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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Ex-President John Quincy Adams in Pittsburgh + Address of Welcome, by Wilson McCandless, and Mr. Adams + Reply; together with a letter from Mr. Adams Relative to + Judge Brackenridge's "Modern Chivalry." + +Author: Wilson McCandless + John Quincy Adams + +Release Date: February 17, 2012 [EBook #38906] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOHN QUINCY ADAMS IN PITTSBURGH *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Ernest Schaal, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + + + + + Ex-President John Quincy Adams + in Pittsburgh in 1843. + + + ADDRESS OF WELCOME, + + BY + WILSON McCANDLESS, + + AND + + MR. ADAMS' REPLY; + + TOGETHER WITH + + A LETTER FROM MR. ADAMS RELATIVE TO JUDGE + BRACKENRIDGE'S "MODERN CHIVALRY." + + + PUBLISHED BY REQUEST. + + + PITTSBURGH: + PRINTED BY BAKEWELL & MARTHENS, 71 GRANT STREET. + 1873. + + + + + ADDRESS OF WELCOME. + + +MR. ADAMS: + +I have been deputed by my fellow-citizens, of _all parties_, to bid you +a hearty welcome to this city. I have been directed, Sir, to tender to +you the hospitalities of the people, and of the corporate authorities of +this, and of our young, but flourishing, sister of Allegheny. + +We have not strewed flowers in your path, nor erected triumphal arches +at your approach, but greet you with the homage of grateful hearts, as +evinced in this spontaneous outpouring of the people. Here, Sir, is the +token of that universal regard in which you are held by the free +citizens of this great country. And here, Sir, you have the reward for a +long life of meritorious public service. + +What can be more endearing to the heart of the patriot, than this +exhibition of public sentiment; than this manifestation of love for your +person, and admiration for your exalted talents and virtues. Like the +son of Marcus Cato, you have been a foe to tyrants, and your country's +friend, and that country now tenders to you the tribute of her affection +and gratitude. + +You seem, Sir, "like the aged oak, standing alone on the plain, which +time has spared a little longer, after all its cotemporaries have been +levelled with the dust," but the people delight to gather round the +venerable trunk, and dwell beneath the shadow of its yet green foliage. + +Associated as you have been with the FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY, partaking +largely of his confidence, and deeply imbued with the lofty patriotism +of his character, it must be gratifying to you, to visit this, the +theatre of his earliest achievements. + +Here, standing on the portals of the Mississippi valley, his prophetic +eye reaching far into futurity, he saw the materials for that great +empire, with its teeming millions, that now revere and venerate his +name. Here it was that Providence thrice spared his invaluable life. +Once, on the Venango path, when the rifle of the warrior flashed in the +pan. Again, when his frail raft gave way, and he was precipitated amid +ice and snow, and the raging of the elements, into the rapid waters of +the Allegheny. And again, on the shores of the Monongahela, when +Braddock, and Halket, and Peyronney fell, by the deadly aim of the +French and Indians. Two horses shot under him, his clothes perforated +with bullets, himself a bright and shining mark, yet the leaden +messengers were turned aside by an invisible Hand, and he was saved to +lead the armies of his country to victory, and to lay deep that precious +corner-stone of civil polity, that has no parallel in the history of the +world. + +Here it was that in the wigwams, and partaking of the hospitality of +King Shingiss and Queen Allaquippa, his heart imbibed that warm and +active benevolence for the sons of the forest, that was so conspicuous +in his subsequent administration of the government. + +Here it was that the influence of his great NAME suppressed an +insurrection that threatened to sap the foundation of our beautiful +political edifice. And here, Sir, he has a monument in the affection of +his countrymen more durable than brass or marble, and which will remain +steadfast, as long as the rippling current of the Ohio flows on to the +bosom of the Father of waters. + +In 1798, the first armed vessel that ever floated on the western waters +was constructed here under the direction of a Revolutionary officer. She +was a row-galley, mounting a solitary gun, and was intended to protect +our infant trade with that splendid domain afterwards acquired to the +Union by the wisdom and foresight of your illustrious friend and +cotemporary, MR. JEFFERSON. + +The name of that vessel was the JOHN ADAMS, And, if tradition is to be +credited, after performing duty here, she hoisted sails, entered the +peaceful pursuits of commerce, crossed the Atlantic, passed the straits +of Gibraltar, wended her way up the Mediterranean, threaded the +Archipelago, and penetrated to the Dardanelles on the borders of Asia +Minor; thus carrying on her prow into the very bosom of a despotic +country, the name of one of the honored actors in the great struggle for +Republican liberty. + +Look at the contrast now! Instead of the barge, and the row-galley, our +skilful mechanics in 1843 completed, on the very bastions of old Fort +Duquesne, an iron ship of war that is to carry on the Northern Lakes the +stars and stripes of our beloved country--and a frigate is now in +progress of construction, which with her "_iron sides_," is destined to +defend the honor of the American name "in every sea under the whole +heavens." + +When your venerated Sire, with burning zeal, proclaimed independence +_now_, independence _forever_; when, with heroic and inflexible +resolution, he signed his name to the great charter of our liberty, the +place on which you now stand was a barren and unproductive forest. Now, + + "As the swollen column of ascending smoke," + +so swells her grandeur. From a thousand chimneys are emitted the living +evidences of her prosperity. The flaming fire, the busy hammer, the +revolving roller, all give daily, hourly proof of her rapid advancement. +Here the rough misshapen elements of nature are formed and moulded to +suit the purposes of man. Here machines to mitigate the toil of the +laborer, and to facilitate intercourse between the States, are made with +a skill unsurpassed even by the old world. Here the anchor is forged to +give security and