Notice of Mr. Adams Eulogium on the Life and Character of James Monroe (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Notice of Mr. Adams Eulogium on the Life and Character of James Monroe "If we owe regard to the memory of the dead, there is yet more respect to be paid to knowledge, wisdom and truth."-Johnson´s Rambler. It makes no part of our present purpose to speak of this work as a specimen of eloquence; nor (could the task be avoided) are we more disposed to pronounce on the merit or demerit, of the portrait it professes to exhibit. Eulogy, as its name sufficiently imports, is a song of praise-an effusion of fancy and friendship-an outpouring of gratitude for benefits conferred; and as such, has a strong and obvious tendency to exaggeration, in some cases, and to concealment in others. To remedy this evil, philosophy, which alone has the right of giving laws to literature, has prescribed a general rule, equally sustained by good taste and good morals; viz: that, "Pane- "gerick shall employ no misrepresentation, either in excuse, or in "praise, of its own subject, nor in censure of any other." An apparent indifference to both branches of this injunction, is the circumstance, in the work before us, which most attracts our notice, and gives rise to the following remarks. 1. At page 73 of the pamphlet, we find the disaster at Washington, in 1814, characterised as the heaviest of the war; "the "heaviest, because its remembrance must be coupled with shame." That this disaster furnishes no room for national vanity, is true-nor is it less so, that the exclusiveness of Mr Adams´ censure with regard to it, is unjust. Was there no other blot in our escutcheon, that could warm and redden the cheek of the Rhetorician? Had he forgotten, that in 1812, a strong fortification, a considerable army, and an entire territory, had been surrendered to an inferior force, without firing a gun? Bad as the disaster at Washington was, that at Detroit was worse, whether examined in relation to the extent, or duration, or character, of the evils it inflicted on individuals or the nation. Yet according to Mr. Adams´ estimate, it was only the former, that was coupled with shame-the latter, might be remembered without blushing! 2. Mr. Adams next step is to indicate the causes of thin unparalleled calamity. "It should have been remembered," says he, "that in war, heedless security on one side, stimulates to desperate "expedients on the other; and that the enterprise, surely fatal to the undertaker when encountered by precaution, becomes successful "achievement over the helplessness of neglected preparation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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