Book/Printed Material An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of Quincy, July 4, 1856.
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Image 5 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... |H-«- ^1 AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOLS, AND THE CITIZENS OF QUINCY, X JULY 4, 1856. BY CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS. BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY. Si^H- 185 6.- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 6 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 7 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... An ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOLS, THE CITIZENS OF QUINCY, JULY 4,1856. BY CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, \%ov^%%^. BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY 185 6,- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 8 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... QuiNCY, July 23, 1856. At a meeting of the School Committee, Voted^ that the Chairman pre- sent the thanks of the Committee to the Hon. Charles F. Adams, for the very able...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 9 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... ADDRESS. My young Friends Late as was the notice of this celebration, I felt as if I could not decline to take the part in it assigned to me, if I might...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 10 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... same, they are all equally susceptible of resolution if subjected to the test of principles upon which time has set the seal of truth. You, my young friends, are yet on the...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 11 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... circumstances such as had never before united to bless any occupant of his throne. He was young, having just attained the lawful age, and he had with him the prepossessions natural to...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 12 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... 6 people. It seemed in his case, as if the most vivid fancy of an oriental imagination had been exceeded by the reality, and as if naught were necessary be- yond the...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 13 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... 1 fill for the blessings that had fallen to their share, and willing- to award a full measure of their thanks to him under whose guardianship their prosperity had been established. Such...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 14 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... dices of his chosen agents. A statesman, short-sighted, formal, and exclusive in spirit, had infused into the new policy of the reign, the essence of a despotic system, and, as with the...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 15 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... project which had not even novelty for its recommen- dation for the experienced eye of Sir Robert Wal- pole, had long before detected the danger, the fear of which led him very...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 16 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... 10 by relieving them of a certain proportion of the bur- dens pressing on their own property. Of the abstract justice of such a plan, or of the extent to which it...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 17 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... 11 the mighty Ee volution, the fruits of which are, even after the lapse of ninety years, yet produced only in small measure, comparatively with those promised in futurity. Grenville had shaken...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 18 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... 12 propose it, precipitately pledged himself to renew the claim, a pledge which he soon afterwards redeemed, by suggesting the memorable tax on tea. There are lessons in this story, which it...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 19 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... 13 or inadvertence, and no palliation of good intention can be received for the commission of enormous mis- takes. Especially is this the case where the primary motive does not seem adequate...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 20 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... 14 lutions nay, even some petitions, such as actually came in course of time, and were very summarily thrown under the Parliamentary table; but that this would all blow over, and that...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 21 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... 15 Neither was it only from their experience of the class with which they had directly to deal, that they formed such an opinion. They could not fail to be more or...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 22 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... 16 Neither were they confined to any particular grade of public service. There were instruments of all kinds. And one of these immortalized his infamy by resorting to that outrageous assault upon...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 23 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... 17 was another great drawback on their efforts. The peo- ple were separated into thirteen commimities, distinct from each other in government, in habits, in manners, and in their forms of rehgious...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 24 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... 18 ample of, as a warning to the other colonies. Towards New York and Pennsylvania a different policy was adopted, having the aspect of conciliation, bat really intended the more certainly to...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 25 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... 19 My young Friends, I do not propose to fatigue 3 ou by following out this narrative more minutely. My design has been to show you, first, that your fathers were no...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 26 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... •20 an experienced chief. Rushing in as they did from all quarters, many of them from the neighboring colonies, they recognized no common leader and coming for the most part voluntarily, they...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 27 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... 21 greater skill, equal integrity, and established reputation, whose accession to the command would at once give an earnest of victory. In point of fact, there was no such person. Yet Massachusetts...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 28 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... 22 with others, but these labors have the effect of chilling instead of warming my admiration. If Washington was perfect, then is there nothing in common between him and any of us...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 29 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... 23 it. Perhaps this very day and this very hour may sug- gest to us that a second Washington would not be un- welcome to restore to us something of the purity...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 30 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... 24 temper of their rulers from beyond the water. It was this which at last impelled them against their will to cement the connection of the colonies under the ral- lying cry...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 31 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... 25 all that was to be gained by it. But Massachusetts or Virginia could have gained that, and yet would not have been estopped from instituting within her borders any form of...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 32 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... 26 rights of every subject. Never was there a more mag- nificent expansion of a noble cause. Hence it is that from the outset the author seems to have forgotten the factitious...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 33 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... 27 common dangers. Above all it was a union in the nature of a joint pledge before the world that the wrongs of which its members complained at the hands of the...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 34 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... 28 right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to insti- tute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 35 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... 29 a century .ago would show a much more rapid progress all over the world than most persons are apt to imag- ine. Yet it must be confessed that a great deal...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 36 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... 30 of America has been purified of much that was not in harmony with the new dispensation. The laws of pri- mogeniture, those of entail, proprietary rights in some States and feudal...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 37 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... 31 that in the end the United States may become that example of a great free nation to the rest of man- kind which its founders most ardently hoped that it might...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 38 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... 32 ures having for their object the establishment of a tyranny over this people, how much more is it the duty of all of you to watch unceasingly that no similar attempt,...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 39 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ... 33 Atlantic to the Pacific shore, and that you were born a free people. Beware of evil advisers who countenance the doctrines that may leave you slaves in age. Keep fast hold...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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Image 40 of An address delivered before the members of the schools, and the citizens of ...- Contributor: Adams, Charles Francis
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