. >> speaking of predecessors, paul wrote what role did john quincy adams have in the development of the constitutionalism? >> that is a good and very important question. so, it was john quincy adams who plays a peculiar role because as far as i can tell, he's the only american statesman whoever argued that it was illegal for belligerents to abolish our emancipated slaves. he said this in the negotiations of the ending of the war of 1812 when he was secretary of state. that was inconsistent with the history that the united states already had of the emancipation going from the revolution to the treaties of paris and both acknowledged it was legitimate to emancipate the slaves during wartime. it was john quincy adams who in the 1840s when he turned to congress as a representative from massachusetts the constitution doesn't allow for the federal government in peacetime to interfere in the state but if there is a war, it is perfectly legitimate under the law and the clause to offer emancipation to slaves in order to suppress an insurrection. that doctrine migrates from his mouth into the

and john quincy adams. my daughter, this is random, patsy, martha, all of us engaging theater and several of the dinners that you and your husband provided. that beautiful hotel where you lived in paris. our children were very fortunate. and, turn was some disengaging, if you will have both correspondence and friendly association during the two terms. well, john quincy adams did come to visit had to presidents house. when a more remarkable boy he is. i must tell you, that boy has more knowledge universally than anyone that could possibly think of. he should make a very fine chief magistrate someday. it's my opinion, oh yes. your next question. >> as you all have mentioned, favor of mrs. adams, he traveled to england together mr. jefferson, and lived in new york at the same time while both of you were serving in the u.s.. can you tell us some of the highlights of your times together. your taste and the arts and what is it? >> remember when we were all together in london and we decided that mr. adams and myse

well now john quincy adams did come to visit at the president's house. what a roast remarkable boy. he is. i must tell you that that boy has more knowledge universal than anyone i can possibly think of he should make a very fine chief magistrate someday is my opinion. oh, yes. your next question is super. your friendship, of course as you all have mentioned included mrs. adams husband, john you traveled through england together mr. jefferson then lived in new york at the same time while both of you were serving in the us government. can you tell us some of the highlights of your times together? did you share tastes in the arts and literature? remember when we were all together in london and we decided that mr. adams and myself should have our portraits painted by brown mather brown. i'll never forget that setting. and then we exchange the portraits one to the other. i believe you still have my portrait that you'll be beautiful homepage field. yes, and that you should mention a portraits and the like it was a portrait of mr. adams that i first saw when i was coming to england to join

probably would be able to. >> we are about to turn to audience questions but i have to ask, not john quincy adamsaughter] >> i guess so. john quincy, he did grow up with his father but he was a little young when he started, still ten or 11 with his father so i don't count him, he's too young. >> the roger of the founding fathers. [laughter] >> we could probably talk all night but let's get some audience t questions, how do you see marshall's personality with the heavy guy, probably easy to look at this guy and say he's a lawyer and very serious. >> he was one of the greatie partiers so they did a thing called writing circuit, each had certain states, he had north carolina and virginia so he was at raleigh, the capitol with 700 people. can you imagine the capitol 700 people? he got to raleigh, each night he would go to the same pub no the same people and the big drink of the time, i don't think of team, is awh fortified one but marshal had a club in richmond, if you a pull and not a horseshoe but a circular thing with the hole in the middle and that was his thing. he was also, when he recorded his

[laughter] 's event to bill that jen said maybe was the second not gratian, john quincy adams, andrew jackson first or second time, there's a good chance this thing was that it inauguration since marshall did so many of them. he met so many of our conservator noted when he was analyzing the robe is there is hair pop made in quite a bit of sweat that is exit contributed to some of the deterioration of the robe. it was definitely worn. >> golly, that is really cool. thank you very much as both you for coming and joining us this evening until the summer but the marshal house and the robe. that's pretty neat i would like to see that in person someday. >> i can tell you when. >> stout just announced on april 15 will be having a virtual unveiling. the robust x return to the john marshall house on april 15 will be sending out if you go ahead and follows on any of our platforms will be sending out announcement so you can see it. suspect that's great. every would synchronize your watches. thanks kevin, jen, thanks so much. >> absolutely. >> that was terrific. now my pleasure to welcome to the

