Diary of Charles Francis Adams, volume 6
1835-10-05
The day was cloudy with mist and drizzle. I had intended to have gone to Quincy but was unable to do so. Went to the Office. The Newspapers are still violent against my father. He has as usual gone a little too far, and told the truth far too violently to be useful. Nevertheless there was no resource to get rid of the base manner in which he has been assailed. I shall resume my writing and begin a course of Articles explanatory of the reasons of the charge. I think I can make them out.
I sent off more papers of my Appeal, and worked upon Accounts and 236Diary. Home. Afternoon, busy in writing and in assorting portions of my large number of J.A. MSS. I must do something with these. Evening quietly at home. I finished two numbers of papers in a new style under the signature of a Massachusetts Voter. I hope they will prove effective.1
CFA, as “A Massachusetts Voter,” gave his new series of papers the title, “The Policy of the Antimasons.” Before concluding it, he wrote eight numbers. They appeared in the Daily Advocate on the 8th (p. 2, col. 1), 14th (p. 2, col. 1), 16th (p. 2, cols. 1–2), 20th (p. 2, col. 1), 23d (p. 2, col. 1), 27th Oct. (p. 2, cols. 1–2), and the 3rd (p. 2, cols. 1–2) and 6th Nov. (p. 2, col. 4). Some, perhaps all, of the series were reprinted in the Pittsburgh Times (Nos. 1 and 2 on 21 Oct., p. 2, cols. 3–4; No. 4 on 4 Nov., p. 2, cols. 3–4).