91. “John Adams has neither judgment”: Maclay, Journal of William Maclay, 278.

  92. New Yorkers were outraged: See New York Journal and Patriotic Register, July 2, July 9, July 20, 1790; New York Daily Gazette, July 3, 1790.

  93. “the dazzling Mrs. Bingham”: AA to Abigail Adams Smith, Dec. 26, 1790, AP, MHS.

  94. “fine ladies show”: AA to Cotton Tufts, Feb. 6, 1791, AP, MHS.

  95. “this young man”: AA to JA, Jan. 5, 1794, AP, MHS.

  96. “We all preach patience”: AA to Mary Cranch, March 12, 1791, AP, MHS.

  97. her greater worry: AA to Mary Cranch, Dec. 12, 1790, AP, MHS.

  98. “the political heresies”: Boyd, ed., PTJ, XX, 290.

  99. “mortified”: Ibid., 292.

  100. Adams answered Jefferson: Cappon, ed., Adams-Jefferson Letters, 247–50.

  101. “Indeed, it was impossible”: Ibid., 250–52.

  103. “a clever, sober”: AA to Mary Cranch, Dec. 18, 1791, AP, MHS.

  104. “I firmly believe”: AA to Mary Cranch, April 20, 1792, AP, MHS.

  105. “not only a monarchist”: J. C. Miller, Alexander Hamilton, 317.

  106. “pretenders to profound knowledge”: Malone, Jefferson and the Rights of Man, 459.

  107. “mutual forebearances”: Catanzariti, ed., PTJ, XXIV, 317.

  108. “North and South”: Ibid., XXIII, 538–39.

  109. “a real friend”: Syrett, ed., Papers of Alexander Hamilton, XII, 568.

  110. “I am persuaded”: Ibid., 342.

  111. 6,000 to 7000 people: Massachusetts Centinel, Oct. 3, 1792.

  112. “too dreadful to relate”: Abigail Adams Smith to AA, Sept. 13, 1792, AP, MHS.

  113. a stinging confidential reply: Catanzariti, ed., PTJ, XXV, 14.

  114. “he had been long”: JA to AA, Nov. 24, 1792, AP, MHS.

  115. “I am with all the ardor”: JA to AA, Jan. 27, 1793, AP, MHS.

  116. “You apologize for the length”: JA to AA, Feb. 4, 1794, AP, MHS.

  117. “newspaper warfare”: AA to JA, Dec. 23, 1792, AP, MHS.

  118. “hell hounds”: JA to AA, Jan. 24, 1793, AP, MHS.

  119. “His skin is thinner”: JA to AA, Jan. 31, 1793, AP, MHS.

  120. “For God’s sake”: Mason, ed., Papers of James Madison, XV, 43.

  121. “polite enough to accompany”: JA to AA, Feb. 3, 1793, AP, MHS.

  122. “the whole man”: Ibid.

  123. “blind spirit of party”: JA to AA, Dec. 28, 1792, AP, MHS.

  124. “Danton, Robespierre”: JA to AA, Jan. 14, 1793, AP, MHS.

  125. “The whole drama”: JA to AA, Feb. 27, 1793, AP, MHS.

  126. “his head was severed”: New York Daily Gazette, April 3, 1789.

  127. Mankind are now enlightened: New York Journal and Patriotic Register, April 6, 1793.

  128. “All the old spirit”: Catanzariti, ed., PTJ, XXV, 661.

  129. “pretty short of cash”: Thomas Adams to JA, Oct. 9, 1793, AP, MHS.

  130. “Would to Heaven”: AA to Abigail Adams Smith, Feb. 3, 1794, AP, MHS.

  131. “I go to the Senate”: JA to AA, Jan. 21, 1794, AP, MHS.

  132. “My country in its wisdom”: JA to AA, Dec. 19, 1793, AP, MHS.

  133. “But his want of candor”: JA to AA, Dec. 26, 1793, AP, MHS.

  134. “Jefferson went off”: JA to AA, Jan. 6, 1794, AP, MHS.

  135. Jefferson thinks he shall: JA to JQA, Jan. 3, 1793, AP, MHS.

  136. “din of politics”: Cappon, ed., Adams-Jefferson Letters, 253–54.