douglas was familiar with john quincy adams loss statement -- john quincy adams's statement who said to southerners, if we keep being belligerent, there will be a civil war. if there is a civil war, the constitution allows under its war power clause the congress and the president the power to end slavery constitutionally. for frederick douglass, slavery itself represented a state of war. he believed that because of slavery representing a state of war, he called for the immediate end of slavery even before the actual war broke out because, in his mind, for constitutional reasons. douglas said, immediately after fort sumter, he started calling on the president and sending his newspaper to the white house saying, in slavery, that will be the quickest way to end the war because the slaves constitute the stomach of the rebellion. unless you emancipate the slaves, 4 million blacks, roughly one third of the southern states, are aiding and abetting the confederacy. they are feeding the confederates. they are building worlds -- roads for them. they are building fortifications and trenches. if

come from to begin with mexico gained its independence from spain the united states president john quincy adams sends the first ambassadors to mexico and the mexican government thinks we are going to have a real brotherhood here. they are a little ahead of us but this will be a wonderful thing. the american investors had only one question. how much of mexican territory, which was currently 1.7 million square miles all the way up to what it is now wyoming. how much of that would mexico like to sell to the united states. and a week later and mexican government report suggested, predicted that america attends to consume this country one way or another. today things got off to a bad start. it didn't improve much. we've got a situation where we got almost 2000 mile border people on both sides take advantage of the difficulty in keeping track of who's going in and out. there's a lot of violence theft, assault, cattle rustling from both sides. each country is convinced the other one is the bad one. mexico is having so many internal problems. we are talking 40 presidential administrations and 53 years

maybe john quincy adams, but no one i mean roosevelt speaks multiple languages, we forget that you know as one of the audience pointed out, he wrote multiple books. he wrote more correspondence than any president. he wrote a hundred and fifty thousand letters in his time. i mean the next near president is is jefferson who writes about 20,000 man. i don't know how many emails are swirling around nowadays, but 150,000 letters is an awful lot. he's a he's an inspirational character for a lot of those reasons, but to be frank he does have his flaws as well and they're worth exploring because as you said and that humanizes him, none of us are perfect. are we not not any of us i was after i left the white house a fellow at the kennedy school institute of politics at harvard and i took us through the archives and they have a letter from president roosevelt to the president of harvard complaining that his son won't be home at the lake this summer and we really must have our son home part of the family we did and it's an absolutely and it's on white house stationary to president harvard. do you

reporter: not an incredibly personable or colorful character in the sense, not somebody like john quincy adams his diaries or letters overflow with personality. he deserves his reputation but fascinating in a different way. goes back to a quote that i used to explain why i wrote this book in david potter's book the impending crisis which i read in graduate school. in that book he describes calhoun as the most majestic champion of error and i was an english major at clemson and if you read milton's poem, satan is the most interesting figure in the poem. i was fascinated with that description as somebody who's brilliant and some of the arguments he made were about slavery reprehensible in his constitutional theory potentially destructive but literary, dramatic, idea of him as a topic of biography. when i regretted being drawn to him in that way. a personality like john c calhoun, the initial thing that drew me, started to figure out parts of him that you can see through the chinks in the armor especially when he wouldespete to his children. incredibly warm, overindulgent father, what you couldn'

john quincy adams want to go he wanted to go to harvard. his mother has a different sense of obligations, here is a piece of what she wrote. these are the times it was a genius would wish to live. it is not in the stone column of life the great characters have formed, the habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties, contending with difficulties and great necessities call out great virtues inform the character of the hero and statesman. i put the question to you, if you got a letter like that from your mother what would you do? he would get on the boat. you know you would. the character of the hero and statesman is forged in the fires of a great contest. a great difficulty in the crucible of war, and war has come upon them. with a reliance on providence we pledged our lives and fortunes and our sacred honor. the greatest political revolution for human freedom in the history of the world has begun. thanks for listening to that, let us introduce our all-star panel. the man by the penalty join us, i at least get to mode

they are in the hand of john quincy adams, and it records their names other dates, and this is really very important for silhouettes. because silhouette do not give you a lot of information. unlike the portrait or the painted portrait, that we have up on the screen right next to the silhouette. the painted portrait fills in a lot of information on what the silhouette looks like. but with the silhouette you only have the outer outline of it so the inscription is very helpful. these silhouettes are suspended in the adams family, so it's a very nice way of understanding both public portraiture, in the form of a beautiful painting like this by charles robert leslie. he was an artist, he was born in colonial america. colonial british america. traveled to london, and studied at the royal academy under benjamin west. another expatriate colonial. who is teaching painting their. and, a painting like this really shows, louisa adams, in a very regal way. where the silhouette is much more intimate, and it would've been a object only seen by family, as opposed to the formal portrait, which we have

