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Louisa Catherine Adams Political Content ALS

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Louisa Catherine Adams Political Content ALS
<B>Louisa Catherine Adams Political Content Autograph Letter Signed</B></I> in full. 3¼ pages, 4.5" x 7", plain foldover lettersheet, Quincy MA , September 16, 1848, to Mary. Just a few months after the death of her husband, John Quincy Adams, Louisa writes a wonderful letter defending his beliefs and his name. It reads, in part, "<I>...My health is very poor since the cold weather has set in... and I am very much worried at the </B></I><B><I>total perversion of Mr. Adams' opinions by honorable</B></I></B></I><I> Members of Congress for electioneering purposes; as every one I knew that he could not have declared for Genl</B></I> Zachary <B><I>Taylor</B></I></B></I><I>; as Mr. </B></I> Henry <I>Clay was the prominent Candidate of the Whigs when he died. It would be of no importance did these gentlemen not make these assertions, to injure my only Child, and they use it shamefully and disgracefully: </B></I><B><I>knowing it not to be true</B></I></B></I><I>. It is insulting the sacred Corps e of him who God himself forced them to respect in the cold Majesty of death; in whose presence all were forced by the Almighty; to acknowledge his worth and to consecrate with every testimony of honor his purity and his truth. You have always taken such an interest in him and were always so kindly treated by him; will do him justice wherever you have an opportunity to defend him; and I exact it of you as a mark of affection for his memory. He detested the idea of a </B></I><B><I>Military</B></I></B></I><I> President as much as he detested the Mexican War; and the domination of the South... Present me kindly to Mrs. Madison...</B></I>" (emphasis hers). This letter was almost certainly written to Mary Allen, the niece of Dolley Madison and the daughter of Congressman John G. Jackson. Mrs. Adams must have been very saddened when Zachary Taylor was elected president based on his war heroics in the Mexican-American War just two months after the penning of this letter. Minor toning on the blank portion of the last leaf, else fine.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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