John Quincy Adams 2
Good evening everyone. I, Louisa Adams, wife of John Quincy Adams, will be your spiritual guide on this rainy December night to tell you about my late husband and all of his endeavors. My dear John was a wonderful man and I truly am a fortunate woman to have had him for a husband. My dear John was born on July 11, 1767 in Braintree Massachusetts. I believe that now you call it Quincy Massachusetts. He had an older sister, but was the eldest son of his John Adams, his father, and Abigail Smith Adams, his mother. As you probably already know, his father became the second president of the United States in 1797, so my dear John was born into a political family. From what I can recall, John spent many years of his childhood in Europe and studied mainly with tutors, but at one point he did attend an actual school in France and the Netherlands. He was never very sociable with children of his own age, and preferred to mingle with the other diplomats. In 1783 my dear John was summoned by his father to go to Paris. There he witnessed the signing of the treaty that ended the American Revolution. It was then that my dear John began keeping a diary. He continued to write in it from that day to the last day of his lif
My dear John returned to the United States to study at Harvard College. He graduated two years later, he really was a very studious man. He started his own law practice in 1790 but he never really enjoyed practicing law and he soon gave it up to become involved in important public matters. Now if I do say so myself that is one mighty long list, but my dear John had the shoes to fill the position for each and every one them. He was such a dedicated and devoted man, and he never did let me down. Late in 1846, my dear John suffered a stroke. He recovered enough to resume his seat in Congress a few months later. One year afterward, on February 21, 1848, he responded to a roll call of his name in the House chambers, then fell forward on his desk. It was a second stroke. He was carried to the Speaker's room in the Capitol. There, two days later, my dear John died. An anonymous author, using the pen name Publicola, published a series of articles in a Boston newspaper that were reprinted and read throughout the nation. The articles offered a closely reasoned and brilliant defense of Washington's policy and concluded with these words: "It is our duty to remain, the peaceable and silent, though sorrowful spectators of the sanguinary scene." The president soon discovered that my dear John, John Quincy Adams had written the articles. I married my
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