Download or read book John Quincy Adams on the War Power in Relation to Slavery and Emancipation written by John Quincy Adams and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery written by John Quincy Adams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final years of his political career, President John Quincy Adams was well known for his objections to slavery, with rival Henry Wise going so far as to label him "the acutest, the astutest, the archest enemy of southern slavery that ever existed." As a young statesman, however, he supported slavery. How did the man who in 1795 told a British cabinet officer not to speak to him of "the Virginians, the Southern people, the democrats," whom he considered "in no other light than as Americans," come to foretell "a grand struggle between slavery and freedom"? How could a committed expansionist, who would rather abandon his party and lose his U.S. Senate seat than attack Jeffersonian slave power, later come to declare the Mexican War the "apoplexy of the Constitution," a hijacking of the republic by slaveholders? What changed? Entries from Adams's personal diary, more extensive than that of any American statesman, reveal a highly dynamic and accomplished politician in engagement with one of his generation's most challenging national dilemmas. Expertly edited by David Waldstreicher and Matthew Mason, John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery offers an unusual perspective on the dramatic and shifting politics of slavery in the early republic, as it moved from the margins to the center of public life and from the shadows to the substance of Adams's politics. The editors provide a lucid introduction to the collection as a whole and frame the individual documents with brief and engaging insights, rendering both Adams's life and the controversies over slavery into a mutually illuminating narrative. By juxtaposing Adams's personal reflections on slavery with what he said-and did not say-publicly on the issue, the editors offer a nuanced portrait of how he interacted with prevailing ideologies during his consequential career and life. John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the complicated politics of slavery that set the groundwork for the Civil War.
Download or read book Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams written by Josiah Quincy and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Quincy Adams on the War Power Over Slavery written by John Quincy Adams and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Speech of John Quincy Adams on the Joint Resolution for Distributing Rations to the Distressed Fugitives from Indian Hostilities in the States of Alabama and Georgia written by John Quincy Adams and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document is a printed transcript of a May 25, 1836 speech given by John Quincy Adams, former U.S. President (1825-1829), while serving as a U.S. Representative from the state of Massachusetts (1831-1848). Adams speaks on joint resolutions before the House of Representatives to appropriate funds for the relief of citizens of the states of Georgia and Alabama who were displaced by various Indian "hostilities" (specifically among the Creek and Seminole Indians). Adams first discusses the constitutional powers of war and peace and how these powers are related to House appropriations. He then discusses, among other things, the recent capture of Santa Ana in Mexico and issues surrounding the Texas territory and how these events relate to the recent forced removal of the southeastern Indians. Adams goes on to assert that although he intends to vote for the bill, he firmly believes that Georgia and Alabama are responsible for creating the violent situation through their cruel and dishonest treatment of the Indians throughout the Southeastern region.
Download or read book John Quincy Adams Reluctant Abolitionist written by Jeffrey A. Denman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a Harvard alumnus, diplomat, U.S. President, member of Congress and attorney before the Supreme Court, John Quincy Adams had a unique relationship with slavery. Prickly and curmudgeonly, he danced with abolitionists, but never became one himself. However, Adams did harbor an intense hatred for the arguments of Southern slaveholders, and eventually found himself in the center of America's greatest struggle. Informed by Adams' revealing and often tormented musings from his vast diary, this sweeping narrative offers a unique and gripping account of John Quincy Adams' battle with slavery, while exploring the many fault lines in American society that led to the Civil War. Included are the dramatic showdowns in the House of Representatives and Supreme Court, as well as Adams' attempts at outsmarting Southern politicians and his efforts to keep slavery at the forefront of Congressional activities.
Download or read book John Quincy Adams written by Biographiq and published by Biographiq. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Quincy Adams - Old Man Eloquent is the biography of John Quincy Adams, who was a diplomat, politician, and the sixth President of the United States (March 4, 1825 - March 4, 1829). His party affiliations were Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig. Adams was the son of United States President John Adams and first lady Abigail Adams. He is most famous as a diplomat involved in key international negotiations, and for formulating the Monroe Doctrine. Late in life, as a Congressman, he was a leading opponent of the Slave Power, arguing that if a civil war ever broke out the President could abolish slavery by using his war powers, a policy followed by Abraham Lincoln in the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. John Quincy Adams - Old Man Eloquent is highly recommended for those interested in learning more about this fascinating American President.
