The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1843-09-28

ksssss. and i0ak loha Qsiaey Adams,
'hsn Isssteen years 81 age. wisi. h.m =
20 piissis Secstary. Here IL yo.nR~s
Afans renamed upt,l Osiahsr. l7s2.
shea he lsf III. Dane .. 81. Pepr.bsrs.
snd returned shn.ugh Saeslrn. Denmssk,
llameufg and Btemen. 10 H0ilaad. Up-
% his lonraey be emplaysd she sh..le
winter. Spending considerable tine IL sl.s
wsy. N St,skhsln. Copenhagen. aud
Hamburg. tie reached lie II sue il
April. l7s3. and convinced several months
- Holl ID. oa,,l lis fs,hsr Ia. L him bark
% Psris. where be VAS 81 he sigaiae of
Tie iFssiy 81 Pease. whish ioak plare N
September II ,La' ssar. and ron ,hsl line
20 Msy, l7S5, lie aas. or Tie no., rari.
sAh his faihsf ID England. Holland. and
Ffsnrr.
~ his own solicitations, Ills fa.her per.
miiled him, when eighteen years If see,
70 return 70 IL native eouniry. Soon al.
ifr rearhirg America. lie entered Harvard
University, ~ ~ advanced slsnding. and
sas gradaalrd with d stnen,shrd honor,
. Baehelor d Aru, in 1857. lie then
entered he office 81 tie celebrated fheo-
Phiius Parsons, ., Nrwburypar,, after.
wards chisi justice 81 Massaehuseit.; and
after the usual prriod Of ll.rss years spent
in The study Of me law, he entered the
profession, and established himselfIn Ros.
ton.
Ileremaintdin lhalsilnaiion fsur wears,
occupying himself indusfinusIy ~ his
riiice. ex'eading lis acquaintance with The
great pr neiplss 81 Iaw. and al,o 10 king
part in The public questions which lhen
occupied tie attention IL HE country men.
In The summer 81 1891 he pntl,shrd 80
ries Of p'psrs in the Ros'on Cshlinel, 10
der Tie signature II Publicnls. containing
remarks upon the first p,ri Of Pslne's
Rights Of Man. They suggested doubt.
IN reference 70 the favorable issue or lie
French Reynluunn, II time aben most
Other men saw nothing but good ~ that
awakening event. The lssue proved the
ssgscity ri Publico'a. These pieces we're
u hrst a-cribe,l 10 his father. They were
reprinted in England.
Ia April. 1893. IN The fret informs,ioR
nf war between Great Britain and Franee,
and tefore Warrington had published his
proclamation ~ neutrality. or il was known
that such a step was contemplated by him.
Mr.. Adams published in The Batton Gen.
tinrt shiee ARTICLES signed Marcellns. The
otjrcinf whlrh WIS 10 pro, that The duly
aud interest &c lhe United States required
them 10 remain neural in that war. In
these paprrs he developed the two rriuci-
pies. which have ever been the basis Of
his creed a. a statesman; the one is UNION
a. home, the other INDEPENDENCE Of all
entansliog alliances with any foreign
States whatever. 49,
In the winter Of 1884, lie Published
another series Of political essays. confirm
ing. and mere fully developing these
views. and vsndicatug the course Of pres
ident Washington IN reference 10 The pra-
ceediags Of the French mlnisles, Genet.
In May, 1893, he was appointed by
Washington. without any inlimstion Of
snclI design, made either to him or to
his faiher. minister resident Ia the Uni,ed
Netherlands. IL was supposed al the time
that he was selected y, consequence al his
having been recommended To the favor
able notice Of Washington, as a suitable
person for such an employ menh by Mr..
JEFF, rson.
From 1904 10 1901 he was in Europe.
empl"ye ed in diplomatic business. aud as
public minister, in H"l'aad, England.
and Pussla. jus, as President Wash
irg,on was retiring from Office, he APP
pointed him minister plpnirolt ntiary to
the court Of Portugal. While on his way
10 Lisbon, he rereit ed new commission,
changing liz destin#ton I'D Be,hn. lie
resided IN Berlin iron November, 1891
to April 1901, aud while there concluded
a highly imp rant ueaty of commerce
with Prussia, thus accomplishing the OBJ
iect OF his mission. Ele was then recalled
Just heiure the clnse III hls fathers Satlmln-
ts,ra'Su. and arrived IN Philadelphia in
September, 1901.
IL 1902 he was elected. fram the Bus
Ton district, a member Of the Massa
chus, tvs Senate. and was snon alter APP
pointed, BY the Legislature ot tia, s ate,
Senator IN the Congress Of the United
States for six years, from The 4th Of
Mach, LsG3. As h,s views OF public du,
ty led him 10 adopt course winch he had
reason 10 believe was ti-agreeable 10 the
Legislature of the State he represented.
he resigned h,s seat in March, 1903. In
Mach. 1909. President NJ ,d,s"n noml-
mated HIM Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister PlenipolehLary to the Court OF
Russia.
Some time previous to this. however,
in 1906, he had been appointed Pr"t''s-
soral Rhetoric in Harvard University,
q, Cambridge IN Massachusetts. 81 ex
traordinaTy were his. powers oil eloca-
ton. so Iervld his imsg,na'ire faculties,