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john quincy adams is secretary of state. and we are just about to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of, the declaration of independence. and he recognizes the event by commissioning a copperplate engraving. so he'll hire william stone, who's here in washington, d.c. and william stone will take the next three years, copying declaration backwards into a copper plate. backwards, backwards. now, 200 copies are made and william stone asks for a copy for himself. so there are only 201 copies that exist now. they were given to john adams. they were given to thomas and also with mark lafayette. and the rest stayed here. what's interesting is that the original that declaration that we see today is so faded that you miss much of the detail. and so when you actually think of what is the declaration in our we're actually thinking of this print right here. and this is something john quincy adams as secretary of state said, let's do this. absolutely. now, this is a obviously a very beautiful room. i understand that it was one
john quincy adams is secretary of state. and we are just about to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of, the declaration of independence. and he recognizes the event by commissioning a copperplate engraving. so he'll hire william stone, who's here in washington, d.c. and william stone will take the next three years, copying declaration backwards into a copper plate. backwards, backwards. now, 200 copies are made and william stone asks for a copy for himself. so there are only 201...
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you texted john quincy adams is extraordinary. and i felt the same thing as i was reading him, that he just built the virtuous life more inspiringly than any the others. i spent some time on that because. i, i know. and i can, you know, he writes at a pretty high level of enthusiasm, everything and everything that you do you do it at a high level of enthusiasm, which is a virtue, i think an earnest enthusiasm but in your john quincy adams sections, i was feeling your admiration for him. and i'm wondering, you know, how we always talk about even post hbo miniseries. we talk how john adams, the father, is is always thought of a little bit lesser or than thomas jefferson or george washington. and adams understood that in life. i almost feel like john quincy adams like yet another level that there a member of the or a of the founding generation who was really an person who we think about and talk about enough. but why don't you just give like a couple of minutes on how quint john quincy adams for you personified, you know a person rea
you texted john quincy adams is extraordinary. and i felt the same thing as i was reading him, that he just built the virtuous life more inspiringly than any the others. i spent some time on that because. i, i know. and i can, you know, he writes at a pretty high level of enthusiasm, everything and everything that you do you do it at a high level of enthusiasm, which is a virtue, i think an earnest enthusiasm but in your john quincy adams sections, i was feeling your admiration for him. and i'm...
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he is published biographies of thomas carlyle, mark twain, henry james, charles dickens, john quincy adams, abraham lincoln gore vidal, and now thomas jefferson in his masterly pen. kaplan offers us a biography of thomas jefferson by giving an english professor's kind attention to jefferson's written words. jefferson only published one book in his lifetime notes on the state of virginia. but, of course, jefferson wrote consul treatises like a summary view of the rights of british north america legal briefs, memoranda the declaration of independence, and above all letters, thousands of them, which kaplan calls among his most powerful and revealing writings throughout his masterly pen, kaplan brings a skilled biographers attention to how jefferson reveals himself through his writing, often without without intending to, as kaplan says of notes on the state of virginia. it's a book about jefferson partly because jefferson did not want it to, a book about himself. the jefferson we meet here is not surprisingly learned and forceful. but kaplan also shows this jefferson as a writer who's of
he is published biographies of thomas carlyle, mark twain, henry james, charles dickens, john quincy adams, abraham lincoln gore vidal, and now thomas jefferson in his masterly pen. kaplan offers us a biography of thomas jefferson by giving an english professor's kind attention to jefferson's written words. jefferson only published one book in his lifetime notes on the state of virginia. but, of course, jefferson wrote consul treatises like a summary view of the rights of british north america...
