. The great American book of biography . JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, THE ACCOIVLFLISHED PRESIDENT, AND GREATDEFENDER OE THE RIGHT OE America is the land of self-made men. Many of thegreatest- statesmen of this republic have been men who,from the deepest poverty and obscurity, rose step by stepto the highest eminence. To such lives the career ofJohn Ouincy Adams forms a curious contrast. He wasthe son of a great statesman, and trained in politics and;_, diplomacy from earliest youth. He was educated in thebest schools of America and Europe. So early were hisabilities developed, that when he w
. The great American book of biography . JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, THE ACCOIVLFLISHED PRESIDENT, AND GREATDEFENDER OE THE RIGHT OE America is the land of self-made men. Many of thegreatest- statesmen of this republic have been men who,from the deepest poverty and obscurity, rose step by stepto the highest eminence. To such lives the career ofJohn Ouincy Adams forms a curious contrast. He wasthe son of a great statesman, and trained in politics and;_, diplomacy from earliest youth. He was educated in thebest schools of America and Europe. So early were hisabilities developed, that when he was a mere boy they attractedthe attention of Washington ; and from that time until the day,hen, half a century later, death found him at his post, he was equal//» to every duty, prepared for every station. He went steadily on, up tothe highest office in the nations gift ; but his unique fame was won, notin his presidency, but in the humbler post which he afterward took in the Houseof Representatives. There, for seventeen years, through evil and good report,he stood, always at his post, maintaining the sacred right of petition,
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