protection to the weather-beaten mariner. Here the +shovel and the mattock, the plough and the harrow, go forth to ease the +labors of the husbandman. And here the naked are clothed and the hungry +fed, by the evolution of machinery "and the potent agency of steam." + +To what are we indebted for all these blessings? Since the war of the +Revolution, to that wise TARIFF policy by which you were regulated when +at the head of the government, and as chairman of the Committee on +Manufactures in the Congress of the United States. No base subserviency +to Foreign Powers dictated your course, but a manly and determined +support of the true interests of the country, by the protection of its +industry, and by a proper reciprocity of countervailing restrictions. + +We thank you, Sir--we thank you with the truest friendship and the +deepest sincerity. + +We honor you for the lustre you have shed on all the high places it has +been your good fortune to occupy--we praise you for that sublimest +virtue which shines in all your actions--we see in your brow that +undaunted valor which renders you inexorably firm in the discharge of +all your public duties, and in your eye "that inextinguishable spark, +that fires the souls of patriots." + +Great and good Citizen! Venerable and Venerated Man! Panegyric or +Eulogy, now, or hereafter, cannot add one cubit to your stature. Live +on--live on, in honor and in glory--and when "this corruptible _does_ +put on incorruption, and this mortal, immortality," I pray God that it +may be in the calm serenity of that summer's evening, when bonfires and +illuminations light up the land, in commemoration of that glorious +INDEPENDENCE, to the achievement of which your illustrious FATHER so +largely, so eminently contributed. + + + + + MR. ADAMS' REPLY. + + +FELLOW-CITIZENS: + +Before I attempt to address you, and to respond to the eloquent +discourse pronounced under circumstances so unauspicious to eloquence, I +must apologize for my appearance before you. + +I had expected to have had the honor of meeting you on this day and at +this time; and arrangements were made to render it convenient to +yourselves, but it so happened that the bark on which we had taken our +passage, as if anxious to arrive at the end of her voyage, and partaking +of my feelings, arrived before the time, when your preparations to +receive me were not completed. My appearance was, therefore, accidental +and unexpected, and as my apology, I would remind you of the saying of +the great Poet of Nature, Shakespeare, who says: + + "Lovers break not hours, + Except it be to come before their time." + +If the lover is privileged to "break hours" and "come before his time," +I trust you will accept it as my excuse, and impute it to the ardor of a +lover desiring to see the beloved of his soul. + +Fellow citizens! I had motives of the most cogent nature to inspire me +with that feeling, in times past--I trust forever--when my position was +anything but what I find it now--at a time when I was in a position of +difficulty and danger, I had the gratification to receive testimonials +of regard, respect and sympathy from the citizens of Pittsburgh, beyond +what I received from any other portion of the United States, my own +constituents and the city of Rochester alone excepted. I shall always +entertain a feeling of gratitude, belonging to the nature of man, +towards the citizens of Pittsburgh, for their attention and sympathy on +that trying occasion. I had never flattered myself with the expectation +or hope that it should be in my power to personally return them those +thanks which were due; but they were indelibly impressed upon my +heart--and it is owing rather to accidental circumstances that I now +enjoy that satisfaction. + +During the last summer, I received an invitation to visit a western +city, to perform an act solely connected with the promotion of science, +and totally separated from politics--I came for the purpose of lending +my aid to an object for the advancement and promotion of the happiness +of man on earth--for the advancement of knowledge, for which I hope all +parties are equally zealous--the laying of the corner-stone for an +Astronomical Observatory at Cincinnati. I accepted it, and scarcely had +it become publicly known, till I saw in the public papers a call from +some of my personal friends in this city, to visit and be received by +them on my way to or from the point of my destination. This reached my +ears as coming from personal friends; by personal friends I mean those +who, during a long life, have approved of my political course and +actions. Of personal friends, strictly speaking, I have but few among +your number--there are few in your city with whom I have had the honor +of a personal acquaintance. For this expression of confidence and this +invitation, I felt that gratitude was due from me. + +But scarcely was that invitation consummated till a still more +comprehensive one, from the citizens of all the political parties, was +given to me. This was an honor which has never been extended to me +before, and I am not aware that it has been to any other--it forms an +epoch in our history's history, and if in any thing I can foresee the +voice of posterity, it is in that! + +In compliance with these invitations, and particularly the last, I now +appear before you. I had intended to advert to some topics of general +interest, and to the principles which have governed my course of conduct +heretofore, but leaving them to the judgment of all, and avoiding any +thing calculated to offend any;--but time will not allow, and the +circumstances are such that I cannot think of detaining you here. I must +therefore request you simply to receive the effusions of gratitude from +my breast, applied to each and every one of you. I hope you will +consider those remarks which I intended to have made, as indicative of +the desire which I felt to repay you in some manner for your attentions +towards me; and I trust that the blessings of a bounteous Providence may +rest upon you individually, and that the almighty Ruler of the Universe +may render your course, as a community, glorious and happy hereafter, as +it has been honorable heretofore! + + + + + CORRESPONDENCE. + + + PITTSBURGH, March 29, 1847. + HON. