New-York tribune., 1876-04-21
NEW. PUBLICATIONS.

not greatly increase, as 1t approaches the cose' i'
record OF political events devoted chiefly to questions
Ia hayo now ohso etc. and to reconectons OF
pulc men, who were prominent ia tho conflicts OF
patty but whose names a present scarcely sugseSta
memory The attractions Of this volume consist eheuy
In t Illustrations OF the personal characerm the autho
which Is exhibited without 10 the privacy oi the
diary presenting the same remarkable compound oi
kindness and prejudice, sincere friendship ana htter
hatred. dependency Of feeling and energy OF action
prrity OF intention and rashness OF Judgment which we
have frequently had occasion 20 notice in the progress o
the work. Mr Adans's fayOrite studies are not h"ugh
forward so prominently in some of the previous
volumes, but there is sufficient to show hls uh
firing devotion science and letters, IN splts
,f the distractions OF pubho life. The fonowihs
passage affords interesting example 81 read rear
son. g. 4s, the reading nicrOscOpe 49, on the piuho
lire So on the spiit-evel ana 81, on arthcim horF
Ms These are all inventions for improving ana per
fecting the great instrument Of Astronomical ooserVa
ton, the telescope. The practical usefulness vi '
science seems confined to nagatorS on the ocean, hn"
they generally Know little more OF 1t thah 70 @he INC
altitude Of the sun upon the meridian and with INC op
OF tables in the Nautical Almanac 10 "orh o"' 'NN
longitude To me- the observation OF the SUM- moon ana
stars has been for great portion Of my life pleasure
Of gratihed curiosity, Of everreurning wonder auu o
reverence for the Creator and mover OF these nnlu
bercd worlds There is something of awful enjoyment
In observing the rising and setting OF the sun Iha'
flashing beam of his first appearance upon the horizon
that sinking Of the last ray beneath it, that perpetna
revolution of the Great and Little Bear round the poei
that rising Of the whole constellation OF Orion from the
horizontal TO the perpendicular position ana his rlde
through the heavens with lis belt his nebuloHs sword
and his 1our corner stars OF the first magnitude, are
sources Of delight TO which never tire Even the
optical deusion by which the motion OF the eaih from
west appears to the eye as the movement Oh Tue
whole ornament from east to west swells the coneep
ton OF magnicence to the incomprehensibie lnhhite
There is indeed lntermnged with all this painful de-
se 10 know more of this stupendous systen of sorrow
In rejecting how little ever can know OF II; ana oi
almost despondi hope that we may know more OF u
hereafter"
In the record under date CT November, 1888, Mr.
Adams gives an account conversation with Dr. Chan
pipc showing the state Of his mind at that time on the
subject OF slavery and bis great dsrst OF the poca
influence of the aboionsts "Between breakfast ana
dinner visited DR.. Claiming. 1 had conversation
again of two with him upon the subject OF
abolition of slavery The Doctor was heretofore an
idol of the party calling themselves Wings but mas
become very obnoxious to them They had almost "oI-
shipped him saint; they now call him Jacooih ne
Is deeply sensitive this change in his worldly iabe'
and exceedingly fearful that the abolition cause VIII 60
TO rum or that aboOnsts will stir up an lnsnrrcc
ton of slaves and lead dissolution OF the Union In
his youth he resided time in Virginia ana ls"e
acquainted with the character Of the planters IN at
State which, he thinks has undergone great ana To-
markabe change since he lived there that is within the
last forty years then struck with the great ana
unhounded security in which they lived in the midst OF
their slaves and surrounded 10y them, and nightly AT
their mercy their lives They were also then people
careless of property, iInproviden and hrliess' ana
generally wasting their estates in expenses Deyond the
means He thought them now at least as economical
thrifty and parsmonious as the people OF the Norm
He smoke OF the family in which he lived the heads o.
which had been, at one period Whle ne was 'neie' o
some time from home, leaving him III charge OF tle 40
mestic establishment And there was then one save
who slept not in the house himself but came regularly
nd the nlglt ana cdi-
risd away the key Much Of this security was owing to
the fact that among the household slaves uheIe was
almost always more profoundly attacheo 10 lne
masters and II ever any project of insubordnaton or
disorder was formed among the hed-siaVes the mouse
servants aways disclosed 1t their masters The Doc
tor said there were now at the South many women ln-
elned 10 favor the abolition OF slavery; that ii the
course OF the last Summer he had Travelled IN company
with lady OF Baltimore who 1old bin that she was her
seIf AN abolitiOnist and that muttudes OF southern
women were 80 at ther hearts But he REQUIRED con
tipualy 10 the fact that the Southern Shareholders
would dissolve the Union" During the WINTER OF
1910 Mr.. Adams had frequent opportunities OF nsNh-
ing 10 the preaching OF Mr. Goodman, the celebrated
Methodist minister, who at that time was chap-
Iai, of the House The eloquent divine made
deem impression on the statesman, who was often
affected even by the pathos OF his ofatoy one
of his dseourses thus described: "Waddy thompson
was there and Immediately after the service was over
said that Mr. Goodman was the very worst speaker
he bsd ever heard life. What wholesale Judgments
men Of sense and honor VIII pronounce o-handl Mr'
Goodman had Just delivered most powerful, eloquent
arcumentatve discourse the vitality OF the resur
recuon Of Christ the truth Of the Christian regon-@
discourse which had drawn streams OF tears from my
ewes which had fixed q crowded auditory IKE 80 many
marble stales In silent and intense attention, 1--WE
hundred pair eyes beamng from the circumference TO
the center Of hall focal pont-the preachers
face discourse which, had been forty years younger
would have studied the substance FORM and manner OF
a IN Unit te and improve and Maddy
Thcmpson, himself eloquent and intelligent man.
pronounces the the worst speaker he ever heard
in his fel Mr. Cookmau's of delivery is over
charged much resembling the manner OF The late taee-
dian Kean upon the stage; but would give more than
money for such manner, to graduate and control it
with a cool and deliberate Judgment
A scene IN Congress which occurred in April, lS4o,
affords Adams the opportunity for Characteristic
e1son against his political adversaries In speaking OF
whom he was not in the habit OF mlncing Words "Ihe
House then went into Committee of the Whole the
state Of the Union upon the Appropriation Dill; ana Ar
Mckay who had taken the floor last evening made one
of his insidous snakeke speeches. Interviewing with
nm ostensbe defense Of the present Administration ven
omous insnuatODs against me and mine. Mckay Is
politioa Mrs Candour. smooth oil outward form,
and fetd as polec4t in inward SAVIOR. He damned Win
faint praise report Of the minority OF the Committee
ON Manufactures in February, 1888. made no answer
hut Evans Of Maine gave him instantaneous and
most efectual thrsshng, which left his argument not
whole bone Then came AtheTton, of New-Hampshiro,
the Of the mongrel gag Ho had speech \ shreds
aud paches-Scraps OF old newspapers, extracts from
nv messages from Je1ersons writngs from English re-
views from BlaekvoOd'S Maga-ae. frout anonymous
pa,nphlets and eeconeering handbs, with schoOiboy
dissertations the origin OF the two great parties
and the contrast OF their principles the Democrats and
the Fedoalists responsibility 10 the people, the elo
ouepce Of Tuy in support Of the Roman demoedeg the