Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.
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Adams was applied to by one of his friends forminutes of the principal measures of Mr. Monroe's administration, whilehe was Secretary of State, and also of his own, as President of theUnited States, to be used in his defence in a pending election. "Icannot reconcile myself, " said Mr. Adams, "to write anything for my ownelection, not even for the refutation of the basest calumnies. In all myelection contests, therefore, my character is at the mercy of the basestslanderer; and slander is so effe...ctive a power in all our elections, that the friends of the candidates for the highest offices use itwithout scruple. I know by experience the power of party spirit upon thepeople. Party triumphs over party, and the people are all enrolled inone party or another. The people can only act by the machinery ofparty. " About this time there was an attempt in Norfolk County to get up aTemperance Society, and a wish was expressed to him that he would take alead in forming it. He declined from an unwillingness to shackle himselfwith obligations to control his individual, family, and domesticarrangements; from an apprehension that the temperance societies, intheir well-intended zeal, were already manifesting a tendency toencroach on personal freedom; and also from an opinion that the causewas so well sustained by public approbation and applause that it needednot the aid of his special exertions, beyond that of his own example.
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Adams was applied to by one of his friends forminutes of the principal measures of Mr. Monroe's administration, whilehe was Secretary of State, and also of his own, as President of theUnited States, to be used in his defence in a pending election. "Icannot reconcile myself, " said Mr. Adams, "to write anything for my ownelection, not even for the refutation of the basest calumnies. In all myelection contests, therefore, my character is at the mercy of the basestslanderer; and slander is so effe...ctive a power in all our elections, that the friends of the candidates for the highest offices use itwithout scruple. I know by experience the power of party spirit upon thepeople. Party triumphs over party, and the people are all enrolled inone party or another. The people can only act by the machinery ofparty. " About this time there was an attempt in Norfolk County to get up aTemperance Society, and a wish was expressed to him that he would take alead in forming it. He declined from an unwillingness to shackle himselfwith obligations to control his individual, family, and domesticarrangements; from an apprehension that the temperance societies, intheir well-intended zeal, were already manifesting a tendency toencroach on personal freedom; and also from an opinion that the causewas so well sustained by public approbation and applause that it needednot the aid of his special exertions, beyond that of his own example.
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