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 […]