ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY President . Autograph letter signed ("J.Q. Adams") as Representative for Massachusetts, to Richard Rush former Secretary of Treasury under Adams, Washington, D.C., 17 April 1831. 2 pages, 4to, 250 x 200mm. (10 x 8 in.), slight foxing at left margin , otherwise in fine condition. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS ON BRITISH WHIGS: "THEY ARE UTTERLY INCOMPETENT TO THE TASK OF MANAGING THE PUBLIC AFFAIRS" Former President Adams, now in the House of Representatives, expresses elation over the probable fall of the Whig party in Great Britain in new elections. Adams writes that: "... [A]s much as the Gypsies are the Romancers of Beggary, the Whigs are Romancers of Liberty. What the Gypsies would do with the Country if his Majesty King William the fourth should compose his Cabinet Council of them is not easily imagined, but if they should display as much ignorance of the world, and of their own Country, with as much self-sufficiency and a prosperity to blunder as signal, as the Whigs have done when in power for the last half century, no doubt their Administration would be equally short. Since the commencement of the Reign of George the third, once in ten, fifteen or twenty years the Whigs have obtained possession of the Government, and held it just long enough to demonstrate to the conviction of the Nation that they are utterly incompetent to the task of managing the Public Affairs. Their present experiment does not appear likely to last longer than the age which preceded it... Lord Althorp begins his career by proposing a duty of a penny a pound upon your Cotton from the United States, which may be considered as an indication of the ministerial feeling towards this Country. It would seem... that this step had been taken without previous consultation of the great interests at home to be affected by it; and it remains doubtful whether it will yet be carried into effect. But this great and absorbing interest for the present appears to be concentrated in Lord John Russells Plan of Parliamentary Reform. The retrenchment of nearly two hundred members from the House of Commons... will be in itself so great a Revolution in the British Government, that I can scarcely realize that it will yet be effected. It is a curious spectacle to see a convict for Sedition in Ireland at the same moment seizing the first Rank as the Champion of Reform in the English House of Commons..."
ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY President . Autograph letter signed ("J.Q. Adams") as Representative for Massachusetts, to Richard Rush former Secretary of Treasury under Adams, Washington, D.C., 17 April 1831. 2 pages, 4to, 250 x 200mm. (10 x 8 in.), slight foxing at left margin , otherwise in fine condition. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS ON BRITISH WHIGS: "THEY ARE UTTERLY INCOMPETENT TO THE TASK OF MANAGING THE PUBLIC AFFAIRS" Former President Adams, now in the House of Representatives, expresses elation over the probable fall of the Whig party in Great Britain in new elections. Adams writes that: "... [A]s much as the Gypsies are the Romancers of Beggary, the Whigs are Romancers of Liberty. What the Gypsies would do with the Country if his Majesty King William the fourth should compose his Cabinet Council of them is not easily imagined, but if they should display as much ignorance of the world, and of their own Country, with as much self-sufficiency and a prosperity to blunder as signal, as the Whigs have done when in power for the last half century, no doubt their Administration would be equally short. Since the commencement of the Reign of George the third, once in ten, fifteen or twenty years the Whigs have obtained possession of the Government, and held it just long enough to demonstrate to the conviction of the Nation that they are utterly incompetent to the task of managing the Public Affairs. Their present experiment does not appear likely to last longer than the age which preceded it... Lord Althorp begins his career by proposing a duty of a penny a pound upon your Cotton from the United States, which may be considered as an indication of the ministerial feeling towards this Country. It would seem... that this step had been taken without previous consultation of the great interests at home to be affected by it; and it remains doubtful whether it will yet be carried into effect. But this great and absorbing interest for the present appears to be concentrated in Lord John Russells Plan of Parliamentary Reform. The retrenchment of nearly two hundred members from the House of Commons... will be in itself so great a Revolution in the British Government, that I can scarcely realize that it will yet be effected. It is a curious spectacle to see a convict for Sedition in Ireland at the same moment seizing the first Rank as the Champion of Reform in the English House of Commons..."
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