The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1837-12-05

JOHN QUINCY ADAMs.-The October number
of the "Democrutic Review" published at Wash
ington, conluins very interesting Chances
at Congress- in which several ofthe prominent
members are described in a graphic and some
what impartial manner. The, following sketch
of that extraordinary man, john QUINcY ADAMS,
will be read with much Interest,"
"Our attention is now attracted to a ray of light
that glitters on the apex of bald and noble head,
"located the left of the House, in the neighbor
hood of the Speakers Chair. 1t proceeds from
thatswonderiu IMAM who in his person combines
the agitator, poet, philosopher, statesman critic,
and orator-JouN Quincy ADAMS. There he
sits hour after hour, day after day. with untiring
patience, never absent from his seat,never voting
for an adjournment, vgant as the most jealous
member of the House, his ear ever OH the alert,
always prepared to go at once into the mos, pro-
found questions of state, the ninutest points Of
order. We look at him and mark his cold and
fearful eye his stern and distracted gaze, and
! conlure up phantoms of other scenes We look
upon n more than King who has filed every
department of honor in his native land, still at his
post he who was the President of millions now
the representative of forty odd thousands, quar-
relling about rifles or advocating high principles:
I-tO-day growing and snecring ut the House
with an abolition petition in his trembling hand,
ana anon lordinS it the passions, and lashing
the members into the widest state OF enthusiasm
by his indignant emphatic eloquence. Alone,
unspoiep TO, unconsuted, never consulting with
others, he sits apart wrapped, in his rcverics, or
probably he is writing, his almost perpetual enl-
ployment. He looks enieebled, but yet he is
never tired; worn ont, but ready for combat;
melancholy, but let n witty thing fall from any
member, and that old mans face is wreathed in
smiles. He appears passive, but woe to the un4
fortunate member that hazards an arrow at him
the eagle is not swfter in it's flight than Mr.
Adams; with his fingers qnivering in sarcastic
gesticulation, he seizes upon his foe, and, amid
the amusement of the House rarely fails to take
every suhect, garncrediup in the course of his ex-
traorlnaryiie, in the well arranged store house Of
n memory which is said Fever to have PERMITTED
single fact to escape it, give him great advant7
age over all others in encounters Of this kind. He
is-a wonderful, eccentric genius. He belongs to
no party, nor does any party belong to him. He
is OF too cold nature to he long party leader.
He is original OF very peculiar ideas, and perfect
ly fearless and independent in expressing and
maintaining Them His manner of speaking is
PECULIAR he rises abruptly, his face reddens,
and in moment. throwing himself into the atti-
tude of Il veteran gladiator, he prepares for the
attack; then he becomes full of gesculation,
his body sways to and fro, self command seems
lost, his head is bent forward i'm his carnestness
till it sometimes touches the desk his voice fire.
quenty breaks, but he pursues his subject through
all its Notwithstanding daunts him--the House
may ring with cries of er-order!-unmoved
-contcmptuous-hc stands amid the tempest,
and like an oak that knows its gnarcd and knot
ted strength, stretches his arm forth and ,le6es
the blast" ,,, -