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Fort Worth, Texas. The late David McCullough was a legendary historian and author of many award-winning works, such as The Great Bridge. John Adams, the American Spirit. The Wright brothers. in seventeen seventy six, the last two of which you can find at AllAmerican Stories.
He also received numerous honors and awards. including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. the nation's highest civilian award. In 1989, McCullough addressed Congress to celebrate. The 200th anniversary.
of the first meeting of Congress back in 1789. in New York City. He talked about many things, none more interesting than his discussion about John Quincy Adams, who, After serving as the nation's president, returned to Congress to do his part to end slavery. Let's take a listen. On a June afternoon in 1775, before there was ever a Congress of the United States or a United States of America, a small boy stood with his mother on a distant knoll watching the Battle of Bunker Hill.
That was Adams. John Quincy Adams. Diplomat Senator, Secretary of State, President of the United States, who in his lifetime had seen more and contributed more to the history of his time than almost anyone. And who, as no former president ever had, returned here to the Hill. to take a seat in the House of Representatives in the 22nd Congress.
and was thrilled at the prospect. Most importantly, it was here that this extraordinary American had his finest hours. Adams took his seat in the old house in what is now Statuary Hall in 1831. Small fragile Fearing no one, he spoke his mind and conscience. He championed mechanical improvements and scientific inquiry.
To no one in Congress are we so indebted for the establishment of the Smithsonian Institution. With Congressman Lincoln of Illinois and Corwin of Ohio, He cried out against the Mexican war. And for eight long years, almost alone, He battled the infamous Gagru. imposed by Southerners to prevent any discussion of petitions against slavery. Adams hated slavery.
But he was fighting, he said, more for the unlimited right of all citizens to have their petitions heard, whatever their cause. It was a gallant fight. and he won. The gag rule was permanently removed. Earlier this year, at the time of the inaugural ceremonies, I heard a television commentator broadcasting from Statuary Hall complain of the resonance and echoes in the room.
What resonance? What echoes? John Quincy Adams is a reminder that giants come in all shapes and sizes and that at times they have walked these halls, their voices have been heard, their spirit felt here. Listen, please, to this from his diary from march 29, 1841. The world, the flesh, all the devils in hell are arrayed against any man who now in this North American Union shall dare to join the standard of Almighty God to put down the African slave trade.
and what can I upon the verge of my seventy fourth birthday with a shaking hand, a darkening eye, A drowsy brain, and with all my faculties dropping from me one by one as the teeth are dropping from my head. What can I do for the cause of God? and man. Yet my conscience presses me on. Let me but die upon the breach.
And how he loved the House of Representatives. The forms and proceedings of the House, he writes, this call of the states for petitions. The colossal emblem of the union over the speaker's chair. This historic news at the clock. The echoing pillars of the hall.
the tripping Mercuries who bear the resolutions and amendments between the members and the chair. the cause of eyes and nose. with the different intonations of the answers from different voices. The gobbling manner of the clerks in reading over the names, the tone of the speaker in announcing the vote. and the varied shades of pleasure and pain in the countenances of the members on hearing it.
would form a fine subject for a descriptive poem.
Some nights he returned to his lodgings so exhausted he could barely crawl up the stairs. In the winter of 1848, At the age of eighty, at the end of After 17 years in the Congress, Adams collapsed at his desk. A brass plate and the floor of Statuary Hall marks the place. He was carried to the Speaker's office, and there, two days later, he died. At the end, Henry Clay, in tears, was holding his hand.
Congressman Lincoln helped with the funeral arrangements. Daniel Webster wrote the inscription for the casket. And a terrific job on the editing of this story and curation by Reagan Habib. And you've been listening to David McCullough. who in nineteen eighty nine addressed Congress, To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the first meeting of Congress back in 1789.
And that first meeting took place not in Washington, DC. But in New York City, And then the most poignant part of that story. is the part about John Quincy Adams. And what a life lived. I mean to have experienced what he experienced so young In June of seventeen seventy five, This small boy, McCullough said, with his mother, stood on a distant knoll and watch the battle of Bunker Hill.
talk about being born. Into Well let's just say a real legacy. and how his life ended? In the winter of 1848, after seventeen years in Congress at the age of eighty, Adams collapses at his desk. A brass plate in the floor.
of Statuary Hall marks the spot. He was carried to the Speaker's office, and there, two days later, he died. The story of John Quincy Adams here. on our American stories. Lee Habib here again, and I'd like to encourage you to subscribe to our podcast.
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