The National Republican And Ohio Political Register

From the Boston Statesman.

Changing work, or 'you scratch my back and I will tickle your elbow.'

At the public entertainment given on the occasion of the examination of our schools last year, John Quincy Adams complimented Josiah Quincy, as 'being the worthy representative of Josiah Quincy of the revolution;' and at the same celebration this year, Josiah Quincy complimented John Quincy Adams as 'a descendant from the pilgrims of New England—a just representative of their virtues.' It is worthy of remark to see these two men puffing each other—men who are cousins by consanguinity and brothers in principle. The one called the illustrious Jefferson the Islam of democracy—the other moved his impeachment before Congress; the one during the late war, while he was receiving FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR ONE YEAR'S SERVICES, called our government "weak and penurious," and the other at the same time proclaimed that it was "unbecoming a moral and religious people to rejoice in our victories"—men who have gone hand in hand in vilifying republicanism, and decrying republican principles—who in turn have lost their popularity, and then assumed "the parti-colored garments of democracy" for the purpose of gaining power,—and when they had gained it, no matter how, boldly announced a political regeneration, that the men and principles which fell with the first Adams, should rise with the second. Such has been the conduct of these two men, who now preposterously claim for each other, the virtues and good character of the pilgrims and patriots.