tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17687594.post3415846527738988867..comments2023-04-25T11:19:18.890-04:00Comments on misanthrope: Week 6 - John Quincy AdamsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17687594.post-15539172968694397182008-04-08T11:45:00.000-04:002008-04-08T11:45:00.000-04:00Jackson -It really is so depressing reading about ...Jackson -<BR/><BR/>It really is so depressing reading about the southern states and their maneuvering to avoid being outnumbered by the northern, non-slave states. Sometimes I will be reading a long passage and suddenly remember that we are talking about the right to own other human beings. It's so twisted that it is hard to get one's head around it. <BR/><BR/>Tony -<BR/><BR/>Yeah, he did go to St. Petersburg as Francis Dana's private secretary. He spent a good deal of his formative years in Europe and his father often complained that he spoke French better than he spoke English. He also came within a hair's breadth of getting his degree from the University of Leyden, instead of Harvard. And he was also married in London.<BR/><BR/>Today, we would burn such a person on the suspicion of being crypto-Euro-trash.<BR/><BR/>DDave Cavalierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11587699320408852435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17687594.post-74152340463378654812008-04-08T10:37:00.000-04:002008-04-08T10:37:00.000-04:00Yeah, it's gets all Indain Killing and States Righ...Yeah, it's gets all Indain Killing and States Rights for the next 30 years.<BR/><BR/>Have fun.<BR/><BR/>My Wars of the Roses marathon is going well. Quite a bit of it is very similar to what's going on today in the USA. Except I surmise that we'll let G W live.Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02717556273714812442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17687594.post-34692264399198874642008-04-08T10:22:00.000-04:002008-04-08T10:22:00.000-04:00"although he was alive during the Revolutionary Wa..."although he was alive during the Revolutionary War, he was just a boy"<BR/><BR/>But wasn't he whosy whatsy's secratary at the age of 14 when his dad sent him to St. Petersburg during the Revolution? Even at 14 the kid had to be building mad diplomatic skillz with a gig like that.Tony Alvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015995902834461332noreply@blogger.com