Josiah Quincy: “Adams remarked: "Whether it is for my own good is known only to God.”

They have transmitted that freedom to you; and upon you now devolves the duty of transmitting it unimpaired to your posterity.

Union!' be this the watchword of your camp; and if Ate, hot from hell, will come and cry 'Havoc!' fight--fight and conquer, under the banner of universal freedom.

Adams replied: "I have no hesitation to say I hold that act unconstitutional and void.

In what language of composure or of decency can I say to you that there is in this bitter and venomous charge not one single word of truth; that it is from beginning to end grossly, glaringly, wilfully false?--false even in the name of the…