ADAMS, John Quincy (1767-1848). Autograph letter signed ("J. Q. Adams"), as Congressman, to Lt. T. B. Adams, Washington, 11 February 1831. 1 page, 4to, matted and framed with an engraved portrait of Adams .
ADAMS, John Quincy (1767-1848). Autograph letter signed ("J. Q. Adams"), as Congressman, to Lt. T. B. Adams, Washington, 11 February 1831. 1 page, 4to, matted and framed with an engraved portrait of Adams . A FROZEN CAPITAL, BUT "I AM WITH AS WARM A HEART AS AT MIDSUMMER" "We are in the midst of the severest winter that I ever experienced at Washington," Adams tells his nephew, stationed at Fort Moultrie in Charleston harbor. "This day four weeks since commenced a snow storm which continued for about thirty hours. Two days afterwards the Potowmack river was frozen over, and has so continued to this day. There has been neither rain nor thaw sufficient to carry off the mass of snow, and there has been continual sleighing this day. The Potowmac is now upwards of a foot thick, and Fahrenheit's thermometer one morning at zero has been several times at 5, 8 and 10. From this or some other cause I have had a severe inflammation in the right eye and for several days have been disabled to read or write. Tomorrow we are to have an eclipse, all but total. Your father's letter I suppose will tell you how it has been at Quincy. I am with as warm a heart as at midsummer..." Adams was one year into his remarkable career as a post-presidential Congressman, the only ex-President to ever return to the Congress. Adams's successor, Andrew Jackson was just then embroiled in a stand-off with the States' Rights firebrands in South Carolina over the tariff. Just months earlier, Jackson confronted his own Vice-president, John C. Calhoun, at the infamous Jefferson Day dinner where they hurled barbed toasts at each other: To Jackson's "Our Federal Union--it must be preserved!" Calhoun answered: "The Union--next to our liberty, the most dear!"
ADAMS, John Quincy (1767-1848). Autograph letter signed ("J. Q. Adams"), as Congressman, to Lt. T. B. Adams, Washington, 11 February 1831. 1 page, 4to, matted and framed with an engraved portrait of Adams .
ADAMS, John Quincy (1767-1848). Autograph letter signed ("J. Q. Adams"), as Congressman, to Lt. T. B. Adams, Washington, 11 February 1831. 1 page, 4to, matted and framed with an engraved portrait of Adams . A FROZEN CAPITAL, BUT "I AM WITH AS WARM A HEART AS AT MIDSUMMER" "We are in the midst of the severest winter that I ever experienced at Washington," Adams tells his nephew, stationed at Fort Moultrie in Charleston harbor. "This day four weeks since commenced a snow storm which continued for about thirty hours. Two days afterwards the Potowmack river was frozen over, and has so continued to this day. There has been neither rain nor thaw sufficient to carry off the mass of snow, and there has been continual sleighing this day. The Potowmac is now upwards of a foot thick, and Fahrenheit's thermometer one morning at zero has been several times at 5, 8 and 10. From this or some other cause I have had a severe inflammation in the right eye and for several days have been disabled to read or write. Tomorrow we are to have an eclipse, all but total. Your father's letter I suppose will tell you how it has been at Quincy. I am with as warm a heart as at midsummer..." Adams was one year into his remarkable career as a post-presidential Congressman, the only ex-President to ever return to the Congress. Adams's successor, Andrew Jackson was just then embroiled in a stand-off with the States' Rights firebrands in South Carolina over the tariff. Just months earlier, Jackson confronted his own Vice-president, John C. Calhoun, at the infamous Jefferson Day dinner where they hurled barbed toasts at each other: To Jackson's "Our Federal Union--it must be preserved!" Calhoun answered: "The Union--next to our liberty, the most dear!"
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