Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-22
Mr.. John Quincy Adams Latest Let
ter.

Mr. John Quincy Adams, as his fire.
quent letters upon political subjects assure
us, is gentleman of infinite jest and most
excellent fancy. His correspondence
with Buncombe is large, and there is
probably no one in the country who en-
joys il more than he. But even humor
has its limits and even the constituency
of Buncombe has some common sense
In his last letter Mr.. Adams remarks that
"a mere majority, even if it could be
mustered, would not be permitted to
elect q Democrat for next President
Nothing, then, remains but civil war or
submission to the usurper; and il is diff
cult to decide which alternative will inflict
more irreparable injury upon the habit
of free government" Isn't this rather an
extravaganza of Mr.. Adams humor? OF
course we expect to hear from an oppo-
sition party in a hopeless minority that
the Constitution is violated and the coun-
try is ruined until 1t gets into power. But
when Massachusetts, politician, just de-
feated in his own town as candidate for
the Legislature, airily talks of civil war
as remedy for the unfavorable result of
an election, he should be reminded that
he is merely echoing the secessionists of
1860, and his profession of regard for
as contemplate as theirs.
Mr. Adams says that the Democratic
party is "powerless alone to relieve us. ="
And whyy Simply because the spirit of
his letter is believed to animate that party
The people of the United States, who un-
derstand both what liberty and constitu-
tional methods and duties are, will have
no more of this bloody threat of civil
war from disappointed and defeated party
leaders. Civil war has been tried, and it
has failed to battle the lawfully expressed
will of the people. The rebellion was an
insurrection against the lawful majority
Messrs. Toombs, and Davis, and Mason,
and Slidell, and Wigfall, and Benjamin,
said, as Mr.. Adams says now, Nothing,
then, remains but civil war or submission
to the usurper;" and they chose the war,
which Mr.. Adams now says is not worse
than submission.
| The rebel leaders called President Lin
coin gorilla and baboon Mr.. John
! Quincy Adams calls President Grant IAN
President Lincoln bloody tyrant Mr..
John Quincy Adams calls President
Grant ga usurper" How is he usurp,
er? He was elected by an actual and
lawful majority of the votes cast and
that, notwithstanding the frauds of Mr..
Adams party friends, the Tammany
Ring, and the coercion of the colored
vote in some of the States by Mr.
Adams political allies, the Ku-KluX. Mr.
John Quincy Adams, at the end of the
war, and in the protecting presence OF
Mr.. Montgomery Blair, in Fanueil Hall
went over to the party of Copperhead.
and eX-rebels, and now remarks that
Republican administration blunts "tht
keen sensibilities of popular liberty :
and joining the author of the PlaqueRin,
frauds and the Tammany repeaters anC
ballot-box suffers, declares that "if tn,
votes of any of the States lately in rebel
lion were necessary to elect Democratic
candidate, they would be thrown out il
the counting"
Mr.. Adams mistakes himself. He is
humorist, not "A statesman nor politica
leader. He is unable to see that mo party
can hope for success in this country who's,
policy in defeat is the Mexican policy o
armed revolt, or whose fidelity to liberty
and equal rights is so uncertain as that o
the party which he has joined. He is
gentleman of education and intelligence
and from his tongue or pen aspersion'
upon the President as intending an armed
maintenance of his position against til,
popular will, which might be eXcusablt
from Ku-Klux orators in remote Southern
districts, are dsgraceful. The people o.
the country will observe that Mr.. Adams
as an, eX-Republican and the newest of tn,
Democratic lcttcr-wIiters, is deemed to bt
one of the most reasonable and advanced
men of his party. Yet he does no
hesitate to speak of the probable resul
of the election in the Southern tone o
1860. His letter justifies more fully thar
any thing which has been lately published
that profound distrust of the Democrat,
party which is felt by the most intelli
gent and patriotic men.-HdIper's Weekly