Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-22
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ye say he hath devil!"
 Although she never went to school, this parsons daughter was by long odds the cleverest in the entire line of otif Presidents wives, her published letters forming a delightfully."- human document in sur too often unhuman history, When John joined the fathers of the republic in the great work of setting up the most masculine govern
 ment the world ever saw. this mother of the republic had to stay home to rock the cradle, cook and patch for four little Admases and to tend the farm. Milking and cnurning, knitting and darning, teaching and praying. toiling and saving. she supported the
 family inspired by her husband In his progress to the Presidency, and reared a son to follow in the fathers foot steps. To Abigail Adams alone De- | long the glory of having been the wife | of one preside1s and the mother of another.
 Although Lawyer Adams defended | the British soldiers on trial for
 shooting down the citizens in what | is called the Boston Massacre, the | patriots snlt hin to Congress. where 1 he sprahg the first proposal of Wash | ington's appointmnt as commander l in -chief. Not that he ever cared | much for George, but he wanted the | Virginians and the others in the yet l conservative Congress to adopt the rebellious troops gathered about Bos- ton. thereby committing all the col onies to the war, which until then had been only a local conflict in New England.
 In the war, it fell to Adams to do
 picket duty In Europe. Congress sent
 him to France with a thoughtful
 warning to put into the bottom of his
 dispatch bag plenty of lead or stone or Il other weighty substance to sink his papers. For his own neck no protec- i tien was proposed in event of the British capturing signer of the rebe
 manifesto of July 4. IT'S. Neverthe- , less, he took with him on the perilou, trip his ten-year- old son, John Quincy
 On the next voyage, he carried no only John Quincy. but also his second son, and they were shipwrecked off thu i coast of Spain. Having to ride mule 7 back over the mountain.. they wer, { three months on the road to Paris r Never mind; the boys picked ul i Spanish a1cIg the way!
 l After five long. anxious years c 9 separation from husband and children n the mother herself sailed 10 Europe a and the pioneer American w5ma n t
 appear dl ltlp AJui Ot Gt. JdIifS wa
 Abigail, the farmeratte of Braintret = Her presentation costume, aecordin
 to her own description, w.s whit
 .utcktrng covered witt white t-cpt
 fcS.co.ed with lilac ribbon and moo
 Ro.~t ls ce, over T hefp of 4normou
 extent, and with a narrow train thre e yards long; also fuffle cuffs, trebl e lace ruff1es and dress cap, with Ion Il lace lapp6ts and two white plumes.' s You will be stared at a great deal e the Duke of Dorset izIndly warned tr n adamses. On tfs contrary, eger e back in the court circle was turne d upon the Yankee rebels and Quee IS Charlotte received Abigail wit e, "contempt and scorn.'
 F 4 man can defend himself siway 1f as AbiEairs husband did right maj 't fully when it fell to him to be the fir = independent American to stand befo s. the throne of England. George IS vefiturins to infer from his suppos' i'd dislike of France, a preference II England, his ene-time subject frank IS corrected the King: T must avow y Your Majesty that I nave no attac et ment but fo my own country" 1t That was not an idle boast. It v nt the simple truth-the very corn Tt stone of the life of John Adams.
 Tomorrow: Our Unhappiest PreI te dent.