The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 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 emnence in Europe and at home in Short a
man so highly gifted, and so conspicuous, that his
every action is noticed and commented. Few public
characters have received much praise, and also
much blame, as Mr. Adams,-if, recently, the latter
has predominated 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
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
cIamorous against him, rallying round him, laud-
ing him to the very skies, and holding him up for the
| applause of admiring WI iggery as the "Sr Oracle
par eninence. When John Quincy Adams was ar
ragned as aforesaid he argued urgently for the right
of selfdefence but now the President of the United
States must be condemned by this consistent gentle
man. without being allowed to proffer even the APP
| peal of s'strike, but hear me-! And the new-made
wing friends of Mr. Adams insist that his arguments
are ,,,a,s,oerable because they will not permit them
| to be ans,oered Oh most logical conclusion! Oh
most righteous judges.
| We know not by what single term to characterize
the agent in the attempt at decaptatng 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 one of his recent vagaries, he
nveghed most bitterly against ures) and the execu-
| toner, of his own sentence He reminds us OF
Deaths doings, in Hoods poem
| 81 nimbIy whpt my tackle out,
And soon tied up his claws,
,cas Judge myself, and jury and aH
| find soennnly tried the cause"
| new title must be coined wherewith to greet
| the official who united so many functions.
| The most repulsive part of Mr.. Adams speech
against the President, is that wherein he defes the
| People 1t amounts to acknowledgment that he
and his associates acting in opposition to the
known wishes of their constituency that those con-
.tiuents will repudiate them and their measures, and
therefore they are free from the necessity of egs-
Iating for the people, This acknowledgment of Mr..
| Adams will be remembered by the people should he
erer appeal 10 en 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,cn Clerk Of Brainfree