The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-29
Letters OF John quincy Adams.
vS11-tSIt.


| All the letters in the fourth volume of
! The Writings Of John QUINCY Adams.
edited by WoRTHINGToS e. Ford Mac
millans) are dated from ST. Petersburg.
the first on January 81, 1911. the last
on December 81. 1913. These are the
latter years sf MIR. Adamss Ministry to
Russia, begun under appointment Of
President Madison in 1909 and termi-
mated with his participation in the peace
negotiations that ended at Client in
1914, when Lcvett Harris as Charge
d'Anaires took up the duties of Amtri-
| can representative which he continued
10 perform until the appointment of
William Pinkney of Maryland as Min
lister. In 1916 The European and Amer
lean politics of the time are pretty thor
oughly reported in this correspondence
in the manner characteristic of a states
man correspondent: many OF the letters
are to the Secretary of State and were
, written in large part in cipher. while in
others. particularly those to his mother.
| Abigail Adams. the correspondent reveals
himself and describes his surroundings
| One wonders how the statesmen of
those days managed to combine so much
/ business with so much letter writing
! and is inclined to emotions of gratitude
J toward the inventors Of the typewr' ter
and the telegraph for holding off 50 long
/ their ant-lterary devices Of epistolary
I aCCcleration
/ Tho AdamseS were statesmen, not
! politicians. no party men. John Quincy.
/ federaliSt. not only inherited his fathers
| unpopularity in that party heated by
the elder Johns parliamentary duel
with Alexander Hamilton. but increased
1t, first by his Cqual!fiedl approval Of
Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase and then
, by his support Of the embargo policy
! Enghnd's embargo on the north coast
OF Europe and Frances measures retail
iatorv in Kind alike afflicted American
shipping. and would have been Suhi-
Cient Justification for declarations look
ing toward war had this nation been
stronger in respect OF martial sinew
| England did the greater harm to our
trade. but Fcdcral.st resentment
! turned toward France when jefferson
put his embargo ON home ports John
Quincy not merely supported the meas
ure in public hut WAS a member of tho
committee that reported il. He scored
! the Federal party for pusillan.mitv in
trucking 70 England, even in tho time
covered by tho present volume ne used
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