John Quincy Adams Digital Diary

324 27— V— Monday. So I resign’d them to their lust— In their own stubborn ways they went O that my People had been just; And in my ways to walk content. O had they hearken’d unto me Their adversaries I had quell’d— Had made their haters bow the knee And all their enemies expell’d. Then had the sons of Israel known, Successive ages of increase And to remotest time had grown In honour, righteousness and peace Then with the finest of the wheat My hand their garners would have fill’d, And fed them with the choicest meat Of honey from the rock distill’d.

H.R.U.S. Saw J. Taliaferro— Petitions called— My Resolution calling for the papers of the Turkish Negotiations, passed as modified— Root apologized for objecting last Friday. Archer consented. Clayton’s Resolution against Bank U—S— Read fifteen Articles of Indictment. M’Duffie, answers them instanter et seriatim. Patton up to speak— Recess from 4 to 7.— Dr J. W. Wallace Ladies and John to Concert House at 7. Sat till 11. Post-Office Bill— In Comee of the Whole— Root Chairman Went through R. M. Johnson Amendments in Mass— Call of the House— Reported no Quorum Adjourned. Home at Midnight.