Orations
Orations
by John Quincy Adams
"The Jubilee of the Constitution, delivered at New York, April 30, 1839, before the New York Historical Society."
Fellow-Citizens and Brethren, Associates of the New York Historical Society:
Would it be an unlicensed trespass of the imagination to conceive that on the night preceding the day of which you now commemorate the fiftieth anniversary--on the night preceding that thirtieth of April, 1789, when from the balcony of your city hall the ch ...