The Seeds Of The Annunciation Of Independence Are Soundless Maturing

John Quincy Adams, the 6th President of  the USA (and boy of the instant president John Adams together with his married adult woman Abigail) started a diary when he was 12 inwards 1779, together with added to it continuously for almost seventy years. Some days the long entries were to a greater extent than than 5,000 words. There's i stretch of 25 years where he didn't fille a day. It sums upwards to to a greater extent than than 14,000 handwritten pages, together with the magic of the Internet lets yous see images of the 51 volumes here.

In thinking almost the July four holiday, here's a comment from Adams's diary on Dec 27, 1819, almost i of the basic questions confronting Americans of that time--and our ain time. Thomas Jefferson both wrote the Declaration of Independence, together with also was a slave-owner. As Adams writes: "With the Declaration of Independence on their lips, together with the merciless scourge of slavery inwards their hands, a to a greater extent than flagrant icon of human inconsistency tin scarcely live conceived ..." Of course, modern Americans together with their leaders tin sometimes stimulate got the Declaration on their lips together with injustice inwards their hands, too.

Facing that contradiction, Adams responded inwards a means that was both ominous and, at to the lowest degree inwards my reading, tinged alongside hope. He wrote: "The seeds of the Declaration of Independence are yet maturing," together with that the number would live the "terrible sublime." Here's the passage, taken from John Quincy Adams, The Memoirs of John Quincy Adams (volume 4, pp. 492-493) available through the magic of the cyberspace at the HathiTrust Digital library.

"[Thomas] Jefferson is i of the neat men whom this terra firma has produced, i of the men who has contributed largely to the formation of our national grapheme — to much that is adept together with to non a petty that is evil inwards our sentiments together with manners. His Declaration of Independence is an abridged Alcoran of political doctrine, laying opened upwards the get-go foundations of civil society; but he does non look to stimulate got been aware that it also lay opened upwards a precipice into which the slave-holding planters of his terra firma sooner or afterwards must fall. With the Declaration of Independence on their lips, together with the merciless scourge of slavery inwards their hands, a to a greater extent than flagrant icon of human inconsistency tin scarcely live conceived than i of our Southern slave-holding republicans. Jefferson has been himself all his life a slave-holder, but he has published opinions then blasting to the rattling beingness of slavery, that, how ever creditable they may live to his candor together with humanity, they verbalise non much for his prudence or his forecast equally a Virginian planter. The seeds of the Declaration of Independence are yet maturing. The harvest volition live what West, the painter, calls the terrible sublime."

H5N1 yoke of the references hither powerfulness comport a fleck to a greater extent than explanation. The reference to the "Alcoran," was a mutual contemporary spelling of what the AP Stylebook straightaway spells equally the "Quran." It's interesting to run across a futurity U.S. president inwards 1819 referring to the Quran equally a parallel for the Declaration of Independence.

The concluding judgement refers to the painter Benjamin West, together with presumably to paintings similar his 1796 "Death on a Pale Horse."



On July 4, I similar to intend that "the seeds of the Declaration of Independence are notwithstanding maturing," alongside a total recognition that this procedure volition non e'er furnish its positive results through a happy cheerful parade of adept feeling, but instead volition sometimes live confrontational, wrenching, together with difficult.


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