[18] The _Social Compact_, etc., etc. (Providence, 1842). p. 24. [19] See Pickering's _Letter to Governor Sullivan, on the Embargo_. Boston, 1808. John Quincy Adams's _Letter to the Hon. H. G. Otis_, etc. Boston, 1808. Pickering's _Interesting Correspondence_, 1808. _Review of the Correspondence between the Hon. John Adams and the late William Cunningham_, etc. 1824. But see, also, Mr. Adams's "Appendix" to the above letter, published _sixteen_ years after the vote on the embargo. Baltimore, 1824. Mr. Pickering's _Brief Remarks on the Appendix_. August, 1824. [20] Reference is here made to British "_Orders in Council_" of Nov. 22d, 1807. They were not officially made known to the American Congress till Feb. 7th, 1808. They were, however, published in the National Intelligencer, the morning on which the Message was sent to the Senate, Dec. 18th, 1807, but were not mentioned in that document, nor in the debate. [21] I copy this from the first letter of Mr. Pickering. Mr. Adams wrote a letter (to H. G. Otis) in reply to this of Mr. Pickering, but said nothing respecting the words charged upon him; but in 1824, in an appendix to that letter, he denies that he expressed the "sentiment" which Mr. Pickering charged him with. But he _does not deny the words themselves_. They rest on the authority of Mr. Pickering, his colleague in the Senate, a strong party man, it is true, perhaps not much disposed to conciliation, but a man of most unquestionable veracity. The "sentiment" speaks for itself. [22] Adams's _Remarks in the House of Representatives_, Jan. 5, 1846. [23] _Correspondence between the Hon. John Adams and the late William Cunningham, Esq._ Boston, 1823, Letter xliii. p. 150. [24] March 15th, 1826. [25] See Mr. Adams's _Message_, Dec. 2, 1828. The exact sum was $1,197,422.18. [26] See Mr. Clay's Letter to Mr. A. H. Everett, April 27th, 1825; to Mr. Middleton, respecting the intervention of the Emperor of Russia, May 10th, and Dec. 26th, 1825; to Mr. Gallatin, May 10th, and June 19th, 1826, and Feb. 24th, 1827. _Executive Documents_, Second Session of the 20th Congress, Vol. I. [27] Report of Mr. Adams's _Lecture on the Chinese War_, in the Boston Atlas, for Dec. 4th and 5th, 1841. [28] Genesis i. 26-28. [29] Psalms ii. 6-8. [30] See Mr. Adams's _Speech on Oregon_, Feb. 9th, 1846. Arguments somewhat akin to this, may be found also in the oration delivered at Newburyport, before cited. [31] _Address on breaking ground for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal._ [32] _Jubilee of the Constitution_, p. 99. [33] _Lecture on China._ [34] See his defence of this in his _Address to his Constituents at Braintree_, Sept. 17th, 1842. Boston, 1842, p. 56, _et seq._