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quincy adams. it quoted one lincoln quoted four scriptures. he appealed to prayer about ten times, so he was consumed with his faith by the end of the war and throughout this horrible civil war going on, all these people dying amputations, everything. he's trying to figure out what is our loving god thinking how can allow this to happen and. he finally figured out the answer, and that was he said in his second inaugural address that because we have tolerated slavery for as long as we have, this is god's punishment. we don't know when it will end, but we deserve it. we've got to accept it. and sooner or later we are going to be finished with we are going to put slavery behind us. but but what we've done for long as we've done deserves some serious. and that's what the civil war is. that is the essence of his second inaugural address, somebody who had a harder time being humble was teddy roosevelt, one of the good things that you do in your book, actually, is that with each president to stop and say,
quincy adams. it quoted one lincoln quoted four scriptures. he appealed to prayer about ten times, so he was consumed with his faith by the end of the war and throughout this horrible civil war going on, all these people dying amputations, everything. he's trying to figure out what is our loving god thinking how can allow this to happen and. he finally figured out the answer, and that was he said in his second inaugural address that because we have tolerated slavery for as long as we have, this...
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john adams, period. there was a brief john quincy adams presidency. otherwise presidents who'd sat in the executive mansion throughout that period had been slaveholders or effectively the supporters of slave holders in one way or another. that was obviously a big majority on the supreme court, which is also hugely consequential in the 1850s and was political the way that political alliances worked as the party system developed in the 1830s and forties, meant that effectively southern slave holders could exercise a veto in almost all circumstances over any attempt by the federal government to interfere with the rights of slave holders. and yet the republican party, the whole raison d'etre of the republican party in the 1850s was to stand up to that of northerners. the majority of them by 1860 had come to embrace that. and the question is a critical question for the coming of the civil war is why that was so, how, when and why did white northerners who had once been content, many of them, to tolerate the existence of enslavement, especially if it was el
john adams, period. there was a brief john quincy adams presidency. otherwise presidents who'd sat in the executive mansion throughout that period had been slaveholders or effectively the supporters of slave holders in one way or another. that was obviously a big majority on the supreme court, which is also hugely consequential in the 1850s and was political the way that political alliances worked as the party system developed in the 1830s and forties, meant that effectively southern slave...
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john quincy adams who minister in holland, was writing to his father and to others that he was the the most important diplomat we had abroad. and he was telling everyone that the french were going to invade, come up through the south and. napoleon, after all, was invading countries all over europe and turning them into puppet regimes under french control. and there were so many french sympathizers in america, they figured that the french figured that they might just be able to take over the united states and make it another puppet regime, as they had with holland and switzerland and northern europe and northern italy. so the fear was real. and we need to understand and that our knowledge was not shared by them back then. let me let me pick up on that that our time is ending and maybe it's it's nice to end with a a request, some broad guidance as we approach 250th anniversary about how to think about that founding generation. obviously, founding now is controversial for some good reasons and some bad reasons. it's controversial because people question the morality of some of the founder
john quincy adams who minister in holland, was writing to his father and to others that he was the the most important diplomat we had abroad. and he was telling everyone that the french were going to invade, come up through the south and. napoleon, after all, was invading countries all over europe and turning them into puppet regimes under french control. and there were so many french sympathizers in america, they figured that the french figured that they might just be able to take over the...
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john quincy adams, who wrote his diary, he's secretary of state in 1820 at the time in the missouri compromise and he's similar to pierce said look i'm happy we got this then he writes this in his diary he says it might actually be better if we called a convention of the states article in the constitution and actually to separate, because if we're going to separate sometime, it's going to be because of slavery and maybe we should do it again in a nonviolent. and that was the provision that he that he offered as maybe a way to go. and then you've got john tyler. john tyler, the most ardent states rights president that we've ever had. he was from virginia. he's still in virginia here in 1861. he's of the secession movement, actually, with virginia leaving the union, which they after all, lincoln is is. in fact, he's elected to the confederate house of representatives. he never seats as sits the house of representatives because he dies just before he had his chance to but ardently in favor of this notion of secession. if if the right circumstances come to pass. we're completely all over the map a
john quincy adams, who wrote his diary, he's secretary of state in 1820 at the time in the missouri compromise and he's similar to pierce said look i'm happy we got this then he writes this in his diary he says it might actually be better if we called a convention of the states article in the constitution and actually to separate, because if we're going to separate sometime, it's going to be because of slavery and maybe we should do it again in a nonviolent. and that was the provision that he...