Eulogy on the Honorable, John Quincy Adams

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Excerpt from Eulogy on the Honorable, John Quincy Adams: Delivered March 24, 1848, at the Request of the Students of Dartmouth CollegeIt is easy to enact a local pageant for political effect to exalt a military chieftain, or a public orator. A crowd can be assembled for any purpose to observe the tricks of a mounte bank, or the execution of a criminal. Any thing that speaks sharply to the senses of men will move the masses as by an electric impulse, and sway them to the will of the practised operator. But when a great nation stops suddenly in its wild career, and bows itself before the God of nations, when it confesses to him, as if struck by the remembrance of his ma jesty, and its own unworthiness, the cause of that effect is not magnetic, but moral. Something has touched not the nerves, but the heart.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.