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, + _Washington City, D. C._, + +DEAR SIR: A day or two after I had the honor of addressing you at the +instance of the citizens of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, I met you at the +hospitable table of Col. Robinson. To me, and to all around, the +conversation was most entertaining. All the leading incidents connected +with the history of Western Pennsylvania, from the Whiskey Insurrection +down, seemed to be as familiar to you as to any native to the "manor +born." I recollect well your inquiries relating to the honored widow of +the author of "Modern Chivalry," and how animated you were in speaking +of Captain Farrago and Teague O'Regan. Cervantes would have laughed and +rejoiced at your association of these western heroes with his own, and +the author felt complimented with your favorable criticism of a work +which he never expected to reach a second edition. + +Perusing a reprint of the work this evening, it occurred to me that you +might be amused in reading it, and I have therefore taken the liberty of +enclosing it. + +Trusting that your health is much improved and that it will continue so, + + I have the honor to be, + with the most profound regard, + your obedient servant, + WILSON MCCANDLESS. + + + + + WASHINGTON, 1st April, 1847. + WILSON MCCANDLESS, ESQ., + _Pittsburgh_, _Pennsylvania_. + +DEAR SIR: I cannot lose a moment before acknowledging the receipt of +your letter of the 29th ult., and of the valuable present which +accompanies it--the two volumes of the new edition of Judge H. H. +Brackenridge's "Modern Chivalry, or the Adventures of Captain Farrago +and Teague O'Regan." My visit to Pittsburgh in 1843, and my intercourse +with yourself, with the citizens of that place and Allegheny, at that +time, afford me some of the most pleasing recollections of my life, +grateful recollections of my obligations to yourself and them. + +I had read the first part of Modern Chivalry and formed a pleasant +acquaintance with Captain Farrago and his man Teague, at their first +appearance more than half a century since, and they had then excited +much of my attention as illustrations of life and manners peculiar to +the times and localities, not entirely effaced when I became more +familiarly acquainted with them, by this visit to the latter. + +Captain Farrago and Teague O'Regan are legitimate descendants, on one +side from the La Mancha and his squire Sancho, on the other, from Sir +Hudibras and his man Ralph, and if not primitive conceptions themselves, +are at least as lineal in their descent as the pious Æneas from the +impetuous and vindictive son of Pelias. + +The reappearance of this work, as a second edition, since the author's +death, more than half a century after its first publication, well +warrants the prediction that it will last beyond the period fixed by the +ancient statutes, for the canonization of poets, a full century. I shall +read it over again, I have no doubt, with a refreshing revival of the +pleasure with which I greeted it on its first appearance; and if this +expression of my opinion can give any satisfaction to the remaining +relatives of Judge Brackenridge, or to yourself, it is entirely at your +disposal, being with a vivid sense and grateful remembrance of your +kindness, and that of my fellow-citizens of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, + + Your friend and obedient servant, + J. Q. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Ex-President John Quincy Adams in Pittsburgh + Address of Welcome, by Wilson McCandless, and Mr. Adams + Reply; together with a letter from Mr. Adams Relative to + Judge Brackenridge's "Modern Chivalry." + +Author: Wilson McCandless + John Quincy Adams + +Release Date: February 17, 2012 [EBook #38906] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOHN QUINCY ADAMS IN PITTSBURGH *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Ernest Schaal, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 502px;"> <img class="border" src="images/cover.png" width="502" height="700" alt="Ex-President John Quincy Adams +in Pittsburgh in 1843. + +ADDRESS OF WELCOME, + +BY +WILSON McCANDLESS, + +AND + +MR. ADAMS' REPLY; + +TOGETHER WITH + +A LETTER FROM MR. ADAMS RELATIVE TO JUDGE +BRACKENRIDGE'S "MODERN CHIVALRY + +PUBLISHED BY REQUEST. + +PITTSBURGH: +Printed by Bakewell & Marthens, 71 Grant Street. +1873." title="Ex-President John Quincy Adams +in Pittsburgh in 1843. + +ADDRESS OF WELCOME, + +BY +WILSON McCANDLESS, + +AND + +MR. ADAMS' REPLY; + +TOGETHER WITH + +A LETTER FROM MR. ADAMS RELATIVE TO JUDGE +BRACKENRIDGE'S "MODERN CHIVALRY + +PUBLISHED BY REQUEST. + +PITTSBURGH: +Printed by Bakewell & Marthens, 71 Grant Street. +1873." /> +</div> + +<hr class="hr2" /> + +<h2>ADDRESS OF WELCOME.</h2> + +<hr /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Mr. Adams</span>:</p> + +<p class="indent">I have been deputed by my fellow-citizens, +of <i>all parties</i>, to bid you a hearty welcome to this +city. I have been directed, Sir, to tender to you the +hospitalities of the people, and of the corporate +authorities of this, and of our young, but flourishing, +sister of Allegheny.</p> + +<p class="indent">We have not strewed flowers in your path, nor +erected triumphal arches at your approach, but greet +you with the homage of grateful hearts, as evinced in +this spontaneous outpouring of the people. Here, +Sir, is the token of that universal regard in which +you are held by the free citizens of this great country. +And here, Sir, you have the reward for a long life of +meritorious public service.</p> + +<p class="indent">What can be more endearing to the heart of the +patriot, than this exhibition of public sentiment; +than this manifestation of love for your person, and +admiration for your exalted talents and virtues. Like +the son of Marcus Cato, you have been a foe to tyrants, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page04" id="page04"></a>[pg 4]</span> +and your country's friend, and that country +now tenders to you the tribute of her affection and +gratitude.</p> + +<p class="indent">You seem, Sir, "like the aged oak, standing alone +on the plain, which time has spared a little longer, +after all its cotemporaries have been levelled with +the dust," but the people delight to gather round the +venerable trunk, and dwell beneath the shadow of its +yet green foliage.</p> + +<p class="indent">Associated as you have been with the <span class="smcap">Father of +his Country</span>, partaking largely of his confidence, and +deeply imbued with the lofty patriotism of his character, +it must be gratifying to you, to visit this, the +theatre of his earliest achievements.