Negative Space: John Adams
- Another Patriot Gone!
- From The Torch Light and Public Advertiser (Hagerstown, Maryland), Thursday, July 13, 1826, Page 2, from the Morning Chronicle of the same day.
- Beloved while living, and revered now dead
- From the Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, Virginia), Wednesday, July 12, 1826, Page 2, and attributed to “Fenelon”.
- The closing of the year
- From the September 22 and 29, 1826, Wyoming Herald of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, page 4 in each installment. An oration by Peleg Sprague (1793-1880) in Hallowell, Maine, in July, 1826. Sprague was, at the time, U.S. House Representative from Maine’s 4th district.
- A day most signally marked…
- From the the August 8, 1826, Richmond Enquirer of Richmond, Virginia. “A day most signally marked… of events which will be remembered while liberty has a votary…”
- A day now triumphant and sacred
- From the September 23, 1826, Elizabeth City Star and North Carolina Eastern Intelligencer, another excerpt from the August 1 eulogy by “Professor Everett” in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
- Every manly and virtuous resolution
- From the August 21, 1826, Charleston Courier of Charleston, South Carolina, page 1. Excerpts from an oration by John Sergeant (1779-1852), in Philadelphia on July 24, 1826.
- General orders of mourning
- From the Daily National Intelligencer and Washington Express (Washington, District of Columbia), Thursday, July 13, 1826, Page 3.
- Hear, O Heavens! Give Ear, O Earth!
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From the July 18, 1926, Vermont Patriot, Montpelier, Vermont, pages 2 and 3, including a wide selection of news items from other newspapers.
- The heavens beam with new light
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From the August 28, 29, and 30 editions of the Evening Post of New York City, page 2 in each case. Comments on and excerpts of an oration by Daniel Webster at Faneuil Hall August 2, 1826.
- In the Course of Providence
- From the Richmond Enquirer of Richmond, Virginia, August 1, 1826, page 3.
- Inscrutable are the ways of providence!
- From the Daily National Journal, Washington, District of Columbia, Thursday, July 13, page 3, and attributed to the July 11 Maryland Republican.
- Jefferson to Adams, on the death of Abigail
- From the August 30 edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer, page 2, a letter from Jefferson to Adams on the death of Adams’s wife, and used by J. E. Sprague in his “interesting Eulogy”.
- A joy which feeble nature could not sustain
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From the August 19, 1826, Louisiana Advertiser, page 2, a reprint of a July 31 article in the Pittsburgh Gazette by “Medicus”.
- Let our dissensions be buried in their graves
- From the Pittsfield Sun of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, August 31, 1826, a eulogy to Adams and Jefferson by judge of the New York Supreme Court William Alexander Duer (1780-1858), delivered on July 31 and reprinted from the Albany Argus of August 15.
- The Lights of Truth and Unerring Experience
- From the August 25 and September 8, 1826 Kentucky Gazette, a speech by William T. Barry (1784-1835), delivered on August 15 in Lexington, on the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (July 4) and Isaac Shelby, the first (and fifth) Governor of Kentucky under the new Constitution (July 18).
- Lines on the Deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams
- For the Richmond, Virginia Constitutional Whig of July 14, 1826; By A Lady of Richmond, E.L.S.
- No Common Spirits: Jefferson and Adams survive
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Adams and Jefferson both dying on the Jubilee was hailed as “a most singular coincidence… A more signal and impressive combination of circumstances is not to be found… Nothing so sublime could have been conceived by human thought… Who does not envy such a death after such a life?”
- Passages of the happiest eloquence
- From the August 29 edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer, page 2, an excerpt from an oration by Daniel Webster at Faneuil Hall August 2, 1826, and focusing mostly on Webster’s recounting of Jefferson’s political life.
- The soul’s dark cottage
- From the September 9, 1826, United States Telegraph of Washington, DC, page 2, an essay on the deaths of Jefferson and Adams by “Timoleon”.
- Sources from the American Jubilee
- On July 4, 1826, as the country celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died, sparking a long period of essays, orations, and exclamations about that “singular coincidence”.
- Their lives were the gifts of Providence
- From the September 8, 1826, edition of the Constitution Whig of Richmond, Virginia, pages 1 and 2. Comments on and excerpts of an oration by Daniel Webster and reprinted from the National Journal.
- They are now beginning to live
- From the August 28 Charleston Daily Courier, an excerpt from “Mr. Everett’s Eulogy… pronounced before the citizens of Charlestown” on August 1, “delivered with great effect and graceful eloquence.”
- The Venerable Carroll
- The Daily National Journal, Washington, District of Columbia, Saturday, July 15, 1826, page 3.
- What made these men cannot die
- From the September 20, 1826, Daily National Journal, a set of excerpts from the August 1 eulogy by “Professor Everett” in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
- Wounds on the hydra of tyranny
- From the August 19, 1826, Louisiana Advertiser of New Orleans, page 1. A translation from the French of Louisiana Secretary of State Pierre Derbigny’s eulogium to John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