  137. “find a way to reconcile”: Ibid., 255.

  138. “tranquility becomes daily”: Ibid., 257.

  139. This has injured: Ibid., 258.

  140. “paper transactions”: Ibid., 254.

  141. “The rights of one generation”: Ibid., 255.

  142. Reasoning has been all lost: Ibid., 259.

  143. “My health is entirely”: Stagg, ed., Papers of James Madison, XVI, I.

  144. “nail manufactory”: Cappon, ed., Adams-Jefferson Letters, 258.

  145. “Move or die”: JA to Charles Adams, Feb. 7, 1795, AP, MHS.

  146. red, watery eyes: Adams’s eye troubles through much of his life may have been caused by a disease known as thyrotoxicosis. See John Ferling and Lewis E. Braverman, “John Adams’s Health Reconsidered,” William and Mary Quarterly, Jan. 1998.

  147. “painful to the vanity”: JA to JQA, April 26, 1795, AP, MHS.

  148. “Much more depends”: JA to JQA, April 3, 1794, AP, MHS.

  149. “How the present age”: JA to Charles Adams, Jan. 9, 1794, AP, MHS.

  150. “I know not what”: JA to AA, Jan. 21, 1794, AP, MHS.

  151. “My aged and venerable mother”: JA to Abigail Adams Smith, Jan. 7, 1794, AP, MHS.

  152. “I have often thought”: JA to AA, May 19, 1794, AP, MHS.

  153. “superior to all sense”: Twining, Travels in America a Hundred Years Ago, 37–39.

  154. “Were I to declare”: Charles Adams to JA, March 12, 1794, AP, MHS.

  155. “After all the hairbreadth”: Abigail Adams Smith to JQA, Oct. 26, 1795, AP, MHS.

  156. “I am heir apparent”: JA to AA, Jan. 20, 1796, AP, MHS.

  157. “I will be second”: AA to JA, Jan. 21, 1796, AP, MHS.

  158. “I am weary”: JA to AA, Feb. 10, 1796, AP, MHS.

  159. “You know what is before you”: AA to JA, Feb. 20, 1796, AP, MHS.

  160. “I have looked into myself”: JA to AA, March 1, 1796, AP, MHS.

  161. “If I were near”: JA to AA, March 11, 1796, AP, MHS.

  162. “teeth and . . . nails”: Ibid.

  163. “He detained me there”: JA to AA, March 25, 1796, AP, MHS.

  164. “and good humor”: JA to AA, May 5, 1796, AP, MHS.

  165. “This day my new barn”: DJA, III, 227.

  166. “a soft, fine”: Ibid., 228.

  167. “mosquitoes numerous”: Ibid., 238.

  168. “Of all the summers”: Ibid., 238.

  169. “venomous as Macbeth’s”: AA to TA, Aug. 16, 1796, AP, MHS.

  170. an alarm: Aurora, Oct. 29, 1796.

  171. “Poor Jefferson”: JA to JQA, Nov. 11, 1796, AP, MHS.

  172. “as great a hypocrite”: Smith, John Adams, II, 908.

  173. “Take his character”: AA to JA, Nov. 8, 1796, AP, MHS.

  177. “The old man”: Works, I, 495.

  178. “he had always been”: Lipscomb, ed.,Writings of Thomas Jefferson, IX, 351.

  179. “open for your perusal”: Cappon, ed., Adams-Jefferson Letters, 262.

  180. The letter was never sent: Ibid., n. 254.

  9. OLD OAK

  1. “like marks of approbation”: Boston Gazette, March 16, 1797.

  2. “the most affecting”: JA to AA, March 17, 1797, AP, MHS.

  3. “simple but elegant”: JA to AA, March 5, 1797, AP, MHS.

  4. Quincy coat of arms: JA to AA, Feb. 2, 1797. AP, MHS

  5. “They shall have a republican”: JA to AA, Jan. 31, 1797. AP, MHS

  6. “I have been so strangely”: JA to AA, March 9, 1797. AP, MHS

  7. Adams energetically repeating: Washington (D.C.) Gazette, March 8–11, 1797.

  8. “A solemn scene”: JA to AA, March 5, 1797. AP, MHS

  9. “Thus ended”: Boston Gazette, March 16, 1797.

