by Harlow Unger
21 Memoirs, 11:71.
22 Bemis, Union, citing Theodore Weld to Angelina G. Weld and Sarah Grimké, January 23, 1842, Weld-Grimké Letters, January 23, 1842, 2, 899–1000, in Bemis, Union, 426.
23 Memoirs, 11:73–74.
24 Register of Debates, 11, Pt. 2, 1399.
25 Bemis, Union, 432.
26 Ibid., 56.
27 Bemis, Union, 434–435; Congressional Globe, 11:208.
28 Congressional Globe, 11:168–208.
29 Congressional Globe, 11:208.
30 Allan Nevins, ed., The Diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794–1845 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951), xxvii.
31 Barton H. Wise, The Life of Henry Wise of Virginia, 1806–1876 (New York: Macmillan, 1899), 61–62, cited in Bemis, Union, 436–437.
32 Letters to JQA from Isaac Fisher (February 15, 1842), William Shinn (March 4, 1842), and John Greenleaf Whittier (January 31, 1842), AP MHS.
33 T. H. Brower to JQA, February 8, 1842, AP MHS.
34 Memoirs, 12:116.
35 Ibid., 11:383.
36 Abraham Lincoln Speech in the U.S. House of Representatives on Internal Improvements, June 20, 1848, in Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings, 1832–1858, ed. Don E. Fehrenbacher (New York: Library of America, 1989), 187–198.
37 LCA to her niece Abigail Brooks Adams, December 9, 1847, reel 536, AP MHS.
38 Congressional Globe, 17:437–438.
39 Memoirs, 12:281.
40 Bemis, Union, 534.
41 Token of a Nation’s Sorrow: Addresses to the Congress of the United States and Funeral Solemnities on the Death of John Quincy Adams Who Died in the Capitol at Washington on Wednesday Evening, February 23, 1848 (Washington: J. and G. S. Gideon, 1848), in Bemis, Union, 538.
42 November 12, 1842, in Diaries, MHS.
43 Memoirs, 7:164, mistakenly published in his Memoirs as written on October 30, 1826. In his old age, JQA had slipped the undated poem at random between pages of his diary bearing the 1826 date, and his son, Charles Francis, in compiling his father’s Memoirs for publication, assumed that was the date on which his father had written it.
44 JQA “To My Children,” September 18, 1809, reel 408, AP MHS.
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