Download or read book John Quincy Adams Diaries Vol 2 1821 1848 LOA 294 written by John Quincy Adams and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 989 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark new selected edition of an American masterpiece: the incomparable self-portrait of a man and his times from the Revolution to the coming of the Civil War The diary of John Quincy Adams is one of the most extraordinary works in American literature. Begun in 1779 at the age of twelve and kept more or less faithfully until his death almost 70 years later, and totaling some fifteen thousand closely-written manuscript pages, it is both an unrivaled record of historical events and personalities from the nation's founding to the antebellum era and a masterpiece of American self-portraiture, tracing the spiritual, literary, and scientific interests of an exceptionally lively mind. Now, for the 250th anniversary of Adams's birth, Library of America and historian David Waldstreicher present a two-volume reader's edition of diary selections based for the first time on the original manuscripts, restoring personal and revealing passages suppressed in earlier editions. Volume 2 opens with Adams serving as Secretary of State, amid political maneuverings within and outside James Monroe's cabinet to become his successor, a process that culminates in Adams's election to the presidency by the House of Representatives after the deadlocked four-way contest of 1824. Even as Adams takes the oath of office, rivals Henry Clay, his Secretary of State, John C. Calhoun, his vice president, and an embittered Andrew Jackson, eye the election of 1828. The diary records in candid detail his frustration as his far-sighted agenda for national improvement founders on the rocks of internecine political factionalism, conflict that results in his becoming only the second president, with his father, to fail to secure reelection. After a short-lived retirement, Adams returns to public service as a Congressman from Massachusetts, and for the last seventeen years of his life he leads efforts to resist the extension of slavery and to end the notorious "gag rule" that stifles debate on the issue in Congress. In 1841 he further burnishes his reputation as a scourge of the Slave Power by successfully defending African mutineers of the slave ship Amistad before the Supreme Court. The diary achieves perhaps its greatest force in its prescient anticipation of the Civil War and Emancipation, an “object,” as Adams described it during the Missouri Crisis, “vast in its compass, awful in its prospects, sublime and beautiful in its issue.”
Download or read book Orations written by John Quincy Adams and published by . This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) was a diplomat, politician, and the sixth President of the United States (1825-1829). His party affiliations were Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig. Adams was the son of United States President John Adams, and Abigail Adams. He is most famous as a diplomat involved in many international negotiations, and for formulating the Monroe Doctrine. As president he proposed a grand program of modernization and educational advancement, but was unable to get it through Congress. Late in life, as a Congressman, he was a leading opponent of the Slave Power, arguing that if a civil war ever broke out the president could abolish slavery by using his war powers, a policy followed by Abraham Lincoln in the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.
Download or read book John Quincy Adams written by Worthington Chauncey Ford and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule 1835 1850 written by Peter Charles Hoffer and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively narrative intended for history classrooms and anyone interested in abolitionism, slavery, Congress, and the coming of the Civil War, John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–1850, vividly portrays the importance of the political machinations and debates that colored the age.
Download or read book Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams written by John Quincy Adams and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Quincy Adams was born in Frederick County, Virginia in 1845 to slave parents belonging to the prominent Calomese family. Adams and his twin brother were one of four sets born to their mother, who had twenty-five children. Adams' book Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams (1872) was published while he lived in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Much of Adams' narrative contrasts slave and free life, using anecdotes and biblical principles to illustrate the differences. One memorable heartbreaking moment that Adams uses to highlight the evils of slavery occurred in 1857, when his twin brother and another sister were sold away from the family. Fortunately, the family was reunited with John's twin, Aaron, through correspondence, and they met again after the Civil War. Following his narrative, Adams includes excerpts from the United States Constitution, as well as letters of personal recommendation.
Download or read book Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams when in Slavery and Now as a Freeman written by John Quincy Adams and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Abolition of Slavery the Right of the Government Under the War Power written by and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 1861 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Abolition of Slavery written by William Lloyd Garrison and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Abolition of Slavery: The Right of the Government Under the War Power We published, not long ago, an extract from a Speech de livered by John Quincy Adams in Congress in 1842, in which that eminent statesman confidently announced the doctrine, that in a state of war, civil or servile, in the Southern States, Congress has full and plenary power over the whole subject Of slavery; martial law takes the place of civil laws and municipal institutions, slavery among the rest, and not only the President of the United States, but the Commander of the Army, has power to order the universal emancipation of the slaves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Arguing about Slavery written by William Lee Miller and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1998-01-12 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1830s slavery was so deeply entrenched that it could not even be discussed in Congress, which had enacted a "gag rule" to ensure that anti-slavery petitions would be summarily rejected. This stirring book chronicles the parliamentary battle to bring "the peculiar institution" into the national debate, a battle that some historians have called "the Pearl Harbor of the slavery controversy." The campaign to make slavery officially and respectably debatable was waged by John Quincy Adams who spent nine years defying gags, accusations of treason, and assassination threats. In the end he made his case through a combination of cunning and sheer endurance. Telling this story with a brilliant command of detail, Arguing About Slavery endows history with majestic sweep, heroism, and moral weight. "Dramatic, immediate, intensely readable, fascinating and often moving."--New York Times Book Review
Download or read book Speech of John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts Upon the Right of the People Men and Women to Petition on the Freedom of Speech and Debate in the House of Representatives of the United States on the Resolutions of Seven State Legislatures and the Petitions of More Than One Hundred Thousand Petitioners Relating to the Annexation of Texas to this Union written by John Quincy Adams and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