  10. “Republican plainness”: Aurora, March 20, 1797.

  11. It is universally admitted: March 15, 1797.

  12. “an old fielder”: JA to AA, Jan. 16, 1797. AP, MHS

  13. a ship ballasted with iron: Elbridge Gerry to AA, Jan. 7, 1797. AP, MHS

  14. “I will not”: Cotton Tufts to JA, Jan. 23, 1797. AP, MHS

  15. “I congratulate you”: Cushing, ed., Writings of Samuel Adams. IV, 408

  16. “between the rising”: William and Mary Quarterly

  17. Andrew Brown fire: Gazette of the United States, Jan. 30, 1797.

  18. “I am not alarmed”: JA to Abigail Adams Smith, Feb. 21, 1797. AP, MHS

  19. “The die is cast”: JA to AA, Feb. 9, 1797. AP, MHS

  20. “Pickering and all his colleagues”: Works. VIII, 523.

  21. “I may say”: JA to Tristram Dalton, Jan. 19, 1797. AP, MHS

  22. “which is and shall be”: JA to Elbridge Gerry, Feb. 20, 1797. AP,#117,MHS.

  23. “speak with pleasure”: Butterfield, ed., Letters of Benjamin Rush, II, 785.

  24. “entered immediately”: “The Anas,” Lipscomb, ed., Writings of Thomas Jefferson. I, 414.

  25. “first wish of his heart”: Ibid

  26. certain Madison would not accept: Ibid

  27. “eminent character”: Malone, Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty. 297.

  28. “steer impartially”: “The Anas,” Lipscomb, ed., Writings of Thomas Jefferson. I, 415.

  29. “I give it as my decided opinion”: Works, VIII, 530.

  30. “The President”: Stagg, ed., Papers of James Madison, XVI, 448.

  31. “He is as he was”: JA to AA, March 13, 1797. AP, MHS.

  32. “My entrance into office”: JA to JQA, March 31, 1797, AP, MHS.

  33. “I have a great cold”: JA to AA, March 13, 1797, AP, MHS.

  34. “From the situation”: JA to AA, March 17, 1797. AP, MHS.

  35. The furniture: JA to AA, March 22, 1797. AP, MHS.

  36. “very dry, dull”: JA to AA, April 13, 1797. AP, MHS.

  37. “certain ex-Secretary”: Aurora, April 15, 1797.

  38. mr pinnckney Porcupine’s Gazette, April 4, 1797.

  39. It is manifestly: April 25, 1797.

  40. “I must entreat you”: JA to AA, April 11, 1797. AP, MHS.

  41. “The times are critical”: JA to AA, April 6, 1797. AP, MHS.

  42. “My pen runs riot”: AA to JA, Jan. 29, 1797. AP, MHS.

  43. “Beware that spare Cassius”: AA to JA, Jan. 28, 1797, AP, MHS.

  44. James Prince: AA to JA, Feb. 13, 1797, AP, MHS.

  45. “matrimonial prospects”: JQA to AA, Feb. 18, 1797, AP, MHS.

  46. “a man wholly devoid”: AA to JA, Jan. 28, 1797, AP, MHS.

  47. “The good old lady”: AA to JA, April 17, 1797, AP, MHS.

  48. “My reflections”: AA to Mary Cranch, May 16, 1797, AP, MHS.

  49. I quitted my own carriage: AA to Mary Cranch, May 16, 1797, AP, MHS.

  50. “inflicted a wound”: Works, IX, 114-15.

  51. “emblems of defense”: Columbian Centinel, May 24, 1797.

  52. It may be justly called: Gazette of the United States, May 20, 1797.

  53. “placed matters upon their true ground”: Fitzpatrick, ed., Writings of George Washington, XXXV, 456.

  54. “The President by Three Votes”: Aurora, May 19, 1797.

  55. “he is a plain man”: Works, VIII, 549.

  56. “The task of the President”: AA to Mary Cranch, June 23, 1797, AP, MHS.

  57. “such close application”: Stewart Mitchell, New Letters of Abigail Adams, 96.

  58. The day is past: Ibid., 91.

  59. “Mrs. Tufts”: Ibid., 90.

  60. “closet politician”: William Plummer, Memorandum, 454.