</p> + +<p class="indent">Here, standing on the portals of the Mississippi +valley, his prophetic eye reaching far into futurity, +he saw the materials for that great empire, with its +teeming millions, that now revere and venerate his +name. Here it was that Providence thrice spared +his invaluable life. Once, on the Venango path, +when the rifle of the warrior flashed in the pan. +Again, when his frail raft gave way, and he was precipitated +amid ice and snow, and the raging of +the elements, into the rapid waters of the Allegheny. +And again, on the shores of the Monongahela, +when Braddock, and Halket, and Peyronney +fell, by the deadly aim of the French and Indians. +Two horses shot under him, his clothes perforated +with bullets, himself a bright and shining mark, yet +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page05" id="page05"></a>[pg 5]</span> +the leaden messengers were turned aside by an invisible +Hand, and he was saved to lead the armies of his +country to victory, and to lay deep that precious +corner-stone of civil polity, that has no parallel in the +history of the world.</p> + +<p class="indent">Here it was that in the wigwams, and partaking of +the hospitality of King Shingiss and Queen Allaquippa, +his heart imbibed that warm and active +benevolence for the sons of the forest, that was +so conspicuous in his subsequent administration of +the government.</p> + +<p class="indent">Here it was that the influence of his great <span class="smcap">name</span> +suppressed an insurrection that threatened to sap the +foundation of our beautiful political edifice. And +here, Sir, he has a monument in the affection of his +countrymen more durable than brass or marble, and +which will remain steadfast, as long as the rippling +current of the Ohio flows on to the bosom of the +Father of waters.</p> + +<p class="indent">In 1798, the first armed vessel that ever floated on +the western waters was constructed here under the +direction of a Revolutionary officer. She was a row-galley, +mounting a solitary gun, and was intended to +protect our infant trade with that splendid domain +afterwards acquired to the Union by the wisdom +and foresight of your illustrious friend and cotemporary, +<span class="smcap">Mr. Jefferson</span>.</p> + +<p class="indent">The name of that vessel was the <span class="smcap">John Adams</span>, +And, if tradition is to be credited, after performing +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page06" id="page06"></a>[pg 6]</span> +duty here, she hoisted sails, entered the peaceful pursuits +of commerce, crossed the Atlantic, passed the +straits of Gibraltar, wended her way up the Mediterranean, +threaded the Archipelago, and penetrated +to the Dardanelles on the borders of Asia Minor; +thus carrying on her prow into the very bosom of a +despotic country, the name of one of the honored +actors in the great struggle for Republican liberty.</p> + +<p class="indent">Look at the contrast now! Instead of the barge, +and the row-galley, our skilful mechanics in 1843 +completed, on the very bastions of old Fort Duquesne, +an iron ship of war that is to carry on the Northern +Lakes the stars and stripes of our beloved country—and +a frigate is now in progress of construction, +which with her "<i>iron sides</i>," is destined to defend the +honor of the American name "in every sea under the +whole heavens."</p> + +<p class="indent">When your venerated Sire, with burning zeal, proclaimed +independence <i>now</i>, independence <i>forever</i>; +when, with heroic and inflexible resolution, he signed +his name to the great charter of our liberty, the place +on which you now stand was a barren and unproductive +forest. Now,</p> + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<span class="i4">"As the swollen column of ascending smoke,"</span> +</div> +</div> + +<p>so swells her grandeur. From a thousand chimneys +are emitted the living evidences of her prosperity. +The flaming fire, the busy hammer, the revolving +roller, all give daily, hourly proof of her rapid advancement. +Here the rough misshapen elements of +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page07" id="page07"></a>[pg 7]</span> +nature are formed and moulded to suit the purposes +of man. Here machines to mitigate the toil of the +laborer, and to facilitate intercourse between the +States, are made with a skill unsurpassed even by the +old world. Here the anchor is forged to give security +and protection to the weather-beaten mariner. +Here the shovel and the mattock, the plough and the +harrow, go forth to ease the labors of the husbandman. +And here the naked are clothed and the +hungry fed, by the evolution of machinery "and the +potent agency of steam."</p> + +<p class="indent">To what are we indebted for all these blessings? +Since the war of the Revolution, to that wise <span class="smcap">TARIFF</span> +policy by which you were regulated when at the head +of the government, and as chairman of the Committee +on Manufactures in the Congress of the United +States. No base subserviency to Foreign Powers dictated +your course, but a manly and determined support +of the true interests of the country, by the protection +of its industry, and by a proper reciprocity +of countervailing restrictions.</p> + +<p class="indent">We thank you, Sir—we thank you with the truest +friendship and the deepest sincerity.</p> + +<p class="indent">We honor you for the lustre you have shed on all +the high places it has been your good fortune to +occupy—we praise you for that sublimest virtue which +shines in all your actions—we see in your brow that +undaunted valor which renders you inexorably firm in +the discharge of all your public duties, and in your +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page08" id="page08"></a>[pg 8]</span> +eye "that inextinguishable spark, that fires the souls +of patriots."</p> + +<p class="indent">Great and good Citizen! Venerable and Venerated +Man! Panegyric or Eulogy, now, or hereafter, +cannot add one cubit to your stature. Live on—live +on, in honor and in glory—and when "this corruptible +<i>does</i> put on incorruption, and this mortal, +immortality," I pray God that it may be in the calm +serenity of that summer's evening, when bonfires and +illuminations light up the land, in commemoration of +that glorious <span class="smcap">INDEPENDENCE</span>, to the achievement of +which your illustrious <span class="smcap">FATHER</span> so largely, so eminently +contributed.