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diff --git a/38906.txt b/38906.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..31a0cbe --- /dev/null +++ b/38906.txt @@ -0,0 +1,733 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Ex-President John Quincy Adams in Pittsburgh, by +Wilson McCandless and John Quincy Adams + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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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