  61. “The President really suffers”: Stewart Mitchell, New Letters of Abigail Adams. 98.

  62. “steady and resolute”: William and Mary Quarterly,

  63. “The hot weather”: AA to Mary Cranch, July 19, 1797, AP, MHS.

  64. “absconded”: Aurora, July 28, 1797.

  65. “I have now the happiness”: JQA and Louisa Catherine Adams to AA and JA, July 28, 1797, AP, MHS.

  66. “I cannot leave her”: AA to Mary Cranch, Oct. 22, 1797, AP, MHS.

  67. “My real crime”: Syrett, ed., Papers of Alexander Hamilton. XXI, 122.

  68. “Alas, alas”: AA to Thomas Adams, Jan. 3, 1798, AP, MHS.

  69. “We are yet all”: AA to William Smith, Feb. 22, 1798, AP, MHS.

  70. “It is an undoubted”: Syrett, ed., Papers of Alexander Hamilton. XXI, 342.

  71. “you do not speak to the point”: DeConde, Quasi-War, 49.

  72. “insane”: Mattern, ed., Papers of James Madison, XVII, 99.

  73. “Beds of roses”: AA to Mary Cranch, March 20, 1798, AP, MHS.

  74. “He has no ambition”: AA to Mary Cranch, March 27, 1798, AP, MHS.

  75. “Gallatin ... stood to propose”: Walters, Albert Gallatin, 106.

  76. “struck dumb”: AA to Cotton Tufts, May 25, 1798, AP, MHS.

  77. “unhinged”: Aurora, May ,23 .1798.

  78. “malice and falsehood”: AA to Mary Cranch, April 21, 1798, AP, MHS.

  79. “Such lies”: Stewart Mitchell, New Letters of Abigail Adams, 154.

  80. “In short, we are now”: AA to Mary Cranch, April 28, 1798, AP, MHS.

  81. “The theater”: AA to Thomas Adams, May 1, 1798, AP, MHS.

  82. “reign of witches”: Malone, Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty, 382.

  83. “Politics and party hatreds”: Betts and Bear, Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson. 162.

  84. “he falls away”: AA to Mary Cranch, May 20, 1798, AP, MHS.

  85. “I dare not say”: AA to Cotton Tufts, June 8, 1798, AP, MHS.

  86. “I think sometimes”: Stewart Mitchell, New Letters of Abigail Adams. 178.

  87. “Poor wretches”: ibid., 190.

  88. Can it be possible: Ibid., 192.

  89. “among the wolves”: Mary Cranch to AA, June 22, 1798, AP, MHS.

  90. “I will never send”: R. A. Brown, Presidency of John Adams, 57.

  91. “This city”: AA to JQA, June 12, 1798, AP, MHS.

  92. “Why, when we have”: AA to Mary Cranch, June 9, 1798, AP, MHS.

  93. “the weather so hot”: AA to Mary Cranch, June 15, 1798, AP, MHS.

  94. “I wish the laws”: Stewart Mitchell, New Letters of Abigail Adams, 179.

  95. “It was one of those strokes”: AA to Mary Cranch, July 9, 1798, AP, MHS.

  96. “I meant to have it”: AA to Mary Cranch, April 28, 1798, AP, MHS.

  97. “The illness”: Abigail Adams Smith to JQA, Sept. 28, 1798, AP, MHS.

  98. “the most gloomy’’: Works, VIII, 613.

  99. “and mine in consequence”: Ibid., 601.

  100. lighthouse at Cape Hatteras:Oliver Wolcott to JA, Sept. 21, 1798, AP, #931, MHS.

  101. $5,000,000: JA to Oliver Wolcott, Oct. 1, 1798, AP, #931. MHS.

  102. “I have supposed”: James McHenry to JA, Sept. 3, 1798, AP, #931. MHS.

  103. “Wooden walls”: JA to Boston Marine Society, Sept. 7, 1798, AP, #931, MHS.

  104. “The arrangement”: Syrett, ed., Papers of Alexander Hamilton, XXI, 535.

  105. “Do not, I pray”: Ibid., XXII, 176.

  106. letter to Oliver Wolcott: JA to Oliver Wolcott, Sept. 24, 1798, AP, #931, MHS.

