The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-06-01
Interesting Sketches of Charles Francis Adams,
Historical Student Hawthorne, the Literary
Genius and SHAKESPEARE, the immortal
and Original Poet
BY DIR. T. b. kINGSBURY.

of American history now among the
New Englanders. He is the grandson
of President Quincy Adams, of Mas
sachusetts, and a great grandson OF
John Adams, the second President OF
the United States. These two, and
Franklin Pierce. of New Hampshire,
were the three presidents furnished
by New England. Pierce was a gen.
uine Democrat, and was the fourteenth
president and was born in New Hamp-
shire, in 1904, and died in 1869. He
was elected to the United States House
when but tw~enty-nine years old, was
educated at Bowdoin College and was
elected United States senator when
t%hirty-three, being the youngest mem
Der of that then very noted body. he
resigned his place after four years
service, refused all political offices
until elected president. He was dis
tinguished in The Mexican war. and al
ways commanded the respect and con-
fdence Of his own people n the
nation. His father fought in the
Revolutionary War, was an intense
Democrat, and was governor of New
Hampshire in 1927. There were
greater men in that ambitious and
eager section Of the American Union,
but the three named were the only
three who attained to the highest-po
sition in our government, in this land
of the free and the home of the brave
and the upright and noble. HI last
Adams is a broader and perhaps more
astute man than his distinguished an
cestors. I think his own father,
Charles Francis Adams. after whom
he was named, bore a highly honora-
BILE and distinguished character. He
was Minister to England.
Mr.. c. f. Adams. the grandson of
John Quincy, is a man to know of and
to esteem highly. He can be trusted
in his opinions, for he is informed
and broad-gauged and temperate in
eight, perhaps, he delivered a very
noteworthy address before the New
England Society at Charleston. S. G.
1t was On the occasion of the New
England Society's celebration and the
subject handled by the accomplished
representative of his section was a
rye of American history and par
ticularly Of the Constitution. The
purpo Of the speaker to demon
strate that the Civil War was an in
eVitable consequence Of the divided
sovereignty and allegiance due to the
loose Union of ''imperishable States"
established by the Constitution. The
New York Sun. a very able Republi-
can daily, says of the doctrine dis
cuSSed:
This is not new doctrine. for in
substance it ran through the whole
of the long debate Of the .COnStitu-
ton and the rights of the States re-
served under it which agitated the
Union almost uninterruptedly through
out the period antecedent to the Civil
War. Slavery was only incidental to
the discussion, though, OF course, from
the distinction betWeen Southern and
Northern civilization established by
it came the fire which directly in
famed the spirit Of war.
You see from his tina seven years
agO there We're actually in the North
some men, and a leading Republican
editor among them, who had a correct
understanding of history and a true
insight into the naming of the great
war and what was involved. And now
read carefully what follows from the
Sun, it will do YOU good. and show
clearly to all Southern men of andor
n intelligence how the great South
ern doctrine grew and how it mas
since been maintained. I cite now
from the Sun:
LAS Mr.. Adams says, every State
of the federation became a member
OF the Union with mental reservations
but the one thing u ancestry united
in most apprehending was a central
lied government Accordingly. they
assigned to the Union a modicum of
sovereignty, conferred another modi-
cum on the State governments and re
served whatever remained to them
selves. To which. then. was the allie
glance due? Mr.. Adams finds that the
record from 1888 to 1861 still left
the question open, and, in case of di-
rect and insOluble issue between SOW
ereign State and SOVEREIGN Nation
every man was not only free to de-
clded for himself. but had to decide
himself; and, whichever way he de-
clded, he was right"
make room for another citation
from the Sun and Mr.. Adams:
That is, the Civil War. was made
inevitable by the fact of divided SOW
Celsnty the divided allegiance of the
CONSTITUTION The question of sover-