record number: 182056

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Dates:

26 Sep. 1818

Original paper slip text:26 Sept. 1818.

Author's location:

Quincy

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Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA

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Recipient:

Caesar Augustus Rodney

Original paper slip text:C.A. Rodney

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Length:

1 p.

Notes:

Corrected institutional code from NHi to NN Gilder Lehrman.- GKF, 2/4/26
[Previously on deposit at NHi, NNPM]
Offered for sale: King V. Hostick 901 South College Springfield, Illinois 62704, Catalogue No. 6, April 1969. $1150.00
"...you allude to original letters from Mr. Otis which you have seen and which do him honour. I dare not ask for those original letters, because if I possessed them myself, I would not part with them... I can never recollect the character and history of Mr. Otis, without a tenderness of sentiment, that all stoic philosophy cannot conquer. One must have lived with him to have known him...... I gaze with awe and reverence on South America and I have gazed for 40 years. That all America will be torn from the domination of Europe I have never doubted but what will be the effects and consequences? Aye! There is the rub. My maxim in all such cases of incomprehensible difficulty has always been ;Stand Still and See, the Salvation of the Lord'! A free Government in South America would produce Revolutions in Religion and Government over the whole Globe. But what an hundred Despotisms would produce who can forsee?"
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