The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-01-03
LORD BROUGHAM AND JOHN QUINCY
ADAMS.

Mr.. Editor: The following remarks of Cole
ridge, in one of his published letters, dated Oc-
tober IL, 1920, very true and applicable to Mr..
Adams and his party al have never yet seen,
heard, read Of any advantage, in the long rum
curing to good cause, from unholy alliance with
evil passions, and incongruous alien purposes
1t was heavy my heart that the peo-
pe alike high and low, do perish for lack of know
LEDGE that both sheep and shepherd, the hocks and
the pastors go astray among the swamps and in desc
late places, for the want of the truth, and nothing
but the truth and that the sacred motto which |
have adopted for my first political publication, (he
Watchman,) would be the aspiration of my DEATH
bed-hat all may have the truth; and that truth may
make us free" In the same work from which the
above was extracted, (Letters and Conversations,
&C., of s. j. Coeridge,) an extract of letter of
Jacquemonts, written from the Himaaya noun
tains, affords the following reflections, which Mr..
Adams may also take to himself. 81 have Just read
the sixteen immense columns Of Lord Brougham's
speech on the 7th October, 1891. What talents but
what perverted use of talents! What Disagree
able kind of talent is that which disguss the hearer
instead of conciliating him! If were public man
would study Brougham, not to resemble him
What is the use of that cutting wrong, that bitter
sarcasm, that .upercous pride What is the use
of these Greek and Latin verses" IL Lord Brougb-
am is obnoxious to such reproof, how much more
is Mr.. Adams. His I.ordship assembled to his POI
litical position Mr.. Adams, on the contrary, de-
,cended; he stepped fromIhe Presidential chair into
the arena of party strife, in which he has cast dirt
10 ived
will Just add the remarks Of the editor of the work
aforementioned: It's painful thus to speak of
man variously gifted one possessed professionally
of great talents but it is needful to bear in mind
that, though men of restless natures and irritable
temperament have frequently been the instruments
Of functional Improvement, they are totally unsuited
to times which require organic changes. If this be
the case with regard to men who are restless from
enthusiasm, or whose fermentation arises from the
crude state Of their minds, and respecting whom
there is yet hope, when experience shall have mel
lowed their convictions; what shall we say of hose
to ,ohom time brings mpropemen-age no mental re-
pose?n Yet | can never believe that
man so variously gifted, must at some time or other
have had aspirations of higher and purer nature
than should seem possible, judging OF the turmoil
and turbulence ofhis latter career" This may have
been true of Lord Brougham, but thin not of Mr.
Adams. The quiet duties of professor Of rhetoric
were not suited to him. During his miss ons abroad
the discharge Of his duties Secretary of State
and the higher ones of President he was surrounded
by the conventional iorms of State and stiquete.--
He was always en- masqe. 1t was not until he de-
scended from the Presidential office, into the arena
# political strife amidst its turmos and turbulence
that his true character manifested itself There his
evil passions have full play. There in tn. nellie,
CLEANS his bright weapon, and friend and foe are
made to feel his angry irony his scornfu sarcasm
bis sharp satire. Contention is necessary to him II
OF plebeisn birth, aud athletic limbs, in Rome, he
would have been gladiator. His vigorous intel
lect, in Washington, is enerej TO irrtste, not TO
soothe the sUifes Of party. Can We believe that