The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-29
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~ can identify, with absolute GER
tainty. only one of the statesmen.
o for the tongue OF him who lies at rest
In Quincy's shade of patrimonial trees.
Last OF the Puritan tribunes and the best
To lend a voice to freedoms sympathies.
This can he none other than John
Quincy Adams. the sixth President OF
the United States and from 1881 10
1SiS a member of Congress. where n
made a wonderful and persistent fight
against the extension OF slavery ana
finally defeated the so-called gag rules
whittier was rather close to him, had
edited some letters Of his on the slavery
question tPickard. 20S) and called OF
him when he was struck by %apopleNy In
WASHINGTON tPickard. 32S-2s). Adams
died February 20, lsis, and as can be
seen on the last page OF his biography
by John T. Moore, Jr., he lies buried
under the portal o. ;ie church AT
Quincy. lie was held In great rever-
ence by all lovers of freedom. and m
wonder that Whittier thought of him as
the fittest to
i hail the coming Of the noblest
guest
The o!d Worlds wrong has given the New
World OF the West,
A to the two other statesmen whom
| Whittier arraigns bitterly as betrayers
OF their sacred trusts. | can advance
| Only theories.
mir. t..'s idea that they may he any
Of the many who had objected. TO a
nationwide reception to kossuth is IL
logical. ! cannot give you their names
just now without much digging among
my notes. but YOU can easily get them
from volume NNlv. OF the Congressional
Globe, where the whole disgraceful de-
bate on kossuth's reception Is recorded.
This IN. however, lmnIaterial, for IL il
evident tNlat. In Looking for a person
worth" ~ welcoming kossuth. those
who were opposed to him would not be
considered. Whittier could have had IN
mind only statesmen who were friendly
to liossuth, but had failed on the all
important question Of sla very. And they
must have been men Of national size.
not the rather local fgures who objected
tn Congress - kossuth's reception.
II can mink OF only two men living
In 1851 who would answer these condl-
tons Henry clay and Daniel Webster
Calhoun having died the year before).
Whittier had been an enthusiastic adj
mlrer and supporter OF Clay In his early
life. but turned agains: him in 1894 for
being the enemy of freedom tPickard.
l?). clay was the father ~ tho ON
promise OF 1850 concluded only thir-
teen months before Eossuthls ARRIVAL
which nfiamed the minds OF the ibo-
litionists. He was. like Webster. an
admirer OF kossuth and was convinced
OF the righteousness OF Hungary's cause,
but-Igain like Webster-was opposed
20 kossuth's Intervention for No--In.
tervention' doctrine. Kossuth made a
personal call on him. and the inter.
view was reprinted in The report of tnc
special committee. &C. OF New Yors
city.
"All this makes me believe that Whit.
tiers first sentence. which Is not 81
severe as the seco d, referred 10 clay
This theory Is somewhat weakened b,
; the circumstance that Clay was in pooi
health at the time in fact. he diec
during kossu;h's ~sojourn In the Unite,
States.
AS to Webster, ! fully concur. II,
rAd b"el looked upon as an uncom
promising champion OF liberty. and HI,
seventh OF March Cls50) speech came a
a keen disappointment; To all his friends
The lines
from lips DESIGNED
The buxle march OF liberty to wind
And cal. her hosts beneath the breskin
The keen reveillc OF her morn OF nght-
refer plainly Ia Webster, for Clay wa
rot expected To lead the fight agains
slavery. being known as opposed t,
prouisc .Irhnbod ars, nuLi,sL,h !;
MAY. 1870. reveals ,hs ir,orsty =,
Wbi,t',,'s ;rllgn.,i,, as, v..n..a, ~
sec,io, ="
"Sey.r mop,bs l.,ar waLs,.r u,o.
l.. T., mon. IiuaIs.na,n l.,,a~ -
b. he psfsrded Kossn,h nrd tI,n ~,
aytoil.d tho AmarIc,n go, -,
,rrn,ar, ~, ,ha U -,
~. Dhn .NP."ee y +,uslIIa
.ne.ch IN Jini",,aa s'u.,'
Il. cnpslIc,ed Nv ,hn u,oriS =, ""
= nohia nio,a o.
ster, and how far. | am un,hIe N ca,
| doubt II. though for no U,a,se,ar
|, letter had no hearing on tho slavsrv :
tho b,acks =
I'm order TO solve the oues,ior d.s
- nitely. II IL be soluble ,t ali VIM,
60, Snouio suggest a search OF me hles {
we E'" Ior 80" ana lsol' which VIII
,ti eu''eu "'ouhu 'nat Time, ana no
,Ws ut'er'hCrS on 'laN ana Nebste
"o a'o'ss 70 .he h,d'
ct ~ v "ol qu''e imposSiole mat bot
p.rson in mis- cas-. Wohs,er -, do'n
a The words ali her s.cred ,r,s ~ 80,
ING may he ,aEe, ,o ,aiu, 49, 80.
but. after All they may boy. 49, -,
j" for clay. for he TOO had done see
II. wears before. what W,hi,tie,. cnrsda,,
a BETRAYAL Of trus, As noi,,.d on, n
u fore the nrst sen,arc. ~ h,. ,ar w., y,
severe as The second and Tho nho
80 construc,ion conveys to mo- rho msani,
al This Is all | can say OH the subie
at prespnt NAV have sou,thinr