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- ‘Acquit of evil intention
- or inclination to perseverance in error
- to correct it with cheerfulness
- particularly as to the motives of actions
- of the great nations of Europe.’
- for the planting
- and ruling and ordering of New England
- from latitude 40° to 48°
- TO THE GOVERNOR AND THE COMPANIE
- whereon Thomas Adams
- 19th March 1628
- 18th assistant whereof the said Thomas Adams
- (abbreviated)
- Merry Mount become Braintree, a plantation near Weston’s
- Capn Wollanston’s became Merrymount.
- ten head 40 acres at 3/ (shillings) per acre
- who lasted 6 years, brewing commenced by the first Henry
- continued by Joseph Adams, his son
- at decease left a malting establishment.
- Born 1735; 19th Oct. old style; 30th new style John Adams
- its emolument gave but a bare scanty subsistence.
- ‘Passion of orthodoxy in fear, Calvinism has no other agent
- study of theology
- wd/ involve me in endless altercation
- to no purpose, of no design and do no good to
- any man whatsoever ...
- not less of order than liberty ...
- Burke, Gibbon, beautifiers of figures ...
- middle path, resource of second-rate statesmen ...
- produced not in Britain:
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tcha
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tax falls on the colonists.
- Lord North, purblind to the rights of a
- continent, eye on a few London merchants ...
- no longer saw redcoat
- as brother or as a protector
- (Boston about the size of Rapallo)
- scarce 16,000,
- habits of freedom now formed
- even among those who scarcely got so far as analysis
- so about 9 o’c in the morning Lard Narf wuz bein’ impassible
- was a light fall of snow in Bastun, in King St.
- and the 29th Styschire in Brattle St
- Murray’s barracks, and in this case was a
- barber’s boy ragging the sentinel
- so Capn Preston etc/
- lower order with billets of wood and ‘just roving’
- force in fact of a right sez Chawles Fwancis
- at same time, and in Louses of Parleymoot ...
- so fatal a precision of aim,
- sojers aiming??
- Gent standing in his doorway got 2 balls in the arm
- and five deaders ‘never Cadmus ...’ etc
- was more pregnant
- patriots need legal advisor
- measures involvin’ pro-fessional knowl-edge
- BE IT ENACTED / guv-nor council an’ house of assembly
- (Blaydon objectin’ to form ov these doggymints)
- Encourage arts commerce an’ farmin’
- not suggest anything on my own
- if ever abandoned by administration of England
- and outrage of the soldiery
- the bonds of affection be broken
- till then let us try cases by law IF by
- snowballs oystershells cinders
- was provocation
- reply was then manslaughter only
- in consideration of endocrine human emotions
- unuprootable, that is, human emotions—
- merely manslaughter
- brand ’em in hand
- but not hang ’em being mere human blighters
- common men like the rest of us
- subjekk to
- passions
- law not bent to wanton imagination
- and temper of individuals
- mens sine affectu
- that law rules
- that it be
- since affectu in 1770, Bastun.
- Bad law is the worst sort of tyranny. Burke
- disputed right to seize lands of the heathen
- and give it to any king, If we be feudatory
- parliament has no control over us
- We are merely
- under the monarch
- allegiance is to the king’s natural person ‘The Spensers’
- said Coke, hatched treason denying this
- allegiance follows natural, not politic person
- are we mere slaves of some other people?
- Mercantile temper of Britain
- constitution ... without appeal to higher powers unwritten
- VOTED 92 to 8 against Oliver
- i.e. against king’s pay for the judges instead of
- having the wigs paid by the colony
- no jurors wd/ serve
- These are the stones of foundation
- J. A.’s reply to the Governor
- Impeachment of Oliver
- These stones we built on
- I don’t receive a shilling a month, wrote Mr Adams to Abigail
- in seventeen 74
- June 7th. approve of committee from the several colonies
- Bowdoin, Cushing, Sam Adams, John A. and Paine (Robert)
- ‘mope, I muse, I ruminate’ le
- personnel manque we have not men for the times
- Cut the overhead my dear wife and keep yr/ eye on the dairy
- non importation, non eating, non export, all bugwash
- but until they have proved it
- in experiment
- no use in telling ’em.
