Experience the tumultuous political landscape of 19th century South Carolina through the eyes of one of its most prominent public figures. In this collection of recollections, Governor Perry offers unique insights into the civil unrest that defined this pivotal era in American history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Experience the tumultuous political landscape of 19th century South Carolina through the eyes of one of its most prominent public figures. In this collection of recollections, Governor Perry offers unique insights into the civil unrest that defined this pivotal era in American history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OF PUBLIC MEN. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. In the summer of 1846, I had the pleasure of an introduction to John Quincy Adams, in the City of Washington. He was then a member of Congress, and had been President of the United States. I had through life entertained a profound respect for the character and public services of his father, John Adams, the successor of Washington in the Presidential chair. He was one of the boldest and most uncompromising patriots of the revolution. Mr. Jefferson, in the latter part of his life, after a long estrangement with Mr. Adams, spoke of his honesty, purity and patriotism as above reproach. The father of John Adams was a small farmer and shoemaker in Massachusetts. In his writings, edited by his grandson, John Adams mentions his being a laborer on his father's farm in early life. He graduated at Cambridge, and intended to devote himself to the ministry, but afterwards read law, and practiced his profession till the breaking out of the American revolution. He married Miss Smith, the daughter of a clergyman, who was the mother of John Quincy Adams. She was a woman of remarkable endowments, and was strongly suspectedof having an undue influence over the mind of her husband whilst he was President of the United States. There was at one period of their lives a strong friendship between her and Thomas Jefferson, which Mr. Jefferson attempted to revive after his retirement from public life, but she would not be reconciled to him though her husband was. I was introduced to John Q. Adams by Mr. Grinell, a member of Congress from Massachusetts. Mr. Adams was the representative of the township of Sherbarn, the ancestral home of my father, and his ancestors for two centuries past. My father moved to South Carolina in 1784, and I was anxious to know if any ...