Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-11-25

JOHN QUIcY ADAMs.-The October
Number Of the Democratic Review,
published at Washington contains, the
following sketch of ihls extraordinary
man. John Quincy Aadms.
'Our attention is now attracted to a
ray of light located on the.leit of the
House, in the neighborhood of the Spea,
ker,s Chair. 1t proceeds from the won
derful man who in person combines the
agitator, poet, philosopher, statesman,
critic and orator,-John Quincy Adams.
There he sits; hour after hour, day after
day, with untiring patience, never ab-
sent from his seat, never voting for an
adjournment, vigilanl as the most Jealous
member of the House, his ear ever on
the alert, always prepared at once to go
INTO the profoundest question of state,
or the mlnutest points of order.-We
look at him and mark his cold and tear
tul eye, his stern and distracted gaze,
and conjure up phantoms of other
scenes. We look upon him more than
klng. who has filled every department
OF honor in his native land, still at his
post; he who was the President ofmiIl.
ions, now the representative of forty odd
thousand, quarelling about trihes or ad-
vocating high principle ito day growl
ing and sneeriDg at the House with an
abolition petition in his trembling hand,
and anon lording it over the passions,
and lashing the members into the wild.
es, state of enthusiasm by his indignant
and emphatic eloquence. Aloue, unspo-
ken to, unconsulted with others, he sits
apart, wrapped in his reveries, or proba.
bly he his writing, his almost perpetual
employment. He looks enfeebled, but vet
le is never tired; worn out, but ever
'eady for the combat; melancholy, but
ct a witty thing fall from any member,
md the old mans face is wreathed in
miles. He appears passive, but wo TO
ne unfortunate member that hazards an
rrow at him-the eagle is not swifter
a its flight than Mr.. Adams; with his
gitated finger qivering in sarcastic
esiiculation, he seizes upon his foe, and, {
mid the amazement ofthe House, rare i
fails to take a signal vengeance. His S
lores Of knowledge upon every subject,
arnered up through the course Of his ex. G
'aordinary life, in the well arranged 7
ore house Of memory which is said to !,
ever have permitted single fact to es- t
ape it, give him great advantage over Z
| corners in encounters of his kind. {
e isa wonderful, eccentric genius. He /
'longs to no party, and no party be. u
ngs to him. He is 10 cold a nature to e
party Ieader.-He is originally of b
'ry peculiar ideas, and perfectly fear Il
IS and independent IN expressing and a
them. His manner of speak "
g is peculiar, he rises abruptly, his I
cesreddens, and, in moment throwing
mself into the attitude Of veteran gla.
iator, he prepares for an attack; then ia
becomes full of gesticuIation, his IN
dy sways to and fro, self command ~
ems loose, his head is bent forward re
his earnestness till il sometime touches ke
; desk, his voice frequently breaks, !,
d he pursues his subject through all its Pl'
arings-nothing daunts him-the House
y ring with cries of order l--order In
lnmoved-contemptuous-- stands
id the tempest, and like an oak that as
ows his knotted and gnarled strength,
etches his arm forth and defes The WI
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