contempt upon all the objects most dear to his heart, thought it expedient to hold the following language :
** Mr. Adams on all occasions we beheve, has been open, pure, and uncontaminated, as single-hearted as a child, or an angel."
American citizens, in Great Britain, were publicly in- vited by the American Minister, lately engaged in con- ducting the Mexican war as one of Mr. Polk's cabinet, to pay honors to the memory of John Quincy Adams : "A patriot, always loving his country above all lands of the earth," and this notwithstanding he was " a Mexican Whig." Pubhc honors were paid to him even by the army in Mexico, although, if the assertions of some of its officers were true, he was a " knave" and a " traitor at heart."
A committee from the House of Representatives, of one from each State, attended the corpse from the capitol in Washington to the tomb in Quincy. The funeral cortege in its progress, was everywhere met by large concourses of citizens, municipal officers, and detachments of militia. The whole American people, as with one voice, acknow- ledged and deplored the departure of a great and virtuous patriot.