</p> + +<hr class="hr2" /> + +<h2>MR. ADAMS' REPLY.</h2> + +<p><span class="smcap">Fellow-Citizens</span>:</p> + +<p class="indent">Before I attempt to address you, and to +respond to the eloquent discourse pronounced under +circumstances so unauspicious to eloquence, I must +apologize for my appearance before you.</p> + +<p class="indent">I had expected to have had the honor of meeting +you on this day and at this time; and arrangements +were made to render it convenient to yourselves, but +it so happened that the bark on which we had taken +our passage, as if anxious to arrive at the end of her +voyage, and partaking of my feelings, arrived before +the time, when your preparations to receive me were +not completed. My appearance was, therefore, accidental +and unexpected, and as my apology, I would +remind you of the saying of the great Poet of Nature, +Shakespeare, who says:</p> + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<span class="i4">"Lovers break not hours,</span><br /> +<span class="i2">Except it be to come before their time."</span> +</div> +</div> + +<p class="indent">If the lover is privileged to "break hours" and +"come before his time," I trust you will accept it as +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page10" id="page10"></a>[pg 10]</span> +my excuse, and impute it to the ardor of a lover +desiring to see the beloved of his soul.</p> + +<p class="indent">Fellow citizens! I had motives of the most cogent +nature to inspire me with that feeling, in times past—I +trust forever—when my position was anything +but what I find it now—at a time when I was in a +position of difficulty and danger, I had the gratification +to receive testimonials of regard, respect and +sympathy from the citizens of Pittsburgh, beyond +what I received from any other portion of the United +States, my own constituents and the city of Rochester +alone excepted. I shall always entertain a feeling +of gratitude, belonging to the nature of man, +towards the citizens of Pittsburgh, for their attention +and sympathy on that trying occasion. I had never +flattered myself with the expectation or hope that it +should be in my power to personally return them +those thanks which were due; but they were indelibly +impressed upon my heart—and it is owing +rather to accidental circumstances that I now enjoy +that satisfaction.</p> + +<p class="indent">During the last summer, I received an invitation +to visit a western city, to perform an act solely connected +with the promotion of science, and totally +separated from politics—I came for the purpose of +lending my aid to an object for the advancement and +promotion of the happiness of man on earth—for the +advancement of knowledge, for which I hope all parties +are equally zealous—the laying of the corner-stone +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page11" id="page11"></a>[pg 11]</span> +for an Astronomical Observatory at Cincinnati. I accepted +it, and scarcely had it become publicly known, +till I saw in the public papers a call from some of my +personal friends in this city, to visit and be received +by them on my way to or from the point of my destination. +This reached my ears as coming from personal +friends; by personal friends I mean those who, during +a long life, have approved of my political course +and actions. Of personal friends, strictly speaking, +I have but few among your number—there are few +in your city with whom I have had the honor of a +personal acquaintance. For this expression of confidence +and this invitation, I felt that gratitude was +due from me.</p> + +<p class="indent">But scarcely was that invitation consummated till +a still more comprehensive one, from the citizens of +all the political parties, was given to me. This was +an honor which has never been extended to me before, +and I am not aware that it has been to any +other—it forms an epoch in our history's history, +and if in any thing I can foresee the voice of posterity, +it is in that!</p> + +<p class="indent">In compliance with these invitations, and particularly +the last, I now appear before you. I had intended +to advert to some topics of general interest, +and to the principles which have governed my +course of conduct heretofore, but leaving them to the +judgment of all, and avoiding any thing calculated +to offend any;—but time will not allow, and the circumstances +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page12" id="page12"></a>[pg 12]</span> +are such that I cannot think of detaining +you here. I must therefore request you simply +to receive the effusions of gratitude from my breast, +applied to each and every one of you. I hope you +will consider those remarks which I intended to have +made, as indicative of the desire which I felt to repay +you in some manner for your attentions towards +me; and I trust that the blessings of a bounteous +Providence may rest upon you individually, and that +the almighty Ruler of the Universe may render +your course, as a community, glorious and happy +hereafter, as it has been honorable heretofore!</p> + +<hr class="hr2" /> + +<h2>CORRESPONDENCE.</h2> + +<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Pittsburgh</span>, March 29, 1847.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Hon. John Quincy Adams</span>,</p> + +<p class="center"><i>Washington City, D. C.</i>,</p> + +<p class="indent"><span class="smcap">Dear Sir</span>: A day or two after I had the honor of +addressing you at the instance of the citizens of +Pittsburgh and Allegheny, I met you at the hospitable +table of Col. Robinson. To me, and to all +around, the conversation was most entertaining. All +the leading incidents connected with the history of +Western Pennsylvania, from the Whiskey Insurrection +down, seemed to be as familiar to you as to any +native to the "manor born." I recollect well your +inquiries relating to the honored widow of the author +of "Modern Chivalry," and how animated you were +in speaking of Captain Farrago and Teague O'Regan. +Cervantes would have laughed and rejoiced at +your association of these western heroes with his +own, and the author felt complimented with your +favorable criticism of a work which he never expected +to reach a second edition.