Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-11-30
RICHMOND. TUESDAY, NOV. 80. 1871.
Monsieur Tonson- 0gain

The Quincy Patriot contradicts, on Inc authofiy 81
! MIR. John Quincy Adams, the report mat he hd an
| nounced bis intention 10 decline beng again n canG'.
date for election as q Representative IN Congress, and
saws that he will s.be ready 10 serve his constituents ss
their Representative in Congress, so long as they may
require his services, and his health permits nun 10 ds.
charge the duties Of the office
This unique politician is destined 10 throw an Aho.
Iition ~bombshell intn the next House OF Representa-.
,iyes. Indeed, of what act Of indiscretron ~ ne not
Gamble i: He even justifies the British Government
in their outrageous attacks upon the Chinese. The
New York Sun truly asks:
uWuAT yExT?-We learn from the Boston Post that
a lecture was delivered on Monday evening in that city
by that enigma of a man, John Q. Adams, upon the
subject of the Chinese war. The audience had assem-
bled with the expectation of hearing a keen satire upon
The course Of England, when, to their utter oston,sh.
uent, the old gentleman took The British side Of The
question, openly justified the mos, inexcusable war ever
waged, and intimated that the Us ought 10 aid Great
Britain in butchering the Chinese and bringing them 10
terms. The Post thinks il quite likely that he will ad.
vocate similar views in Congress, We should not Won.
der. Indeed, nothing that he might advocate would
surprise US, provided il disagreed with The views OF
every man of common sense IN the county,
Mr.. A. denied the Chinese sthe right 10 exclude other
nations from the reciprocal rights Of trade, 10 establish
n huniiliating monopoly through then hong merchants,
and 10 demand from all foreign ambassadors the deg'ad-
inc ceremony Of the hon. ton, VIZ: knocking the lore
head nine times on the ground in approaching the I'm.
peror. This kou. ton, he coniended, vas the cause Of
the war, and not, as many people ihisely supposed,
The opium question. Tha, he regarded as a mere lnci.
dent IN The drann. The destruction Of a few chests Of
opium, lie said, was no more the cause OF The war with
Chlna than the throwing overheard a few chests Of tea
was The cause ofthe war of the American revolution,
and lie seemed 10 imply that one war was quite as 'ig'l.
eous as the other!
"rhe main argument, (says the Boston POST Mr.
Adams, in j~ustiying The Chinese war, would It seems
10 us, Justify the ground originally assumed by the
shareholders, ,hatit was really philanlhropic TO s'ea!
and sell the miserable Africans, in order to Christian.
ne and civilize them. The Chinese, according TO Mr..
Adams, ought TO be served in the same way, and BON.
borded and butchcred, until they consent 10 receive an
ambassador without knocking his forehead nine times
on the ground! BY The same token, 'fa naughty and
SILLY man in n neighborhood should close hs doors
against all social intercourse, Mr.. Adams would have
his ~neigh5ors burst them open, and compn h"n 10 m
yi;e them to his house at the point OF The bay"net.
After such an act Of folly and injustice on Tho part
Of Mr.. Adams, who can be aslonish-d at any hnliuci.
nation which he may display during The next session
of Congress-