September 20, 1861
The article first commends the action of Gen. Fremont, “emancipating under martial law all the slaves belonging to the rebel slaveholders in Missouri”. It then notes that President Lincoln has annulled that act, by making “it conform to the confiscation act adopted by Congress”. The article then goes on to quote John Quincy Adams who asserts that the President, as “commander of the army, has power to order the universal emancipation of the slaves”…Referring to the “annulling”action of the President, the article says: “It is time for such folly and fatuity to end. Either the government must abolish slavery, or the independence of the Southern Confederacy must be recognized. A reunion upon the old basis is alike undesirable and impossible.”
June 16, 1848
Here are remarks by Theodore Parker, delivered at the Melodeon, March 5, 1848
In the same paper there is a “sketch” of Parker’s speech at Faneuil Hall, before the New England Anti-Slavery Convention.
March 10, 1848
Washington correspondent of the Emancipator, Henry Stanton, gives an account of Adams’ death.
March 3, 1848
An item from the National Intelligencer tell of the death of Adams on the floor of Congress.
November 21, 1845
A letter from Adams, Aug 19, in Quincy commending a proposed publication of a book on Tobacco. Adams recounts his previous addiction to tobacco, and that he has been free from that addiction for more than thirty years; he no longer feels its “stimulating power”. He urges all to try but for three months the experiment which he made. He would “turn every acre of tobacco into a wheat field.”
December 29, 1843
In an article which expresses a strong hope that the gag law will be repealed in the present session of Congress, and praising the Massachusetts Legislature for its resolves which have had positive affect toward that end, the article comments that a speech by Mr. Adams was “exceedingly defective in several particulars, and far from being creditable to his heart …. He is no modern abolitionist — not he - but only such an one as was Thomas Jefferson, who lived and died a slaveholder!”
February 3, 1843
62,791 people have signed petition to the state legislature, and 48,000 to the US Congress. John Quincy Adams was selected to take charge of the petitions to Congress.
November 11, 1842
A letter from Adams, explains why he cannot become defender of Latimer, but offers his counsel to any who defend him.
September 23, 1842
Constituents of Adams, in the twelfth district, meet in Braintree, and welcome Adams,after completion of the longest Congressional system known to him, for the ten years he has been in Congress. Strong words from Adams, and strong resolutions passed to support the right of petitions to be presented and heard.
March 11, 1842
Under Refuge of Oppression, preceded by a comment:”Another touch of democracy!” From the Boston Morning Post, titled The North and the South: “We are sorry to see the New Bedford Morning Register, a paper for which we have a high respect, promulgating the same sentiments relative to the South that have filled the federal papers ever since the adoption of the Constitution. In taking this ground, however, we are not astonished to see the Register quoting in its support the language of a federal-whig-pipe-laying governor. Jefferson said that the democracy of the South were the natural allies of the democracy of the North. The federalists know this, and finding that they cannot conquer the democracy of the North and South united, have always sought to divide them, even at the cost of the Union. This is now the scheme of the abolitionists, (the tools of federalism) — of John Quincy Adams, who was reared in the hot-bed of federalism, and acted with them as one of their chief men……” At the end there is this note: “The Register has since obsequiously kissed the ‘democratic’ toe of the Post!”
