Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1852-11-11
UupubIi.hea Lester Of Jeka Q. Adams.
Communicated for the Journal Of Commerce.
WASHINGTON, April Is, 1886.

UnpubIished Letter Of josn 2. Adams.
Communicated for the Journal Of Commerre
WASHINGTON, April Is, 1886.
Robert Walsh, Esq, of Philadelphia:
My DEAR SlR:-An article in the Ma
tional Gazette some weeks since indi-
eating the hand of your son, gave me
the first intelligence of the long and dis
tressing illness with which you have
been afflicted, and from which lament
TO learn that your convaiescence is YET
so incomplete as to leave You disabled
for writing but bv the hand of your
daughter. II is still an immense con-
ISOLATION, upon which | heartily congrat-
ulate you, hat you have the benefit oI
such an assistant. May she long be
preserved to render You the same SER
vice when needed; and may you soon
for a long, long season cease 10 need the
service. o.
As 10 the materials for the sequel Of
nv life and adventures, since the period
when was a candidate for the Office oil
President Of the United States, scarce
ly know how to point them out 10 you.
At the election of 1895, as you know
there were four candidates three OF
whom we're returned to the House OF
sentatives-besides a fifth who
had sunk by his own weight into the
secondary rank Of an aspirant to the
Vice Presideney-in which he succeed
ed for the moment. by the ruin OF his
after prospects, | believe, forever. My
election was effected in the House bS
the junction Of the fourth and excluded
candidates supporters with mine, and
that operation produced the subsequent
failure of my reelection, the triumphal
elevation of my predecessor, and the ir.
retrievable disappointment: OF him who
had, as a last resource, linked his poit.
ical fortunes with mine, but who from
that hour was deserted and betrayed by
his own party. They gained the coali'
ton of the three preceding disappointed
candidates, and thus left me at the cleo
ton of 1928, 10 my own solitary
strength. That remained dnimpaired
but was unequal 10 the contest with the
united power OF the four parties com
bined against me, and | fell.
The four parties defeated by my cleo
ton in 1926, were all as adverse TO each
other at that time. as the four parties
constitutir the Wings are al present.
The Democracy were Crawfordites, and
they had made Congressional caucu:
nomination of him, but in the electora
colleges they had been able TO muster
only the votes Of four States, and that
was the sum total Of his vote in the
House, Had the Kentucky delegation
obeyed the instructions of their Legisla'
ture, and voted for Jackson at the first
ballot. the whole Crawford vote would
have been for me at the second. After
the election, they went in mass over
to Jackson, and have ever since consti
iuted his principal strength. They gave
him Democracy, Virginia and Van Bu'
ren.
The frstthr Years of my admins.
tration were occupied in settling the
proportions of the spois between the
coalescing parties. The West was
bought by the promised plunder Of the
Public Lands, part of the bargain moi
yet entirely consummated The South,
by the unhallowed sacrifice Of the lndi-
ans, some of the fruits of which we are
now enjoying Internal improvement,
the manufacturing interests, and free la
Dor were sold for southern machinery,
State. right paper money and a simple
machine-the Colonial trade, the Pana
ma Mission, and the bargain, were tubs
for the whale. The great weapon a.
eainst the Administration and aguinsi
me was sfander, and from the military
chiefiain himself down 10 Jonathan Rus
sell. 1t was urged without cessation and
without mercy. The last words spoken
by Warren r. Davis in the House o.
Representatives OF the United States, in
June, 1884, were, pointing at me-"for
the share that hid in overthrowing the
Administration OF that gentleman, | hope
God will forgive me-for never shall
forgive myself" He is gone to his &C,
count. and assuredly not an individual
of his party survives, but has much
more 10 answer for of that sin than he
had. '
II would require volumes to give you
the detail Of what is comprised in this
summary OF public affairs during my
Administration. My ina gurai address
and any first annual message 10 Cons
gress contain the PRINCIPLES and politi'
cal system OF my Administration. The
three succeeding annual messages ex'
hibit the succession of.public measures
and events connected with the incident:
of my life, Ehave heard that transla-
tions of the inaugural addless and of the
first. annual message have been pub
lished in some pamphlet Of Chateaubri'
and, as expositions Of the American SIS
tenn OF goyernment=Tbut il was onl y M
system, and il has been superseded by
1 Bank and Indian wars, Modification
! Tariff Compromises, the surrender o
Colonial trade, and, to use the language
of Burke. "the languishing chineras o
! fraudulent reiormatiop-"'idas sdi ia 6.
But all this has been done BY the De
mocraey, and TO the Democracy we mus
all bow, the knee and the neck. Aspi
| ralions for the amelioration Of the con
dition Of our race must be kepti in con
slant subordination to the voice of tb'