congressman particularly thought it might become an antislavery institution so eventually though john quincy adams who was in the house of representatives punched it through and in 1846, they created the smithsonian institution and this the castle was started and it was completed in 1855. this is smithson's tomb right here that was brought here in the early part of the 20th century. and he's not up here. he's not in here. he's actually down here. very is he's in there? just his bones are in there when he was brought over it was in the regents had been notified that this protestant cemetery that smithson had been buried in in 1829 was going to be on earth because it sat on top of the stone quarry and they needed to extend the sea wall. so they notified our board of regions and on our board of regents at the time was alexander graham bell. who took it upon himself to convince his fellow board members that we need to bring james smithson's bones here his body here, even though smithson had never visited this country and his lifetime had no close friends that we know of and no acquaintances. so yeah,

sure, it is not incredibly personable or colorful character in the sense that he's not somebody john quincy adams who has died dyer's letters overflow with information. it's a . cerebral real personality but always found him fascinating in a different way and it goes back to a call that i ran into that i used to explain what ever this book against back to quote david potter's book, the impending crisis. and i read in graduate school. and in the book, he described "calhoun" as the most majestic champion since elton. [inaudible]. and as we know i was an english mentor and it was the poem and is the most interesting thing in the poem. i was fascinated the description of somebody and somebody being brilliant and and yet some of the arguments that he made were obviously about slavery reprehensible and constitutional theories articulate destructive. and i it was just kind of a literary dramatic literary, idea of him that drew me to him as a topic of a biography rated there were moments in writing it when i regretted being drawn to him in that way. five or sixin years is a very lg time to spend with the

and of course john quincy adams we wake up every morning before swimming in the potomac and write classicaloems. professor myler, you have a powerful article between the states insiders of politics before the civil war which describes how the central question of whether we the people are united from the declaration or whether at the time of the declaration they consist of the people of several states. is reflected in the literature of the period. tell us about some of the books and novels that reflect the debate about who is a sovereign with people united states. prof. moyler: i would just put another that piece originated in a another program. so thank you for that as well. so, part of what i am talking about and that piece is how this writing winds up becoming important after to follow. what happens is in the early 19th century, autograph collection becomes a big phenomenon. it takes over about the thoughts of the history of the declaration. people are trying to regret autographs. at the same time, there is a contest about how those signatures are going to be represented on printed versio

thomas jefferson used this plant, abraham lincoln used it, john quincy adams used it, bill clinton used george bush used it, barack obama used it. you know, it's -- zero dead. look up the statistics. you know, tobacco, 480,000 dead americans last year. 17,000 babies died in their mother's womb because of tobacco. another 56,000 died from secondhand smoke. look at how many people died from marijuana smoke. zero. and they want to tell us this is about safety? these marijuana laws are not about safety. they're about profit and control. the american people are starting to see that. we're changing the marijuana laws in this country. and the people in power don't like it. >> and greg, colorado is one of the first states. and what has been the benefit and what have been some of the pitfalls of legalizing marijuana in colorado? >> i don't see any. >> okay. so what are the benefits? >> the benefits, our prison populations are down. our arrest records are down. the courts are unfilled. americans get to make a choice based on what they believe is best for them, like me, you know, i'm in my 60s, an

douglass was very familiar with john quincy adams' statement in 1836, stood up in congress and said to southerners, if you keep being belligerent there's going to be a civil war and if there's a civil war the constitution allows under its war power clause the congress and president to end slavery constitutionally. for frederick douglass, slavery itself represented a state of war, and he believed that because slavery represented a state of war, he called for the immediate end of slavery, even before the actual war broke out, because in his mind for constitutional reasons. and douglass said after -- immediately after fort sumner, said end slavery to end the war because slaves constitute the stomach of the rebellion. unless you emancipate the slaves, 4 million blacks, 1/3 of the southern states are aiding and abetting the confederacy. feeding them, building roads and fortifications and trenches for them. if you emancipate them you'll have in theory 4 million people on the union side. lincoln ultimately came to recognize the military validity of emancipating slaves as a war measure which i

