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When the Creeks renewed their depredations after the war, Major Adams, both as a scout and as a leader, fought the Indians with such success as to win distinction. He followed the Indians on this occasion with a few hundred men, who had volunteered to accompany him. His pursuit was not active.
"Having, by this powerful appeal, brought the yet unorganized assembly to a perception of its hazardous position, he submitted a motion requiring the acting clerk to call the roll. Accordingly Mr. Adams was interrupted by a burst of voices demanding, 'How shall the question be put? 'Who will put the question? The voice of Mr.
For one brief second the swirling clouds were reft, revealing, far out eastward, in the dead-land of white, a small dark object the form of a man. One poignant sob was the only sound that Sally made, as she ran toward the stable. "Good Lord! it's him!" said Adams. "Was he heading back this way?" "I think he was," answered Catherwood. "He couldn't do anything else," stammered Slivers.
"Oh, Thomas! do you think their turkey weighs more than ours?" cried Submit. Thomas was her elder brother; he had a sober, judicial air like his father. "Their turkey weighs considerable more than ours," said he. Submit's face fell. "You are not showing a right spirit," said her mother, severely. "Why should you care if the Adams' turkey does weigh more? I am ashamed of you!" Submit said no more.
My dear father stood very near her. She was terribly agitated. There was a narrow passage from the door of entrance to the room, which was on the east, dividing the rows of benches. General Washington stopped at the end to let Mr. Adams pass to the chair. The latter always wore a full suit of bright drab, with lash or loose cuffs to his coat. He always wore wrist ruffles.
Adams carried his fellow-travellers home to his house, where he insisted on their partaking whatever his wife, whom, with his children, he found in health and joy, could provide: where we shall leave them enjoying perfect happiness over a homely meal, to view scenes of greater splendour, but infinitely less bliss.
Soon after the peace, in 1783, he is said to have removed to Newburyport, at the solicitation of his wife, but they found so little to admire in the squabbles that prevailed between the followers of Adams and Jefferson that they soon returned to the River St. John declaring that the Americans were "cursed with liberty." One of Oliver Perley's sons, Solomon, was married by Rev.
For a moment Adams thought his "usefulness" at an end in other respects than in the press, but a day or two more taught him the value of obscurity.
It was now September, and Lafayette had remained in this country much longer than he had expected. The new President, John Quincy Adams, gave him a farewell dinner at the White House, with a large party of notable men. The President's formal farewell to the country's guest is a classic in our literature.
Adams, that if he did not arrive either in the French or English packets, then expected, we should send some person to negotiate these treaties. As he did not arrive in those packets, and I found Mr. Barclay was willing to undertake the negotiations, I wrote to Mr. Barclay would go, and proposing papers for our immediate signature. The day before the return of the courier, Mr.
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