Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1827-05-18
aS 9C1eeeqpeIW &lxa 1a0M,
FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 18. l827.

Broken Doscs.-We have read many p2negyric. on
John Quincy Adams but the below exceeds them
all in excessive compliment, and warmth and sim
ceritJ OF manner which to declare that it sprung
from the very bottom of tue writer's heart. lie is
speaking OF Mr.. Adams celebrated de fence of Gen.
Jackson's conduct in Fiorda-conduct strongly dis
approved by him; but in spite Of his disapprobation
the pernsal of that mastery State Paper seems TO have
thrown him into perfect ecstasy. cit is written
says he with astonishing force of ingenuity and the
most captivating eoquence.'' cit is monument OF
Diplomatic Genius.n sIr rs AN ORNAMENT TO MY
COUNTRY" 81 feel proud of belonging TO nation
which has produced such a D1AzE of talentsn
Has The reader seen so fulsome and extraya
giant strain of compliment Can he peruse these
high flown and sounding praises upon men in power
without feeling that they become plain Republi-
cans, however they might suit the atmosphere of Kings
and Courts" But above ALL that they should have
been addressed TO John Quincy Adams Is it possible
That nc whose late Messages are said to abound with
false rhetoric and meretrcious ornament whose bad
taste led him to use wretcled metaphor as slobt
houses in the skies, could have written in 1915 sswj
such an astonishing force Of ingenuity and the most
captivating eloqrence of all descriptions
Again the writer of tie article below, calls , State
Paper OF Mr.. Adams, ga monument Of Diplomatic
Geninsm--WhaG Mr.. Adams monument of Di
plomatc Genius! He whose ''bunglng diplomacy
in the opinion of the Enquirer has lost the British
Colonial trade to the United S!ates-NIr. Adams who
is called ironically, by the paper 'sDiplomac
President" and mere professor Of Rhetoric-is il
possible that any body should have the inpudence to
call MIR, Adams "monument of Diplomatic Genius?
Again says the writer of The article, Mr. Adams
defence of Jackson sis an ornament TO nv country.
feel proud of belonging TO a nation which has pro.
duced such BLAZE OF talenls."-IIad Mr. Russell of
ton gentlemen, said they proud of belonging TO
the nation that had produced 'such blaze of talen,s
that had produced John Quincy Adams-wo should
not SO greatly have admired at their enthusiasm But
The reader will Snare in surprze, when he learns
that the person who used this language is Virginia
Democrat--t!'c chief patentee of democracy-one at
whose divine touch the federal Ieper is Immediately
healed, and at whose frown, the unsulied and unsus
Pected Republican sinks a lost man into the slough
of federalism. The reader cannot but be surprized
that such character as this should congratulate
himself at having been born in the same nation with
John Quincy Adams--thot he should over and over
felctate himself that be fellow citizen Of the
man who advised Congress ''Dot to be pased by the
wiz OF their coDsituents--au apostate from federal.
ism, who n tie opinion Of the Enquirer, deserted his
party TO himsef-a man who according TO the
oracle, is 10 secret welded 10 nonarchca princi
pes and is covcry seeking TO introduce them into the
y. Sates-who cotrupl} bargaIDed for tie Pei
dency, and whose ''ruInous dpIomacy,n and "weak
and wretched adminslrationn are preparing for him
the same catastrophe which befe his father. We say
si not remarkable, that so pure and orthodox de-
mocrat we have described the auhor of the article
below TO be, should consider it so enyiable fate tc
have been born IN TIE same state with the aposate
corrupt, weak, wrctchod, dishonest and monarcbca
John Quincy Adams-be whose talents and acquire
mcDts according to the Enquirer, ct him only for
chair Of Rhetoric in Harvard?
The reader must by this time, have his curiosit,
highly awakened 10 know who the author of this fash,
panegyrIc upon Mr.. Adams is. live were not certain
that he could never find il ont himself, would lcav
him to guess; but being assured Of this, and knowing
that curiosity highly excited becomes positively pain
ful, we must take mercy and tell him. Well then
| it is THOMAS RITcHIE, Esq. cole Editor of the Eo
quirer, January the second, 1910! II Tire reader