Delaware journal., 1828-02-08
From Tie Pennsylvania Gaseue.
A SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND SERVICES OF
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS,
President Of the United States.

| oOhs 0OlSOI hDAMo,
President Of The United Stases
10 refute calumny by plain Statement of facts,
and to show to the American people the just claims
OF the present Chief Magstrate 10 th II continued
confidence, the following account of inn has been
compiled. The relation OF occurrenres, in the early
part OF his lite, taken from blo5raI cll notice Of
MT. Adams which appeared in the 'ort Folio, in
the year 1919. The residue is Ter Of general
notorlety to the people OF Ameri.l to whom this
sketch rs respectfully sublnnleL.
Il JOHN Quincy ADAMS is dast aided from a race of
farmers, tradesmeu, and uec,lanics. ia $50, his
remote ancestor, Henry Adams, America,
with seven sons ana established hnset in this
Country. Thus early rooted in the soil at
tachnent to the and the rights of America has
been from generation to generaron, the blrth-right
OF this family
The first Of this name, who emerged from private
life, and rose to conspi ,uous public stations,
oamuel Adams the prescribed patriot OF tie tleyo.
ton, and John Adams, who prnooulc ID
his venerable co-patrot Thomas Jefferson go
Colossus ofIndependence - These two d>tins,,s..
ed beneiactors Of their country, were descenael !
OF the same remote ancestor. Samuel Adana i y
ceased without male issue John Qnncy t4,I,is5
the son of his ilIustrious fellow labour.r .aa ~
lative.
He was born in the year 1867, and wus sa4.aa
from John Quincy, his great gran,lfather, wau
bore distinguished part in the councils " th4
province, at the commencement OF the las, aeat0
ry.
| The principles of American Independents ana
freedom were lnstilled into the nlnu of Mr.. jasn
Quincy Adams, IN the very dawn of his eAstea,...
Both OF his reyered parents had entered, with ss.
ry power and faculty, into the of the coui
When the father OF Mr.. Adams r ,alr u Fra 4.
| as joint Commissioner with Franklin and Lee, he " $
accoapainedby his son John Q''ny, men IN NJ lt
year. In this country, he passed year and .ail
with his father, and enjoyed the enyiable priv sege
OF the daily lntercsurse and parental attentifis OF
Benjamin Franklin; whose kind notice OF the young
was peculiar trait in his character and whose
primitive simplicity of manners and methodlcal hab-
its left lasting impression the mind Of his youth
| full countrym
After IA residence of about eighteen months in
France, John Quincy Adams returned to America
with his father, who came home, to take part in the
formation of the Constitution of h native state.
After sojourn of few months at h. 'nr the voice
of the country called on Nj Adams's father again
to repair to Europe, Conn,ls-,o.- II for nego-
tiating treaty of peace and commeg wth great
: Britain whenever she might be dispe I'd to put an
end to the war.
e He took his son with him. They sailed in a
rench frgi,te bound to Brest, bn E vessel sprung
dangerous leak, Obliged to put into the near
est port, which proved to be Ffrrol, in Span
= From that place hir. Adams travelled by land te
i Paris, where he arrived January. 1880. an,
! where his son j. G. Adams WIS put TO school Ii
the month OF July, OF the s&ne yeai. hir Aistn
repaired TO Holland TO negotiate loan IN that coun
try. His son accompanied him, and was place1
first in the public school of the city Of Ansts rdam
and afterwards in the University OF Leyu.n. II
- July, 1851, Mi. Francis Dana, (sderwartis Che
~ Justice of the state OF Massachusc who had son
- out with Mr.. Adams Secretary OF Les ,ation, re
Y. ceived, from the Continental Congress. The com
mission of Minister'S to the Empress Of hissla, an
John Quincy Adams selected by Nj Dana, as
! private Secretary on this mission.
" After spending ioMteen months with I'. Dan;
VI he left him to return through Sweden, DENMARK
s's Hamburger, and Brennan, to Hoiand where his !;
ther had been publicly received minister from IN
\ U. S. and had concluded commercial treaty VII
the republic of the Netherlands. He perlorme
this journey during the winter of 1898, being 81
OF teen years OF age, without companion. he reac
DO, ed the Hague in April, 17a3, hts father being
that time engaged at Paris, in the negotiations
,od Poaeo From April to July his son remained at u
Hague under the of Mr.. Dumas, a native
Switzerland, a jealous friend of America, who h
,et filled the office of agent Of the United State
The negotiations for peace being suspended IN Jul
- Mr.. Atamss father repaired on business to Amste
dam, and on his return to Paris, Me took his son wi
um him. The deinltive treaty Of peace was signed
hl;c September 1888, from which time till May 178
the he chiefly with his father in England, Hollan
has and France
asts twas at this period that he formed an acqua
em tance with Mr.. Jefferson, then residing in France
ol American Minister. The intercourse of Mr.. Jefit
son with his former colleague, the father of MIR.
ans, was of an intimate and confidential kind, a
: led to friendship for his son, which formed in ea
. ly life, scarcely suffered interruption from su
Isequent political dissensions--and revived with o.
gnal strength during the last years of the life OF tt
of venerated statesman
i ofl Mr.. Adams was, at the period last mentione