Adhere to those religious Sentiments and principals which were early instilled into your mind and remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions. Great Learning and superior abilities, should you ever possess them, will be of little value and small Estimation, unless Virtue, Honour, Truth and integrety are added to them. Improve your understanding for 2 acquiring usefull knowledge and virtue, such as will render you an ornament to society, an Honour to your Country, and a Blessing to your parents. You are in possession of a natural good understanding and of spirits unbroken by adversity, and untamed with care. The most amiable and most usefull disposition in a young mind is diffidence of itself, and this should lead you to seek advise and instruction from him who is your natural Guardian, and will always counsel and direct you in the best manner both for your present and future happiness. They are talents put into your Hands of which an account will be required of you hereafter, and being possessd of one, two, or four, see to it that you double your numbers. You have arrived at years capable of improving under the advantages you will be like to have if you do but properly attend to them. It is a very dificult task my dear son for a tender parent to bring their mind to part with a child of your years into a distant Land, nor could I have acquiesced in such a seperation under any other care than that of the most Excellent parent and Guardian who accompanied you. Altho I have not perticuliarly wrote to you since yet you may be assured you have constantly been upon my Heart and mind. Pese a las enormes probabilidades en su contra, Adams logró la libertad de los africanos con argumentos elocuentes y efusivos, basados en principios tanto legales como morales.Tis almost four Months since you left your Native land and Embarked upon the Mighty waters in quest of a Foreign Country.
Cumplidos sus 73 años, el expresidente y entonces congresista temía no dar la talla, sobre todo ante la doble dificultad de que la mayoría de los jueces eran esclavistas. Sin embargo, en 1840, cuando el destino de los cautivos del barco Amistad quedó en manos del más alto foro judicial de la nación, Adams aceptó unirse a los abogados de la defensa. Nacido en Braintree, Massachusetts John Quincy Adams no había litigado ante el Tribunal Supremo de EE.UU. Despite such formidable odds, Adams prevailed, securing the Africans’ freedom with eloquent and impassioned arguments based on legal as well as moral principles. Aged seventy-three, the former president and current congressman fretted privately that he might not be up to the task-one made doubly difficult by the knowledge that a majority of the sitting justices were enslavers. Yet in 1840, with the fate of the Amistad captives in the hands of the nation’s highest court, Adams agreed to join the Africans’ legal counsel. Restrictions & Rights CC0 Object number NPG.2017.110 Exhibition Label Born Braintree, Massachusetts John Quincy Adams had not argued a case before the U.S. Hiller Richard and Janet Horwood and Mary Martell. 1809 - ? Sitter John Quincy Adams, - Date 1843 Type Photograph Medium Half-plate daguerreotype Dimensions Image/Sight: 13.7 × 10.2 cm (5 3/8 × 4") Frame: 20.8 × 17.3 × 1.3 cm (8 3/16 × 6 13/16 × 1/2") Topic Interior Home Furnishings\Furniture\Seating\Chair Home Furnishings\Furniture\Carpet Home Furnishings\Lighting Devices\Lamp Architecture\Fireplace John Quincy Adams: Male John Quincy Adams: Politics and Government\US Congressman\Massachusetts John Quincy Adams: Politics and Government\Diplomat\Ambassador John Quincy Adams: Politics and Government\President of US John Quincy Adams: Politics and Government\Cabinet member\Secretary of State John Quincy Adams: Politics and Government\US Senator\Massachusetts John Quincy Adams: Politics and Government\Son of US President Portrait Place United States\District of Columbia Credit Line National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Acquired through the generosity of the Secretary of the Smithsonian and the Smithsonian National Board The Burnett Family Fund Carl and Marilynn Thoma Connie and Dennis Keller Tim Lindholm and Lucy Gaylord Lindholm Mr.
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