recognized that the civil this war offered a way to end slavery douglas was very familiar with john quincy. adams's statement is far back as 1836 who had in quincy adams had stood up in congress and said to southerners if you keep being belligerent, there's gonna be a civil war and if there's a civil war the constitution allows under its war power claws allows the congress and the president to end slavery constitutionally. for frederick douglass slavery itself represented a state of war and he believed that because slavery represented a state of war. he called for the immediate end of slavery even before the actual war broke out and because in his mind for constitutional reasons and douglas said after immediately after fort sumner started calling on the president sending his newspaper to the white house saying and slavery, that'll be the quickest way to end the war because this slaves constitute constitute the stomach of the rebellion. unless you emancipate the slaves four million blocks roughly one third of the southern states are aiding and abetting the confederacy. they're feeding the confederat

pitted incumbent president john quincy adams against andrew jackson slide 7, please. one of the many disputes between the candidate supporters was about which of their wives rachel jackson or louisa adams would make the better first lady. jackson supporters tried to present rachel jackson as the unassuming plain old housewife of the tennessee farmer she was hardly a plain old housewife. she had been born into a prosperous slaveholding for family from virginia. and at the time she and andrew live near nashville on a thousand acre cotton plantation where they held a hundred or so people in bondage. their land and human property together with andrew's previous military and political successes. place the jacksons squarely within the class of elites who ruled the country. but jackson supporters prefer to emphasize that his humble frontier beginning. and they apparently believed that the majority of americans voters. what prefer to have as first lady a plane housewife from tennessee. rather than a fancy slaveholding mistress or a sophisticated and experienced diplomate diplo

douglass was very familiar with john quincy adams' statement as far back as 1836, who quincy adams hadp in congress and said to sogt southerners, the president has the power to end slavery constitutionally. for frederick douglass, slavery itself represented a state of war. he believed because slavery represented a state of war, he called for the immediate end of slavery even before the actual war broke out because in his mind, for constitutional reasons. and douglass said immediately after ft. sumter, started calling on the president, sending his newspaper to the white house, saying end slavery, that will be the quickest way to end the war because the slaves constitute the stomach of the rebellion. unless you emancipate the slaves, 4 million blacks, roughly one-third of the southern states, are aiding and abetting the confederacy. they're feeding the confederates, they're building roads for them, they're building fortifications, they're building trenches for them. if you emancipate them, you'll have in theory 4 million people that will be on the union side. lincoln ultimately came to r

george washington, thomas jefferson, abraham lincoln, john quincy adams, bill clinton, george bush, barackbama. look up the statistics. tobacco, 480,000 dead americans last year. 17,000 babies died in the mother's womb because of tobacco. another 56,000 die from secondhand smoke. look at how many people died for marijuana smoke? zero. they want to tell us this is about safety? these marijuana laws are not about safety. they are about profit and control. the american people are starting to see that. we are changing the marijuana laws and the people in power don't like it. host: greg, colorado is one of the first states, and what have been the benefits and pitfalls of legalizing in colorado? caller: i don't see any. host: the benefits? caller: prison populations down, rest records down -- arrest records down, the courts are as -- courts are not as full. i don't use hard drugs. marijuana doesn't lead to harder drugs. misinformation does come lies due, propaganda does. if you want to make america a better nation, we need to get these corporations and politicians out of the way. our politicians

this into the words of abigail adams she is writing a letter to her son. john one c -- john quincy does not want to join his father on a diplomatic mission in europe during the revolutionary war. abigail adams is a patriot. here are a few lines. "my son, these are the times in which a genius would which to live. it is not in the still call --calm of life that great characters are formed. great necessities callout great borchers -- great virtues and formed the character of the hero. " if you got a letter like that from your mother, what would you do? you would get on that boat. john quincy does. the founders hammered out their constitution in philadelphia and identified certain rights as the bedrock of our democratic republic. freedom of religion. freedom of speech. freedom of the press. the right to assemble. we used to know this history and honor the men and women who made it possible. many people today are either ignorant of these facts or they do not have the guts to defend it. the crisis in our streets, our schools, is an assault on memory and a crisis of courage. that mazes vu