- Local legislation / that is basic /
- we wd. consent in matters of empire trade, It is
- by no means essential to trade with foreign nations at all
- as sez Chas Francis, China and Japan have proved it
- weekly in Boston Gazette from ‘74 until Lexington
- wrote Novanglus, then shooting started
- allus them as putts off taking a side
- and lastly in superintending the preparation of
- bills of credit, to serve as dollars durin’ the struggle
- then moved for a navee
- which he got, after some ridicule
- Guided pubk mind in formation of state constitutions
- e.g. N. York and N. Carolina
- retain what experience has found good,
- central authority, war, trade, and disputes between states
- republican jealousy which seeks to cut off all power
- from fear of of abuses does
- quite as much harm as a despotism
- 9th Feb to end of that year probably very laborious
- Birth of a Nation
- privateers not independence, what is?
- sovereign state
- acknowledged of nations and all that
- sovreign state and all that
- by other nations acknowledged
- when his Brit. majesty lords commons have excluded from
- crown protection
- May 12th, ‘as 12 months ago shd/ have been’
- regards independency being moved and accepted June 7th
- spies and persons counterfeiting—or abetting in same—
- our continental bills of credit
- or knowingly passing the same to be punished
- no word, orationem, probably not elegantissimam
- Routledge was elegant
- ‘said nothing not hackneyed six months before’
- wrote J. A. to his wife
- I said nothing etc/ letter to Chase from John Adams
- the people are addicted, as well as the great, to corruption
- Providence in which, unfashionable as the faith is, I believe
- Schicksal, sagt der Führer
- with pomp bells bonfires on the 2nd day of July
- than any social community has ever yet carried out
- reasonable act only by its geography
- INadequate concession by England,
- always too late (sero)
- Britain never in season, reciprocation by trade
- Cavalier, sentiment rather than principle
- TO serve liberty at a higher rate than tyrants wd/ pay ’em
- you shd/ have numbered yr/ regiments, you never send me
- accounts e.g. of guns, numbers, their weight of metal
- I never know of what size (frigates etc/)
- Impassible moderation of Washington
- saved us by stoppin’ catfights between officers
- For proportional representation—
- Clearest head in the Congress
- (John’s was)
- THUMON
- we want one man of integrity in that embassy
- Bordeaux, and passed on to Paris
- the ethics, so called, of Franklin
- IF moral analysis
- be not the purpose of historical writing ...
- Leyden Gazette, Magazine Politique Hollandais, Calkoen,
- Amsterdam bankers, directed to Mr A. by Gen. Washington
- (Cornwallis’ surrender)
- De Ruyter still cherished memories of Dutch freedom
- doivent tousjours crier la Liberté,—amis de la France shd/
- remarked Flassans
- and especially the consonance of Van Capellen
- personal visits to deputies at der Haag
- Leyden, Harlem, Zwol were petitions
- Zeland, Overyssel, Gronye, Utrecht and Guilderland
- so on the 19th of April
- John got his answer and recognition, categoric
- Mr Adams has demanded a categorical answer
- for the U.S.N.A. letters of credence / we say that he is to be now
- admitted as envoy 1782 Birth of a Nation
- corps diplomatique
- His literary connections sans which was no opening
- a stranger to language and manners so in his correspondence with
- Dumas, without money, friends, against intrigue
- to pecuniary advances
- in fact from Willink, van Staphorst and Fynje
- 5,000,000 guilders to maintain our overstrained credit
- till 1788 relations
- His relations with bankers in Amsterdam
- in October a treaty of commerce, by no arts or disguises
- no flatteries, no corruptions
- who to the age of 40 years
- had scarce crossed the edge of his province
- transferred to Adam Street in the Adelphi
- suspecting the post boy of humour in taking him there
- Magazines, daily pamphlets in hands of men of no character
- in fact one bookseller said to me: can get ’em at a guinea a day
- to write pro or con anything. Hired!
