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    i And was it fot nouglit , that be breathed his > last fey the death tfie brave most fear to dte That victorious Guilt , with her trumpet blast , Gave his name to the winds of infamy f Has he woa but this—that over his tomb Even Hate , for a moment , blushed to smile , And that they , who bad sealed it , mourned the doom , Of him who died for his Orphan Isle ? Believe it not !—Oh , rather believe ¦ That his spirit , like those of the Saints on high ,

    The cloudy glooms of the grave will cleave From beneath the Golden * shrine to cry ! Nor yet in the earth will his free blood sink—It shall rise ere long , in a fount of flame , While a nation ' s hearts of the bright wave drink , Which for ever murmurs of his name !

    And the harp , too long in darkness hung , Shall awaken in Liberty ' s sunbright smile , Till her Martyr ' s meed of fame be flung Upon all the winds of his own Green Isle ! Crediton . 1 ^ 1

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    Adams and Jefferson . ( Extract from a Letter from an Englishman resident in America . ")

    HpHE deaths of Mr . Adams JL and Jefferson , on the same day and on the anniversary of the fiftieth year from the signing of the Act of Independence , was remarkable . They must both be considered as great men . Very different men they certainly were . Mr . Adams had much learning * , and in this respect far surpassed his rival and contemporary . I cannot help thinking also , that he was much the most honest of the two . He was also the best

    politician , well understanding the principles of human nature , and the mode ln which these principles develope themselves in society and government . In the formation of our general and state councils this country ^ under the greatest obligation to his acuteness , firmness , honesty and abitieti

    py . erson understood mankind ) etter in detail , and much excelled | " in address . He was a shrewd . dll < l able politician ; excelled in adaptm his course to the feelings of the " " miiude ; and , if I am not greatly justaken , continually acted upon a W ° * niaiioauvrintr and finesse inch was altogether at variance with ^ penness of Mr . Adam s' temper

    * Hev . vi . 9 . and viii . 3 .

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    H ^ wand character , and which he would not have condescended to practise if he had been able to do it . Jefferson had always in his mouth the honeyed words that fascinate the multitude , philanthropy , liberty , &c . Adams , on the contrary , frequently very bluntly reminded the people of their

    faults and duties , and let them know in plain terms , that demagogues may be as unprincipled and dangerous as tyrants , and that popular passions are not less to be dreaded than the caprices and injustice of courts and cabinets . This they did not like to hear . Jefferson often asserted , and always left them to infer , that all would go well if the will of lite sovereign people was in no respect controuled . Adams wanted temper , and had no small share of vanity

    Jefferson was by no means destitute of this latter quality , but was too cool and too wise to shew it . Adams had undoubtedly a firm and deep conviction of the truths of revealed religion . Many religious sentiments were uttered , and I hope felt , by Jefferson in the latter part of his life . He seems certainly to profess

    himself an Unitarian , but I am not sure that he has ever given any positive proof of his belief in revealed religion . Adams was a zealous Unitarian , and thoroughly understood

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    / Adams and Jefflertm * ' 74 ?

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1826, page 743, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2555/page/43/