sentiment ahot whether her iu in the way of 0 praise ilae thankfulness humility or prayer tyer nor he ha appear ever to havo doubted doub teil that he be at least felt all the willett religion maile made becoming not that ho he ym pharisaical for tio he as not ike he was profoundly nuil and sincerely religious but the ver very a appreciation P r buy c which ho he put upon his honest religious sentiments inevitably lod led to a beasa of satisfaction eath faction with avith himself for jiming h king felt them ilium indeed Im leoil he bo would tk ddn mii havo been humbolt hall had banot bonot he liot been satia lied with himself himo elf for he ha never bieve wm wai without a present nome of the purity partly of 0 ills his motives and the nobleness nob lonesa of his alms aims such were really the facts facia history for y will say so BO but cannot surprise him hi in by bythe the statement iia was to bo be a good man luan ho be WB was it a cooil man he bo know it bud found pleasure in in the one ona christian virtue however bo be lacked lie he led hail no 0 charity hari I 1 y for the shortcomings of 0 others vh which I 1 ch I 1 lie a contemplated conin tem plated even through in magnifying gla glasses oses rather with satis fa action the than with pain at khoona thoona tho end of the twelfth volume lume ono one Is astonished to have haro tray trav oread ila eo long it period parlo I 1 of Amet american ican his hia tory encountered so ninny many honored names still and to reflect how count it 11 ineas uro ore 0 of praise how meagre a credit for or motives have boen been die dia tributes tri bUted into in no long it journey acer A car tain vaglio and indefinite but very perceptible cep tible atmosphere of depreciation pervades tilea tho whole diary hero worship was na as alien to mr adams nature as fotion worship no flame of sym hatlay over unduly warmed his cold jud judgment guiont no generous admiration ever eror led him a stop after an aa erring loader leader only when bin bid own motives were tra tr dumouil or hill bis own ona actions were at tacked dil if bo be show the latent heat within hi bli then indeed he blazed bl d forth file C oly and I 1 lie le vw i A t a groat orator but bat ho he had a ablo power of sarcasm Barc asiu a keen boen unerring logio logic no ile feared no man no bj body y ol of men lie ha was of 0 a truly won as al courage moral mental find and cal OR lie he could coald absolutely alono alone in ia tco I 1 a ot of vast odds with oa as tranquil a fearlessness as could lava have boon been felt by the most distant and obscure camp followers follo wora in the opposing forces all ho he wished was to feel assured wh what at was IM right light and from the moment when he had determined this neither na nor favor nor thought for or his hia own interests could more him one haird breadth international baziow |