- Found archery still being practiced
- Credit till I returned to America
- Ice, broken ice, icy water
- 500 miles on a trotting horse in dead winter
- but never as on that journey to Holland
- (England to Holland)
- Struck down our men, shattered our mainmast
- never as on that going to Amsterdam,
- fundamentals in critical moments
- literature and philosophy are the rage in even
- fashionable circles
- and Frederick’s treaty of commerce
- toward mitigation of maritime law
- considerably in advance of world standards
- philanthropy not wholly free from suspicion that
- the new states cd/ profit
- The Duke said that John wd/ be stared at,
- to make gain out of neighbor’s troubles
- secondary misfortune of Britain.
- AS of a demonstration in Euclid:
- system of government
- Immediacy: in order to be of any effect
- perceive taste and elegance are the cry
- which I have not
- Libertatem Amicitiam Fidem
- a new power arose, that of fund holders
- fond of rotation so that to remove
- their abuse from me to the President (Washington)
- TO be punctual, to be confined to my seat
- (over the Senate)
- to see nothing done (by the senate)
- to hear nothing said, to say and DO nothing
- borrow for trading very unmercantile
- by thought, word, never encourage a war ...
- horror they are in lest peace shd/ continue
- will accumulate perpetual DEBT
- leading to yet more revolutions
- He (Adet) announced to the President the entire
- annihilation of factions in France (18 June ’95)
- He (Jay) returned yesterday to N. York
- very sociable and in fine spirits
- no Chief Justice yet named to succeed him
- happily he is elected before the
- treaty was published
- as factions
- against him wd/ have quarrelled whether right or the contrary
- to colour their opposition
- elegance of J. Q. A.’s style is admired
- properties of serenity in OBservation
- but where shall be found (1795) good men and true to fill offices
- Washington’s cabinet posts go a-begging
- to four senators, and to more whom I do not know nominatim
- King, Henry, Cotsworth (?) and Pinckney
- all have refused it (similarly for the War Office)
- expenses here so far beyond salaries
- Integrity rewarded with obloquy
- I believe the President will retire
- Dangerous that President and V.P. be in opposite boxes
- persons highest class of ability enlisted
- habitually in elaborate discussions
- assiduously read by the people
- I hate to live in Philadelphy in the summer
- hate speeches messages addresses levees and drawingrooms
- been 30 years among these rocks whistling
- (Amphion) and none wd/ ever move without money.
- Had I eloquence humour or irony, if Mr Jefferson be elected I
- believe I must put up for the House
- believe I
- might be of some use in that body, retirement
- (Washington’s) removed all check upon
- parties
- Mr Jefferson, Mr Hamilton
- the latter not enjoying the confidence of the people at large
- to oppose Ham to Jeff wd/ be futile
- whereon Ham set to undercut Adams
- ’96 till 1854 no president chosen against Pennsylvania
- ‘the old man will make a good president’ remarked Mr Giles
- ‘but we shall have to check him occasion’lly’
- ‘manoeuvres that wd/ surprise you’ wrote John to Abigail
- a love of science and letters
- a desire to encourage schools and academies
- as only means to preserve our Constitution.
- Elleswood administered the oath with great energy.
- Napoleon’s conquest of Italy
- created a paradise for army contractors.
- whereon Senor Miranda
- was for making great conquests and Hamilton ...
- Talleyrand ... Mr A. not caught asleep his cabinet
- so that on the 18th of Feb. the senate recd/ the nomination of Murray
- and a communication of Talleyrand’s document
- assuming no risk in trusting
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the professions of Talleyrand.
- Not vindictive that I can remember
- though I have often been wroth
- at any rate staved off a war
- roused the land to be ready
- a pardon for all offenders
- (i.e. poor dutch Fries and companions)
- formed own view of Hamilton’s game (and his friends’)
- which wd/ certainly have tangled with Europe
- wont to give to his conversation
- full impetus of vehement will,
- charged course of Ham and his satellites
- to disappointment that they hadn’t
- got us entangled with Britain
- defensive and offensive
- Snot, Bott, Cott left over from
- Washington’s cabinet
- and as for Hamilton
- we may take it (my authority, ego scriptor cantilenae)
- that he was the Prime snot in ALL American history
- (11th Jan. 1938, from Rapallo)
- But for the clearest head in the congress
- 1774 and thereafter
- pater patriae
- the man who at certain points
- made us
- at certain points
- saved us
- by fairness, honesty and straight moving
- ARRIBA ADAMS