</p> + +<p class="indent">Perusing a reprint of the work this evening, it +occurred to me that you might be amused in reading +<span class="pagenum"><a name="page14" id="page14"></a>[pg 14]</span> +it, and I have therefore taken the liberty of enclosing +it.</p> + +<p class="indent">Trusting that your health is much improved and +that it will continue so,</p> + +<div class="poem"> +<div class="stanza"> +<span class="i2">I have the honor to be,</span><br /> +<span class="i0">with the most profound regard,</span><br /> +<span class="i4">your obedient servant,</span><br /> +<span class="i4">WILSON McCANDLESS</span> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="hr2" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page15" id="page15"></a>[pg 15]</span></p> + +<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Washington</span>, 1st April, 1847.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Wilson McCandless, Esq.</span>,</p> + +<p class="center"><i>Pittsburgh</i>, <i>Pennsylvania</i>.</p> + +<p class="indent"><span class="smcap">Dear Sir</span>: I cannot lose a moment before acknowledging +the receipt of your letter of the 29th +ult., and of the valuable present which accompanies +it—the two volumes of the new edition of Judge H. +H. Brackenridge's "Modern Chivalry, or the Adventures +of Captain Farrago and Teague O'Regan." +My visit to Pittsburgh in 1843, and my intercourse +with yourself, with the citizens of that place and +Allegheny, at that time, afford me some of the most +pleasing recollections of my life, grateful recollections +of my obligations to yourself and them.</p> + +<p class="indent">I had read the first part of Modern Chivalry and +formed a pleasant acquaintance with Captain Farrago +and his man Teague, at their first appearance +more than half a century since, and they had then +excited much of my attention as illustrations of life +and manners peculiar to the times and localities, not +entirely effaced when I became more familiarly acquainted +with them, by this visit to the latter.</p> + +<p class="indent">Captain Farrago and Teague O'Regan are legitimate +descendants, on one side from the La Mancha +and his squire Sancho, on the other, from Sir Hudibras +and his man Ralph, and if not primitive conceptions +themselves, are at least as lineal in their +descent as the pious Æneas from the impetuous and +vindictive son of Pelias.</p> + +<p class="indent"><span class="pagenum"><a name="page16" id="page16"></a>[pg 16]</span> +The reappearance of this work, as a second edition, +since the author's death, more than half a century +after its first publication, well warrants the prediction +that it will last beyond the period fixed by the +ancient statutes, for the canonization of poets, a full +century. I shall read it over again, I have no doubt, +with a refreshing revival of the pleasure with which +I greeted it on its first appearance; and if this expression +of my opinion can give any satisfaction to +the remaining relatives of Judge Brackenridge, or +to yourself, it is entirely at your disposal, being +with a vivid sense and grateful remembrance of your +kindness, and that of my fellow-citizens of Pittsburgh +and Allegheny,</p> + +<p class="right">Your friend and obedient servant,</p> + +<p class="right">J. Q. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Ex-President John Quincy Adams in Pittsburgh + Address of Welcome, by Wilson McCandless, and Mr. Adams + Reply; together with a letter from Mr. Adams Relative to + Judge Brackenridge's "Modern Chivalry." + +Author: Wilson McCandless + John Quincy Adams + +Release Date: February 17, 2012 [EBook #38906] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOHN QUINCY ADAMS IN PITTSBURGH *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Ernest Schaal, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + + + + + Ex-President John Quincy Adams + in Pittsburgh in 1843. + + + ADDRESS OF WELCOME, + + BY + WILSON McCANDLESS, + + AND + + MR. ADAMS' REPLY; + + TOGETHER WITH + + A LETTER FROM MR. ADAMS RELATIVE TO JUDGE + BRACKENRIDGE'S "MODERN CHIVALRY." + + + PUBLISHED BY REQUEST. + + + PITTSBURGH: + PRINTED BY BAKEWELL & MARTHENS, 71 GRANT STREET. + 1873. + + + + + ADDRESS OF WELCOME. + + +MR. ADAMS: + +I have been deputed by my fellow-citizens, of _all parties_, to bid you +a hearty welcome to this city. I have been directed, Sir, to tender to +you the hospitalities of the people, and of the corporate authorities of +this, and of our young, but flourishing, sister of Allegheny. + +We have not strewed flowers in your path, nor erected triumphal arches +at your approach, but greet you with the homage of grateful hearts, as +evinced in this spontaneous outpouring of the people. Here, Sir, is the +token of that universal regard in which you are held by the free +citizens of this great country. And here, Sir, you have the reward for a +long life of meritorious public service. + +What can be more endearing to the heart of the patriot, than this +exhibition of public sentiment; than this manifestation of love for your +person, and admiration for your exalted talents and virtues. Like the +son of Marcus Cato, you have been a foe to tyrants, and your country's +friend, and that country now tenders to you the tribute of her affection +and gratitude. + +You seem, Sir, "like the aged oak, standing alone on the plain, which +time has spared a little longer, after all its cotemporaries have been +levelled with the dust," but the people delight to gather round the +venerable trunk, and dwell beneath the shadow of its yet green foliage. + +Associated as you have been with the FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY, partaking +largely of his confidence, and deeply imbued with the lofty patriotism +of his character, it must be gratifying to you, to visit this, the +theatre of his earliest achievements. + +Here, standing on the portals of the Mississippi valley, his prophetic +eye reaching far into futurity, he saw the materials for that great +empire, with its teeming millions, that now revere and venerate his +name. Here it was that Providence thrice spared his invaluable life. +Once, on the Venango path, when the rifle of the warrior flashed in the +pan. Again, when his frail raft gave way, and he was precipitated amid +ice and snow, and the raging of the elements, into the rapid waters of +the Allegheny. And again, on the shores of the Monongahela, when +Braddock, and Halket, and Peyronney fell, by the deadly aim of the +French and Indians. Two horses shot under him, his clothes perforated +with bullets, himself a bright and shining mark, yet the leaden +messengers were turned aside by an invisible Hand, and he was saved to +lead the armies of his country to victory, and to lay deep that precious +corner-stone of civil polity, that has no parallel in the history of the +world. + +Here it was that in the wigwams, and partaking of the hospitality of +King Shingiss and Queen Allaquippa, his heart imbibed that warm and +active benevolence for the sons of the forest, that was so conspicuous +in his subsequent administration of the government. + +Here it was that the influence of his great NAME suppressed an +insurrection that threatened to sap the foundation of our beautiful +political edifice. And here, Sir, he has a monument in the affection of +his countrymen more durable than brass or marble, and which will remain +steadfast, as long as the rippling current of the Ohio flows on to the +bosom of the Father of waters. + +In 1798, the first armed vessel that ever floated on the western waters +was constructed here under the direction of a Revolutionary officer. She +was a row-galley, mounting a solitary gun, and was intended to protect +our infant trade with that splendid domain afterwards acquired to the +Union by the wisdom and foresight of your illustrious friend and +cotemporary, MR. JEFFERSON. + +The name of that vessel was the JOHN ADAMS, And, if tradition is to be +credited, after performing duty here, she hoisted sails, entered the +peaceful pursuits of commerce, crossed the Atlantic, passed the straits +of Gibraltar, wended her way up the Mediterranean, threaded the +Archipelago, and penetrated to the Dardanelles on the borders of Asia +Minor; thus carrying on her prow into the very bosom of a despotic +country, the name of one of the honored actors in the great struggle for +Republican liberty. + +Look at the contrast now! Instead of the barge, and the row-galley, our +skilful mechanics in 1843 completed, on the very bastions of old Fort +Duquesne, an iron ship of war that is to carry on the Northern Lakes the +stars and stripes of our beloved country--and a frigate is now in +progress of construction, which with her "_iron sides_," is destined to +defend the honor of the American name "in every sea under the whole +heavens." + +When your venerated Sire, with burning zeal, proclaimed independence +_now_, independence _forever_; when, with heroic and inflexible +resolution, he signed his name to the great charter of our liberty, the +place on which you now stand was a barren and unproductive forest. Now, + + "As the swollen column of ascending smoke," + +so swells her grandeur. From a thousand chimneys are emitted the living +evidences of her prosperity. The flaming fire, the busy hammer, the +revolving roller, all give daily, hourly proof of her rapid advancement. +Here the rough misshapen elements of nature are formed and moulded to +suit the purposes of man. Here machines to mitigate the toil of the +laborer, and to facilitate intercourse between the States, are made with +a skill unsurpassed even by the old world. Here the anchor is forged to +give security and protection to the weather-beaten mariner. Here the +shovel and the mattock, the plough and the harrow, go forth to ease the +labors of the husbandman. And here the naked are clothed and the hungry +fed, by the evolution of machinery "and the potent agency of steam." + +To what are we indebted for all these blessings? Since the war of the +Revolution, to that wise TARIFF policy by which you were regulated when +at the head of the government, and as chairman of the Committee on +Manufactures in the Congress of the United States. No base subserviency +to Foreign Powers dictated your course, but a manly and determined +support of the true interests of the country, by the protection of its +industry, and by a proper reciprocity of countervailing restrictions. + +We thank you, Sir--we thank you with the truest friendship and the +deepest sincerity. + +We honor you for the lustre you have shed on all the high places it has +been your good fortune to occupy--we praise you for that sublimest +virtue which shines in all your actions--we see in your brow that +undaunted valor which renders you inexorably firm in the discharge of +all your public duties, and in your eye "that inextinguishable spark, +that fires the souls of patriots." + +Great and good Citizen! Venerable and Venerated Man! Panegyric or +Eulogy, now, or hereafter, cannot add one cubit to your stature. Live +on--live on, in honor and in glory--and when "this corruptible _does_ +put on incorruption, and this mortal, immortality," I pray God that it +may be in the calm serenity of that summer's evening, when bonfires and +illuminations light up the land, in commemoration of that glorious +INDEPENDENCE, to the achievement of which your illustrious FATHER so +largely, so eminently contributed. + + + + + MR. ADAMS' REPLY. + + +FELLOW-CITIZENS: + +Before I attempt to address you, and to respond to the eloquent +discourse pronounced under circumstances so unauspicious to eloquence, I +must apologize for my appearance before you. + +I had expected to have had the honor of meeting you on this day and at +this time; and arrangements were made to render it convenient to +yourselves, but it so happened that the bark on which we had taken our +passage, as if anxious to arrive at the end of her voyage, and partaking +of my feelings, arrived before the time, when your preparations to +receive me were not completed. My appearance was, therefore, accidental +and unexpected, and as my apology, I would remind you of the saying of +the great Poet of Nature, Shakespeare, who says: + + "Lovers break not hours, + Except it be to come before their time." + +If the lover is privileged to "break hours" and "come before his time," +I trust you will accept it as my excuse, and impute it to the ardor of a +lover desiring to see the beloved of his soul. + +Fellow citizens! I had motives of the most cogent nature to inspire me +with that feeling, in times past--I trust forever--when my position was +anything but what I find it now--at a time when I was in a position of +difficulty and danger, I had the gratification to receive testimonials +of regard, respect and sympathy from the citizens of Pittsburgh, beyond +what I received from any other portion of the United States, my own +constituents and the city of Rochester alone excepted. I shall always +entertain a feeling