New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-01-27
A Milk and Water Adams.


signed c. F. Adams, Jr., has led to the mis-
take made by the Bulletin, in particular, of
supposing the writer to be the original ia
cobs. Tho minister to England during the
administrations of Presidents Lincoln and
johnson, who year or two ago evinced his
gratitude to his patron and appreciation of
the honor by slandering the martyr Presi-
dent; whose career in England is chiefly
remembered by the number Of Confederate
private ers built and equipped in that coun-
try, almost sanctioned by his milk and
water protests, and by his absolute indiHer-
ence to the fate of American citizens seized
on Irish soil; whose return, post haste, to
America in 1868, to obtain q nomination by
either convention, laid him safely on tie
shelf for four years; who wrote q silly let
ter imposing conditions on the Cincinnati
convention, only equaled by another from
his son John to the Louisville Bourbons;
who came to Faneuil Hall the other day
with some more country people to represent
Boston, not expecting to meet Wendell
Phillips; this distinguished gentleman
always signs his name Charles Francis
Adams, and looking at it with mental
magnifying glass would no more abate one
letter Of it than he would part with OF
allow one acre Of the paternal land, which
the bustling town of Quincy surrounds, to
be improved. "The town of Quincy, sir,
rejected my son John"
The other claims to notice presented to
the American people by the ex.minister are
that he had father and grandfather who
were noted, not only for possessing great
or wealth Of brain than most of their fellow
beings, but because it has since been de-
monstrated that they left none of their
wealth behind them, and that he has son
who has defeated the Democratic party of
Massachusetts, by being its candidate for
Governor more times than he has hairs on
the top of his head, the place where the
hair ought to grow.
Bat he did not write that letter. Its
composition is the work of still more
diluted prodact Of the Quincy milk farm.
Mr.. c. F. Adams. Jr., is the sen of 'the son
of the last of the Adamses," as Rufus
Choate said, and is a profound student
of books. He has published several articles
in the North American Reviev, the "Erie
Railroad Row" attracting the most atten-
lion; is lawyer, and was once appointed
railroad commissioner to settle some of the
Bay States difficulties with the corporations.
The advice of the letter which is so salts.
factory to the Bulletin, in brief, is that the
Conservative Legislature Whatever that
may be) should ':give notice" that when
s'day of relief" comes every debt and tax
title of the State of Louisiana shall be re-.
pudiated. Meantime, they are to ''disperse"
and "submit." As the Bulletin, with firm
reliance in the ''day of relief" considers
this advice good from its standpoint, it can
have no objection to it's being accepted az
such from another. If this advice were
carried ont strictly in accordance with the
letter, It woI,.. aaave a most beneficial effect,
but not in the way anticipated by the Bulle-
tin. Should the White League and its allies
and the discordant and revolutionary ele-
ments "disperse" and submit" until the
next election, there would be an era of |
peace and good order in Louisiana for
nearly two years. That would be ''day
Of relief" and would have such beneficent |
effect on the welfare of the State that the |
truly conservative, orderly and respectable |
people would never allow the "dispersed" |
to disturb them again. By all means, gen.
tlemen, accept the advice Of MIR. Adams.
From the date of the epistle it appears
that the writer vegetables on the farm with
The "Old man." The scene that is daily
presented there at the frugal evening meal
must be worthy of the pencil of Jonathan
rrumbull. Omitting 9 description of the
historical hearth, andirons and shovel, the
Inevitable snowy table cloth and patriarch
i chair, and the table loaded with whole
ome food called. in spite of Joel Barlow,
nush and milk, and illuminated by candles
my grandfather never heard of gas), the
,roup surrounding it must arrest attention.
1t the head the venerable descendant, re.
reshing himself with undiluted milk after
he labor of composing the first sentence of
n answer to Phillips, to be published after
he latter's demise; next his namesake,
unior, meditating the probable extent of
lis suferings when the Bulletin discovers
hat his father didn't write that letter.
pposite my son John, laboring at present
nder the misfortune of having NO impossi-
le nomination to decline; Henry, further
own, composing an argument on an ex.
ected brief, and around the foot juvenile |
who twill be Adamses when old |
dams is gone"
The moment to be selected by the artist ,
when, in consequence of the consumption
supply, the demand has ceased, and with
the clatter Of spoons against the bowls; ,
10 patriarch has raised his farewell tum-
Ter of milk and opened his mouth the
Of the descendant each indi. /!
idually raise tumblers of milk and water,
nd shut their mouths; silence proclalms an
kpectation of an avalanche of wisdom. II
The first words seem to be q monologue
idressed to the descendants own great .
ess: "My father and his father, my grand
'ther, were Presidents of the United I
sates." Then turning to his sons who bow ;;
leir heads and clutch their tumblers more !
rmly in expectation: "Your grandfather G
Id his father, my grandfather, were Pres
ents of the United States" The tender ;
loots Of the extinct ancestra! stem at the .
OF of the table suck their empty spoons, a
I'd asthe venerable eye turns upon them. '
their agitation lay themselves liable to +
aternal correction by unconsciously mois- ?
ming the sp0tless linen with their dilnted | b
ilk. "Your grandfather's father and his !
ther, my grandfather, were Presidents of 3
o United States, Another examnle of tho | 8