Lives of the presidentsTold in words of one syllableBy Jean SRemy .. . ave to A-mer-i-ca, inthe spring af-ter that hardwin-ter at Val-ley you see why this tripat this time, was a braveact, and one by which Ad-ams ran a great risk of los-ing his life ? Eng-land hadno wish that he shouldreach France, and her shipstried in vain to get him. Ifhe had been caught hewould have been hung, as aman who was false to hisland and his king. You know that he went to Francethough, and did his work well. He stood up for our rightsand had a bill passed which made the ports of France andEng-land free to
Lives of the presidentsTold in words of one syllableBy Jean SRemy .. . ave to A-mer-i-ca, inthe spring af-ter that hardwin-ter at Val-ley you see why this tripat this time, was a braveact, and one by which Ad-ams ran a great risk of los-ing his life ? Eng-land hadno wish that he shouldreach France, and her shipstried in vain to get him. Ifhe had been caught hewould have been hung, as aman who was false to hisland and his king. You know that he went to Francethough, and did his work well. He stood up for our rightsand had a bill passed which made the ports of France andEng-land free to our goods. At the end of the war he wassent to Eng-land to look out for our rights there; and,though now this is a pleas-ant task, it was not then, for itwas hard for Ad-ams to be true to A-mer-i-ca and yet notan-ger the Eng-lish king, George HI. But we have seen how bold and brave a man he was,so the first thing he said to the king was : I must tell yourMaj-es-ty that I love no coun-try but my own ; and said theking: An hon-est man will nev-er love an-y oth-er. In. CARPENTERS HALL. Where the first Continental Congress met Septem-ber, 1774. JOHN ADAMS, 19
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