Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1867-03-26


ton, very small fry manage to make pro-
digious splutter, and to create no little hurry
upon the superficial current of public affairs.
We remember that it was so during Mr.
Tyleris administration, which was charac-
terixed by the extreme obscurity OF those
who, for the sake of salary, rallied to its de-
Tense. Respectable seaports were continual
ly astonished by the arrival of alien Collec-
tors with commissions in their pockets, and
postmasters utterly unknown to the inhabit,
ants took command OF the correspondence o.
the vicinage. Mr.. John Quincy Adams,
who is the son of Mr.. Charles Francis
Adams, the grandson of Mr.. John Quincy
Adams, and the great-grandson of MIR. john
Adams, is a young lawyer who was noml-
mated for Naval Officer of Boston by the
President. Being rejected by the Senate,
newspaper organ of the White House plays
direes over his remains, and wants to know
| II Il is decent thing thus to treat man who
is the son, &C., the grandson, &C, and the
great-grandson, &c, Now, If we understand
the matter, this young man was nominated
to the Senate not as SON, not as grandson,
not even, singular as it may appear, as a
great grandson, but simply as person, an
individual, a youth. Therefore, when the
organ insinuates that by his rejection the
Senate has cast contempt upon his ancestors,
1t makes slight mistake. tits the boy who
Is waYwardly disgracing his lineage; it is
the Senate which srallying tothe vindication
of those fair and venerable names. 1t is
the Massachusetts, Senators who are obliged
to assume the task of vindicating the credit
Of the family, and of giving the neophyte a
lesson which he alone has made necessary.
But according to the organ, young Mr..
Adams did not want the office, and telegraph
ed to the Secretary of the Treasury that he
did not want it, and ''that his professlonal
engagements, as counselor-at-law, were
''such as to preclude the possibility of his
accepting the office" The tremendous
business engagements of Mr.. John Quincy
Adams did not prevent him from running
i the other day for the Legislature; nor did hi
pedigree, which his friends, not we, are os
Il tentatiously airing, save him from being de
4 cidediy beaten by the ex-Postmaster, who's
J. head be had helped to take off-a very re
II spectacle man, with regular father, grand
T. father and great-grandiather. Experienc
Ii is useful to the young, and now Mr. job
i'd Quincy Adams knows how pleasant it is
as be guillotined. He has fine opportunit
le for moral reflection-that is, if his 'profe
r. stsional engagements as a counselor-at-law
n, will permit.
The organ above quoted anticipates tr
mendous reaction in Massachusetts, in Co
ke sequence of the indignity offered to this i
ms dubitsble and illustrious great-grandson.'
nd "Let the headsman beware,n grinds the i
strument, ''for Massachusetts will remei
% "herr' Remember whatp That the Pre-
IN dent named for an Office young gentlem
who did not want the place, and, moreov'
sd who could not take it, in consequence
st. professional engagements; and to whom,
ast he is rich, the salary would not be of
The least consequence; and that the Senate,
old the exercise Of its discretion, saved the nor
~ nee from all embarrassment by declining
Of confirm himi The organ calls this "thiT
rue aIng for his biood,n and begs Massachuse
cry to s'remember." This would be a mt
bur sensible appeal if we were not told, in I
same paragraph, that Mr.. Adams the YOU
est has been slaughtered" and, not havi
been much thought of while living, il
hardly likely that he viii blossom in the d
very extensively. Itanything could brl
him to life, it would be this foolish puff,
we trust that it will recall him from the to
70 the 10y of his breaved and distracted
on. ente.-Nep York Tribune. N