Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-27

of the United States Senate from the
state of Massachusetts.
Under date of June - lAtio, Mr.. ADAMS
writes from Quincy declining to make an
abridsment of his works on the ground
that he would rather undertake to write
many new ones than to abridgc the
Old ones. and observes that some fifty
years ago | learned from Lord Coke that
abr:dgments were chiefly useful to the
| makers of them" He then proceeds to
discuss the subject of the inquiry and
gives some interesting information con-
corning the framing of the Constitution.
which think is entirely new. He says
| in the beginning:
You say that our ungovernabie news
papers have published something con-
corning my works to my disadvantage.
| ! thank you for this epithet 50 simple.
natural and exact that | wonder that
| it has never occurred before. 4 great
minister OF state. in the estimation OF
the world, the Count DE Nergannes. once
said to me. Mr.. Adams. the newspapers
| govern the world Let me ask you. Mr..
| Perley if that is not true in our own
| country. sometimes to dcT profit. some
times to her loss. Let me ask YOU again,
| if the world is governed by ungovernable
newspapers whether il does not follow
| the world is unsovernable
Complains of Newspapers.
The newspapers have represented my
| writings as monarchial, having a
monarchial tendency, an aristocratiral
tendency. In answer to these charges
| only wish to have them read. ] have
represented The British constitution. the
most perfect model that has Yet been
discovered o. invented by human genius
and eXperienc for the government OF the
great nations of Europe. 1t is master
piece 1t is the only system that has pre-
served or can preserve the shadow.
the color. the semblance of liberty to
the people in any Of the great nations
of Europe. Consider the republics of
Venice, Holland and Switzerland: not a
particle Of liberty to the people was
preserved in any of them more than there
Was i'm France. Tor so much neither.
Our own Constitution l have repre-
scented the best for us in our peculiar
situation while we preserve ourselves.
while Independent and unallied to any of
| the great nations of Europe. An alliance
with either France or England would,
in my humble opinion put an end to
our fine system of liberty.
In 1171 and 1916 there had been dis
| pntes in Congress and the several states
| concerning a proper Constitution for the
| several states to adopt for their own
| government. convention in Pennsyl-
vania had adopted d government in one
| representative assembly and DIR. Frank
/ lin was president of that convention.
| The doctor. wien he went to France in
1916. carried with him the printed copy
| of that Constitution and it was imme-
dately propagated through France that
| there was a plan that this was of the
government of DR. Franklin. but Timothy
| Mattock james Cannon. Thomas Young.
and Thomas Paine We're the authors of
| it. Mir. Tursot. the Dude de la Roche
! foucau,d Mr.. Condorcet and others ad-
mired Mr. Franklin's Constitution and
| reprobated nine.
Three Volumes of Defense.
| "Mr. Turgot. in a letter to DR.. Price,
which DR.. Price printed i'm London. re-
/ fprY ~ ms itIIfipn "a