  107. “dying bed”: AA to JQA, Nov. 15, 1798 AP, MHS.

  108. “The best skill”: Aurora, Sept. 6, 1798.

  109. “I have not enjoyed”: AA to JQA, Dec. 2, 1798, AP, MHS.

  110. “He is not at peace”: AA to JQA, Nov. 15, 1798, AP, MHS.

  10. STATESMAN

  1. “Our horses”: JA to AA, Nov. 14, 1798, AP, MHS.

  2. “We glided along”: JA to AA, Nov. 15, 1798, AP, MHS.

  3. “fretful nor peevish”: JA to AA, Nov. 13, 1798, AP, MHS.

  4. “Nelson’s victory”: JA to AA, Nov. 13, 1798, AP, MHS.

  5. “Almost the whole”: Aurora, Nov. 12, 1798.

  6. received Logan: Works, IX, 244.

  7. “But I’ll do no such thing”: DeConde, Quasi-War, 166

  8. “I had no reason”: Works., IX, 244.

  9. “We are friends”: Works, I, 532.

  10. “This you perceive”: Syrett, ed., Papers of Alexander Hamilton, XXII, 389.

  11. “The man is stark mad”: DeConde, Quasi-War, .171.

  12. “That man would ... become”: Ibid., 97.

  13. Joseph Bunel: Ibid., 97.

  14. “with the greatest part”: Ibid., 135.

  15. “Toussaint’s clause”: Ibid., 136.

  16. “good health and spirits”: Aurora, Nov. 12, 1798.

  17. “If you come”: JA to AA, Dec. 4, 1798, AP, MHS.

  18. “A peck of troubles”: JA to AA, Dec. 13, 1798, AP, MHS.

  19. “warm opposition”: JA to AA, Jan. 5, 1799, AP, MHS.

  20. “My daughter and son”: JA to AA, Dec. 17, 1798, AP, MHS.

  21. “I am old”: JA to AA, Dec. 25, 1798, AP, MHS.

  22. “natural right”: Malone, Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty, 405.

  23. “Firmness on our part”: Lipscomb, ed., Writings of Thomas Jefferson. X, 94.

  24. “We may expect”: Ford, ed., Writings of Thomas Jefferson. VII, 349.

  25. “The circle of our nearest”: Betts and Bear, Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson. 170.

  26. “[Adams] thought Hamilton”: “Meeting of March 26, 1799 with John Adams.” Papers of Elbridge Gerry, LOC.

  27. “I write to you nothing”: JA to AA, Dec. 25, 1798, AP, MHS.

  28. “Thomas is my delight”: JA to AA, Jan. 25, 1799, AP, MHS.

  29. February 18, 1799: DeConde, Quasi-War, 178.

  30. “honor of the country”: Twohig, ed., PGW, III, 389.

  31. “I beg you”: Syrett, ed., Papers of Alexander Hamilton. XXII, 500.

  32. “event of events”: Mattern, ed., Papers of James Madison. XVII, 233.

  33. “hoping that his friends”: Ibid., 244.

  34. “fair applause”: Aurora, Feb. 27, 1799.

  35. “This was pretty saucy”: AA to JA, Feb. 27, 1799, AP, MHS.

  36. “I wish all other officers”: Works, XVII, 636.

  37. Nor do I think: Ibid., 651.

  38. “The public sentiment”: Ibid., 637-38.

  39. “It always gives me pain”: Ibid., 662.

  40. “genius in the command”: Ibid., 662.

  41. “Genius in a general”: Ibid.

  42. “It is far below”: Ibid., IX, IO.

  43. “considerable difference”: Ibid., 20.

  44. “that artful designing”: Ibid., 28.

  45. “I have only one favor”: Ibid., 34.

  46. “I pitied her”: JA to AA, Oct. 12, 1799, AP, MHS.

  47. “I renounce him”: JA to AA, Oct. 12, 1799, AP, MHS.

  48. “Any calamity”: Stewart Mitchell, New Letters of Abigail Adams, 211.

  49. “loaded with sorrow”: JA to AA, Oct. 12, 1799, AP, MHS.

  50. “His eloquence and vehemence”: Works, IX, 255.

  51. “The President has resolved”: Syrett, ed., Papers of Alexander Hamilton, XXIII, 545.

 

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