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In 1851 he was elected to the United States Senate by a coalition between his party and the Democrats. This is the only public office he ever held, but he was continuously reelected until his death in 1874. John Quincy Adams had addressed audiences trained in the old school, which did not defend slavery on moral grounds.
But the accusation of being unpatriotic, of placing commerce above love of country, and the suspicion of holding intercourse with the commercial enemy had driven many from their ranks. John Quincy Adams, the hope of his father's age, was not the only apostate of the day.
Robert Quincy Beer became a partner. Mr. Beer had long been a trusted and successful agent and he was put in charge of the agency department. Under this partnership the business gradually became systematized in departments.
Charles Francis Adams, when he describes his native town of Quincy in the first half of the Nineteenth Century.
With this unrestricted exposition of the motives by which I have been governed in this transaction, as well as of the objects to be discussed and of the ends, if possible, to be attained by our representation at the proposed congress, I submit the propriety of an appropriation to the candid consideration and enlightened patriotism of the Legislature. John Quincy Adams. Washington, March 16, 1826.
John Quincy Adams, who, talking to me about Desdemona, assured me, with a most serious expression of sincere disgust, that he considered all her misfortunes as a very just judgement upon her for having married a 'nigger? I think if some ingenious American actor of the present day, bent upon realising Shakespeare's finest conceptions, with all the advantages of modern enlightenment, could contrive to slip in that opprobrious title, with a true South-Carolinian anti-Abolitionist expression, it might really be made quite a point for Iago, as, for instance, in his first soliloquy 'I hate the nigger, given in proper Charleston or Savannah fashion, I am sure would tell far better than 'I hate the Moor. Only think, E , what a very new order of interest the whole tragedy might receive, acted throughout from this standpoint, as the Germans call it in this country, and called 'Amalgamation, or the Black Bridal.
"But how did you gain your freedom?" asked Quincy. "Did they pension you?" "Oh, no. An uncle died out West and left me enough with which to buy an annuity. I board with the Reverend Mr. Howe. You remember him?" "Why, certainly, I do. And here's his son, Emmanuel have I got the name right?" "Yes, Governor, just right as to sound. I spell it with an 'E' and two M's," said young Mr.
It's the first step towards keeping my promise to Mr. Cass, and he's tenacious, you know. I told you all about it when I called this afternoon. So, please don't say 'this is so sudden." "Are you crazy, Quincy?" "No, sane. Delightfully so. I told Mr. Cass I couldn't marry you until to-day. I got the license this noon."
"Alice, five years ago, could your wildest imagination have conjured up such an evening as this?" "No, Quincy. What has taken place in our lives is truly wonderful. My daily prayer is that these happy days may last." Governor Sawyer sat in the Executive Chamber at the State House. It was eleven o'clock on the morning following the festivities at Fernborough.
"Did Reginald tell you?" "Who is Reginald?" asked Quincy. "Oh," said Maude, tossing her head, "he's Florence's latest. She met him night before last " "Maude!" Her sister's voice was full of angry protest. "Don't say another word." "Such matters," said her mother mildly, "are not suitable subjects for general conversation. There is a privacy about them which should be respected."