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J. Q. ADAMS.
John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States and the eldest son of John Adams. He was one of the most eloquent of orators, and. shines in history as one of the most polished of our eminent and bald-headed Americans. When he began to speak, his round, smooth head, to look down upon it from the gallery, resembled a nice new billiard ball, but as he wanned up a-nd became more thoroughly stirred, his intellectual dome changed to a delicate pink. Then, when he rose to the full height of his eloquent flight, and prepared to swoop down upon his adversaries and carry them into camp, it is said that his smooth intellectual rink was as i'ed as the flush of rosy dawn on the sth day of July.
He was educated both at home and abroad. That is the reason he was so polished. After he got so 'that he could readily spell and pronounce the most difficult words to be found in the large stores of Boston, he was sent to Europe, where he acquired several foreign tongues, and got so that he could converse with the people of Europe very sfluenily, if they were familiar with English a-s she is spoke.
Mr. Adams was opposed to American slavery, and on several occasions in Congress alluded to his convictions.
He .was in Congress seventeen years, and during that lime he was frequently on his feet attending fc> little matters in which he felt an interest, and when he began to make allusions, and blush all over the top of his head, and kick the desk, and throw ink-bottles at the presiding officer, they say that John Q. made them pay attention. Seward says, "wi'tb unwavering firmness, against a bitter and unscrupulous opposition, exasperated to the highest pitch by his pertinacity—amidst a perfect tempest of vituperation and abuse—he persevered in presenting his anti-slavery petitions, one by one, to the amount sometimes of 200 in one clay." As One of his eminent biographers has truly said : "John Quinoy Adams was indeed no slouch."—From "Bill Nye's Red B00&." '
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 84, 8 April 1916, Page 16
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