Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-11-01
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Unpublished Letter of John Quincy Adj
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Fro n the Boston Journal
We are permitted by the kindness of the
gentlemen to whom it was addressed. to pub
fish the following letter from John Quincy
Adams which has never before been printed.
AT this moment there is, there can be, but
two parties in the free states-those who sus-
tain the government and those who obstruct
1t. five are to regard the present contest
as a elimination of conflict of ideas this
letter throws the whole weight of Mr. Adams
great authority on the right side;
WASHINGTON, August, 1912.
Thomas Loring, Esq, Hiaghaap
My Dear Str-I have duly received your
kind letter of the 25ult., and shall take great
pleasure in attending the meeting of my fell
low citizens and constituents, personally
friendly to me, at Mr.. Perkins meeting house,
in Braintree, at o'clock on the afternoon of
Saturday. the 18th of September next, then
and there to give an account of my steward
Ship and to offer the tribute of my gratitude
to my masters, the people of the twelfth con-
gressional district of Massachusetts, for their
continued confidence and undertaking kind.
ness to me during the whole ten years of their
existence, a congressional district. | name
the 18th Of September it being yet uncertain
at what time the session of congress will close,
though hope it will not reach beyond the
22d of this month.
The primary and most operative cause of
all the sufferiugs of the country at this time is
StdCery. The Declaration of Independence
laid all the political institutions of our Union,
as a nation, on the broad foundation of christ
ian principle and the unalienable natural
rights of man.
But while proclaiming this theory, and APP
pealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for
the rectitude of their intentions, our ances-
tors practically held half million of human
beings in the most abject and oppressive slave
ry. Their intentions then were to emancl-
pate them; but instead of fulfilling those in
tentions, they have suffered this class of pop
ulation to multiply six fold, till they form
nation more numerous than the whole people
OF the United States at the period when they
achieved neutrality-suspicious.. Three millions
of the people of the southern states are the
property OF five millians of the same peOple
The owners of this property, valued at twelve
hundred millions of dollars, send twenty-five
representatives to congress, of this property,
for which they pay not one dollar of tax No
such property exists or can exist at the north.
Thus the minority of the nation, holding twelve
hundred millions of dollars of wealth in hu-
man bone and sinew, flesh and blood for
which they contribute not one dollar to the
public revenues, send to the house of repre-
sentatives twenty-five members for this prop
eyty, besides as many for their own persons
as the freemen of the north send for theirs,
and these twenty-five supernumerary mem
bers settled into a perpetual preponderat-
ing weight, now constitute the government de
facto OF the Union. Instead of representa-.
ton going hand in hand with taxation, the
weight OF representation is on one side, and
the weight of taxation on the other See
some OF the consequences-your president,
president Of the senate and speaker of the
house of representatives are shareholders
Five out of nine judges OF your supreme
court, including the chief justice, are slave
holders. The cOmmander-in-chief of the
army and the general next in command are
shareholders. OF the commanding officers
in the navy, four-fifths are shareholders
Legislative, executive, judicial military and
naval power, are all, without one exception,
in the hands of Shareholders. Is it surprising
If they tell you that the free labor and indus
try Of the north shall, be outlawed from the
protection Of the government? How long is
this to be tolerated? The agony of the ma
uon at the present hour is the ripening fruit
of the same plant. The anti-bank, anti-tariff,
anti manufacturing, anti-internal improve
ment, notification political system, mounted
on royal stills in the nations house. is erect
ed on the t-and-blood-cemented base
ment story of slavery. 1t is by little less
than a visible interpositon of providence
that we have at this very session of congress
been saved from war with Mexico for the
conquest of Texas, and war with England
for the protection of slavery and the slave
trade. Nor is the danger yet over, but there
are CLEANS of light opening upon us, which l
indulge the hope will yet brighten into clear
sky. The reduction instead of an enormous
increase Of the army-the check upon a pre-
posterously bloated project of increase to the
navy-the altered tone of negotiation with
Great Britain, and the altered aspect of meas
ures looking toward Mexico and Texas, ex-
hibit more of the olive in our eagles left claw
and less of the arrows in his right, than were
somewhat ostentatiously displayed in the early
part of the present session of congress. Even
the beggarly account of empty boxes in the
treasury MAY have proved salutary warning
against rushing headlong into war-but the
crisis has yet to come. The tariff bill is yet
before the captain, and we are in hourly ex-
pectation of yeto-number four.
l am, dear sir, faithfully yours,
j. o. ADAMS