Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1884 — John Quiney Adams and His Mother. [ARTICLE]

John Quiney Adams and His Mother.

The mother of John Quincy Adams said in a letter to him, written when he was only 10 years old: “1 would rather see you in your grave than grow up a profane and graceless boy.” Not long before the death of Mr. Adams a gentleman said to him, “1 have found out what made you.” “What do you mean,” asked Mr. Adams The gentleman replied, “I have been reading the published , letters of your mother." “If,” this gentleman remarks, "I had spoken that dear name to some little boy who had been for weeks away from bis mother, his eves could not have flashed more brightly, nor his face glowed more quickly, than did the eyes of that venerable old man when I pronounced the name of his mother. He stood np, iq his peculiar manner, and Raid: ' . _ “ ‘Yes, sir; all that is good in me I owe to my makes a man fit company for himself.