Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1848-03-17
BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS,

life, from the American Review of lS45.
is interesting at this time.
john Quincy ADAMS was born in
Braintree, Massachusetts, in that part
OF the town since called Quincy, July IL.
1867. He was favored, In the period
which his life has covered, as we'll as in
the influence under which it commenced.
His history runs back as far as the begin
ming of the revolution, embracing its trv-
ing and stimulating experiences, and in
cludes the range of wonderful events
which have been accumIat!ng within the
last seventy years. The youth of Mr..
Adams, dating into his childhood, was
certainly marked by very many cireum-
stances, as unusual and memorable as
the long and eminent career of his pub
lie life has since proved fitting sequence
to them. Towards the close of the wear
l777, John Adams was appointed ioipt
commissioner with Benjamin Franklin
and Arthur Lee, TO the Court of Versailles.
The boy, John Quincy, then in the elev-
enth year Of his age, accompanied his ia
Their TO France, and arrived in Bordeaux
early IN April, l775; and during the
eighteen months Of his fathers stay in
France, he attended French school, study
ing the native language with the usual
classical exercises. They returned to A
merlca, and arrived in Boston on the lst
August, 1879, in company with the Chew
alier de Luzerne, who had been sent by
the French Government as Minister to
the United States. Within three months
after his return, his father was again des-
patched to Europe by Congress, and took
his son with him on this second Voyage.
Certainly, no person in this country
was ever favored with such an education
as fortunate circumstances gave to the
youth of John Quincy Adams. The
voyage and residences Of his father in Eu~
rope, were precisely adapted to nurture
and bring into vigorous development all
the desirable qualities and attainments of
mind and heart of one destined TO act
great and patriotic part in the history of
his country. 4 better school for young
statesman cannot be imagined, than his
while with his father on his
missions to foreign courts while the
lessons of virtue and religion were reiter-
ated TO his mind and heart in the letters
of his rare and excellent mother. And
his character and attainments, while In
foreign countries, during this portion of
his youth, gave evidence that his oppor-
tunitles and privileges were not thrown
away.
He was at school at different times in
Paris, in Amsterdam. and In the Univer-
sity of Leyden. In 1881, Francis Dana.
(who had been Secretary to the embassy
of John Adams( was commissioned as
Plenipotentiary to Rusia, and took with
him John Quincy Adams, then fourteen
gears Of age, as his private Secretary. He
remained IN Russia with Mr.. Dana until
October, 1882, when he left st. Peters
burg, and returned alone through Sweden.
Denmark, Hamburg and Bremen, to Hol-
land, spending the winter IN the route,
and stopping some time In Stockholm,
Copenhagen and Hamburg In Holland
he remained some months, until his ia
ther took him 10 Paris, where he was pres
ent at the signing of the Treaty of Peace
in September, 1888: and from that time
to May 1850, he was with his father in
England and Holland, rs well as France.
At London, he had rare opportunities for
the early formation Of the future states
man, being introduced by distinguished
members Of Parliment upon the fooor of
the House, and listening many times to
the eloquence of Burke, Pitt, Fox, Sher
idan, and other eminent orators. whose
talents at that time adorned the British
nation.
In his eighteenth year his father yiel-I
ded to his solicitations, and allowed him
10 return to his native country. He en-
tered Harvard University at an advanced
standing, and was graduated as Bachelor
of Arts IN l787-then twenty years old
with distinguished honor. He then en-
tered the office at Newburyport Of the eel
ebrated Theophilus Parsons, afterwards
Chief Justice Of Massachusetts, and on
completing the study of the lew, estab
llshed himselfin Boston where he remain
ed for four years, extending his acquaInt-
ance with the first principles of law. In
the summer Of I19l, he published a series
of papers, widely circulated and much
spoken OF, containing remarks upon the
first part of Paine's Rights of Man, in
which he showed his sagacity in being
among the first to suggest doubts Of the
favorable issue Of the French Revolu-
ton.
4 passage from his diary at that period
finely illustrates the severe opinions he
had formed of the laborious diligence TO
be pTactlsed by young man, Of whatever
abilities who may be DESTROYS of efectu-
ally serving his country, or of acquiring
for himself an honorable name; and fol-
lowing out the sentiments thus recorded
which presented, like 4 mirror, the fore
cast otall his subsequent long and active
yet always studIous Iite-he applied him
self with renewed effort to whatever most