President John Quincy Adams’s 4th of July address, 1837, Part 3: The Separation of People
An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport, at their request, on the Sixty-First Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1837. By John Quincy Adams. (Continued) But this is not the reason for which you are here assembled. The question of right and wrong involved in the resolution of North […]
President John Quincy Adams’s 4th of July address, 1837, Part 2: First purpose of the Declaration of Independence
An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport, at their request, on the Sixty-First Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1837. By John Quincy Adams. (Continued) For the second object of the Declaration, the assumption among the powers of the earth of the separate and equal station, to which the […]
President John Quincy Adams’s 4th of July address, 1837, Part 1
An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport, at their request, on the Sixty-First Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1837. By John Quincy Adams. “Say ye not, A Confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say A Confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.” Isaiah […]
John Quincy Adams, Part 12: The Pledge Fulfilled
An Address delivered at the request of a committee of the citizens of Washington: on the occasion of reading the Declaration of Independence, on the Fourth of July, 1821 Continued from previous post: Fellow-Citizens, our fathers have been faithful to them before us. When the little band of their Delegates, ” with a firm reliance […]
John Quincy Adams, Part 11: The Interest in Which the Declaration has Survived
An Address delivered at the request of a committee of the citizens of Washington: on the occasion of reading the Declaration of Independence, on the Fourth of July, 1821 Continued from previous post: The interest, which in this paper has survived the occasion upon which it was issued; the interest which is of every age […]
John Quincy Adams, Part 10: What the Declaration is Not
An Address delivered at the request of a committee of the citizens of Washington: on the occasion of reading the Declaration of Independence, on the Fourth of July, 1821 Continued from previous post: It is not, let me repeat, fellow-citizens, it is not the long enumeration of intolerable wrongs concentrated in this Declaration ; it […]
Part 9: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America
John Quincy Adams, An Address delivered at the request of a committee of the citizens of Washington: on the occasion of reading the Declaration of Independence, on the Fourth of July, 1821 Continued from previous post: In CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to […]
John Quincy Adams, Part 8: Causes of Separation
An Address delivered at the request of a committee of the citizens of Washington: on the occasion of reading the Declaration of Independence, on the Fourth of July, 1821 Continued from previous post: Yet, Fellow-Citizens, these are not the causes of the separation assigned in the paper which I am about to read. The connexion […]
John Quincy Adams, Part 7: The just relation between sovereign and subject
An Address delivered at the request of a committee of the citizens of Washington: on the occasion of reading the Declaration of Independence, on the Fourth of July, 1821 Continued from previous post: It is a common Government that constitutes our Country. But in THAT association, all the sympathies of domestic life and kindred blood, […]
John Quincy Adams, Part 6: A solemn exposition to the World
An Address delivered at the request of a committee of the citizens of Washington: on the occasion of reading the Declaration of Independence, on the Fourth of July, 1821 Continued from the previous post: Fellow-citizens, I am speaking of days long past. Ever faithful to the sentiment proclaimed in the paper [The Declaration of Independence] […]