of gratitude, belonging to the nature of man, +towards the citizens of Pittsburgh, for their attention and sympathy on +that trying occasion. I had never flattered myself with the expectation +or hope that it should be in my power to personally return them those +thanks which were due; but they were indelibly impressed upon my +heart--and it is owing rather to accidental circumstances that I now +enjoy that satisfaction. + +During the last summer, I received an invitation to visit a western +city, to perform an act solely connected with the promotion of science, +and totally separated from politics--I came for the purpose of lending +my aid to an object for the advancement and promotion of the happiness +of man on earth--for the advancement of knowledge, for which I hope all +parties are equally zealous--the laying of the corner-stone for an +Astronomical Observatory at Cincinnati. I accepted it, and scarcely had +it become publicly known, till I saw in the public papers a call from +some of my personal friends in this city, to visit and be received by +them on my way to or from the point of my destination. This reached my +ears as coming from personal friends; by personal friends I mean those +who, during a long life, have approved of my political course and +actions. Of personal friends, strictly speaking, I have but few among +your number--there are few in your city with whom I have had the honor +of a personal acquaintance. For this expression of confidence and this +invitation, I felt that gratitude was due from me. + +But scarcely was that invitation consummated till a still more +comprehensive one, from the citizens of all the political parties, was +given to me. This was an honor which has never been extended to me +before, and I am not aware that it has been to any other--it forms an +epoch in our history's history, and if in any thing I can foresee the +voice of posterity, it is in that! + +In compliance with these invitations, and particularly the last, I now +appear before you. I had intended to advert to some topics of general +interest, and to the principles which have governed my course of conduct +heretofore, but leaving them to the judgment of all, and avoiding any +thing calculated to offend any;--but time will not allow, and the +circumstances are such that I cannot think of detaining you here. I must +therefore request you simply to receive the effusions of gratitude from +my breast, applied to each and every one of you. I hope you will +consider those remarks which I intended to have made, as indicative of +the desire which I felt to repay you in some manner for your attentions +towards me; and I trust that the blessings of a bounteous Providence may +rest upon you individually, and that the almighty Ruler of the Universe +may render your course, as a community, glorious and happy hereafter, as +it has been honorable heretofore! + + + + + CORRESPONDENCE. + + + PITTSBURGH, March 29, 1847. + HON. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, + _Washington City, D. C._, + +DEAR SIR: A day or two after I had the honor of addressing you at the +instance of the citizens of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, I met you at the +hospitable table of Col. Robinson. To me, and to all around, the +conversation was most entertaining. All the leading incidents connected +with the history of Western Pennsylvania, from the Whiskey Insurrection +down, seemed to be as familiar to you as to any native to the "manor +born." I recollect well your inquiries relating to the honored widow of +the author of "Modern Chivalry," and how animated you were in speaking +of Captain Farrago and Teague O'Regan. Cervantes would have laughed and +rejoiced at your association of these western heroes with his own, and +the author felt complimented with your favorable criticism of a work +which he never expected to reach a second edition. + +Perusing a reprint of the work this evening, it occurred to me that you +might be amused in reading it, and I have therefore taken the liberty of +enclosing it. + +Trusting that your health is much improved and that it will continue so, + + I have the honor to be, + with the most profound regard, + your obedient servant, + WILSON MCCANDLESS. + + + + + WASHINGTON, 1st April, 1847. + WILSON MCCANDLESS, ESQ., + _Pittsburgh_, _Pennsylvania_. + +DEAR SIR: I cannot lose a moment before acknowledging the receipt of +your letter of the 29th ult., and of the valuable present which +accompanies it--the two volumes of the new edition of Judge H. H. +Brackenridge's "Modern Chivalry, or the Adventures of Captain Farrago +and Teague O'Regan." My visit to Pittsburgh in 1843, and my intercourse +with yourself, with the citizens of that place and Allegheny, at that +time, afford me some of the most pleasing recollections of my life, +grateful recollections of my obligations to yourself and them. + +I had read the first part of Modern Chivalry and formed a pleasant +acquaintance with Captain Farrago and his man Teague, at their first +appearance more than half a century since, and they had then excited +much of my attention as illustrations of life and manners peculiar to +the times and localities, not entirely effaced when I became more +familiarly acquainted with them, by this visit to the latter. + +Captain Farrago and Teague O'Regan are legitimate descendants, on one +side from the La Mancha and his squire Sancho, on the other, from Sir +Hudibras and his man Ralph, and if not primitive conceptions themselves, +are at least as lineal in their descent as the pious AEneas from the +impetuous and vindictive son of Pelias. + +The reappearance of this work, as a second edition, since the author's +death, more than half a century after its first publication, well +warrants the prediction that it will last beyond the period fixed by the +ancient statutes, for the canonization of poets, a full century. I shall +read it over again, I have no doubt, with a refreshing revival of the +pleasure with which I greeted it on its first appearance; and if this +expression of my opinion can give any satisfaction to the remaining +relatives of Judge Brackenridge, or to yourself, it is entirely at your +disposal, being with a vivid sense and grateful remembrance of your +kindness, and that of my fellow-citizens of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, + + Your friend and obedient servant, + J. Q. 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