The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-08-23
From The Boston Daily Times.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.

This gentleman is universally acknowledged to be
the possessor of splendid Abilities vast stores of in
formation acquired from books and intercourse with
men of eminenee in Europe and at home in short a
man so highly gifted, and conspicuous, that his
every action is noticed and commented Few public
characters have received much praise, and also SO
much blame, as Mr.. Adams,-if, recently the latter
has predomnated it is not from the caprice of pub
lie opinion, but In consequence Of the erratic
he has persued Within few years he has been as
variable as weather-cock, and political prophets,
renowned for their acumen, have been unable to pre-
dict his movements on any political question with
certainty. This has tended to keep him marked
man, and if he has latterly rendered himself more
notorious than famous, he has still been the observ-
ed of all Observers" Cynical commentators have
indeed limited that his singular positions have been
assumed his strange paradoxes put forth and defend
ed more from burning desire to keep up his noto-
rety, than from full belief in the measures he has
advocated-but we loath to subscribe to such
charges in their full extent
Not long ago, the members of the present Congress,
en- masse, rose against Mr.. Adams, and he was SOL
EMMY charged by them with design to destroy the
Government Now, those very men who were most
clamorous against him, rallyng round him. laud-
ing him to the very skies and holding him up for the
applause of admiring WI iggery as the "Sir Oracle'
par en,inence. When John Quincy Adams was ar
ragned aforesaid he argued urgently for the right
of selfdcfence, but now the President of the United
States must be condemned by this consistent gentle
man, without being allowed TO prefer even the APP
peal of ''strike, but hear me! !" And the new-made
wing friends of MIR. Adams insist that his arguments
are transferable, because they will not permit them
to be ans,cered. Oh most logical conclusion! Oh
most righteous judges.
We know not by what single term to characterize
the agent in the attempt at decapitatng the President
at the late grand Wing Caucus at Washington Mr.
Adams might be called the judge-a "Danel come
to Judgment" but he is more than this he is the
jury, (by the way, in of his recent vagaries, he
inveighcd most bitterly against ures and the execu
toner, of his own sentence. He reminds us of
Deaths doings in Hoods poem
al nimbly whipt my tackle out,
And soon tied up his claws
i ,cas Judge myself, and jury and all,
find soiemnly tried the cause"
new title must be coined wherewth to greet
the official who united so many functions.
The most repulsve part of Mr. Adams speech
against the President, is that wherein he dedes The
People. 1t amounts to an acknowledgment that he
and his associates are acting in opposition to the
known wishes of their constituency, that those con-
sttuents will repudatc them and their measures and
therefore they free from the necessity of Ieps
lating for the people. This acknowledgment of MIR
Adams will be remembered by the people should he
appeal 10 them he possibly may for their votes
in favor Of his election, whether as candidate for
the office of Governor Of Massachusetts, or as the Union
pithily suggests, To,on Clerk Of Braintree.