The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-12-31
From, the .4lerandria Phenir Gazette.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.

The fourth day of March next, john
QUINCY ADAMS leaves the chair of state,
and goes into peaceful retirement. To say
that we shall lament this occurrence will
but poorly express our feelings. In addi-
ton to the modification of knowing that he
is to be succeeded by person totally unfit
and incompetent to fill the Office, we have
the double one of losing the services of a
man whose private virtues, whose inestima-
BILE worth, and whose splendid talents render
him the pride and admiration of his country
Certainly Mr.. Adams himself feels no re-
greet at quitting the turmoils and dlspensions
of politics, for pursuits more congenial to
his character and disposition. The evening
of his days will be spent in the noble occu-
patton of preparing for posterIty the history
of his hoDored fathers life and times, and
perhaps of rescuing his own acts from the
calumnies of his enemies. His sun will set
clear and unclouded. No deeds of vio-
lence-no outrages upon humanty-no in
Engagements of the law mo high handed, ar
bitrary measures-no attacks upon personal
liberty, mark his career. Examine his con-
duct from the very first moment he entered
into public life, until this day, and it will be
found to exhibit most scrupulous regard
to the principles which should distinguish
the virtuous citizen of free republic.
A rare combination of those virtues and
talents, which adorn and dignity human ma
ture, is concentrated in Mr.. Adams. His
character is not uneven, irregular, and dis
| iointed-here a yirtue-and there vice.
here delormity which destroys the effect
of an excellence there. 1t is all complete,
consistent, and harmonious. In every station
which he has occupied-in every situation
in which he has been placed, he has drawn
forth admiration and esteem. AS private
citizen, he is olent-humane-at.en
tive and industrious. AS the Chief Magis-
trate of the Republic, he adds to these,
mildness of manners and temper, unaffected
| plainness-- assiduous attention to his duties,
and zeal in the performance of measures
committed to his care. Those who have,
through prejudice or misrepresentation, re-
ceived false Impressions rs to his character,
! as a man, are always willing to acknowl-
edge their error, when they have had an
opportunity Of personal observation. He
has escaped uncontaminated, after living
! for years ut the most luxurious and dissipat-
| cd courts of Europe. The pomp and glare
and folly there exhibited, have had no eff
! feet upon a mind constituted like MI.
/ Adams's. He does in reality show more
of the Roman in Rome's best days" than
any other man in this country. When we
reco!lect the purity of his iise-the lessons
of wisdom and morality he has given us in
his writings and, above all, that eloquent
letter to his son, in which he SO feelingly
exhorts him to read the oracles of God, we
hardly know brighter example of virtuous
sentiments and exalted talents. II is a mat
ter ofpride to his friends, that amidst all the
rancorous abuse and hostility of the late
I political contest--when the poisoned shafts
Of malice and envy were hurled on every
side, and no man was safe from the malevo-
lence of enemies-the moral character of
Mr.. Adams stood unimpcached. 1t was a
rock against which the waves of party vio-
| lence beat in vain. Whatever, also, his
enemies may say to the contrary, Mr..
Adams is, and always has been, repubR-
can, in its proper sense. He is one by cdu-
cation. The same father, whose memory
is now daily nsulted by the venal and the
vile, but at whose death NATION mourned,
and whose ascending spirit was accompani-
ed with tho grateful prayers c. ten millions
Of freemen, --instiled into his mind an ar
dent lore Of liberty, and an infcxihle at