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September 1, 1800
Jenks's Portland Gazette
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
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President Adams responds to an address from North Carolina citizens, reflecting on 40 years of public service with pure intentions and stating he will neither seek war for personal gain nor avoid it except on honorable terms.
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PRESIDENT ADAMS,
In an answer to a late Address from a body of citizens in the State of North Carolina, says—"For forty years, my mind has been so entirely occupied and engrossed with public cares, that I have not been able to give much attention to anything else. Whatever advantages this country may have derived from my feeble efforts, I wish they had been much greater, and less disputable. If any disadvantages have resulted from them, I hope they will be pardoned, as the effect of involuntary error—for I will be bold to say, no man ever served this country with purer intentions, or from more disinterested motives.
You may rely upon this, that, as on the one hand, I never shall love war, or seek it, for the pleasure, profit, or honor of it;—so on the other, I shall never consent to avoid it, but upon honorable terms."
In an answer to a late Address from a body of citizens in the State of North Carolina, says—"For forty years, my mind has been so entirely occupied and engrossed with public cares, that I have not been able to give much attention to anything else. Whatever advantages this country may have derived from my feeble efforts, I wish they had been much greater, and less disputable. If any disadvantages have resulted from them, I hope they will be pardoned, as the effect of involuntary error—for I will be bold to say, no man ever served this country with purer intentions, or from more disinterested motives.
You may rely upon this, that, as on the one hand, I never shall love war, or seek it, for the pleasure, profit, or honor of it;—so on the other, I shall never consent to avoid it, but upon honorable terms."
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Biography
Historical Event
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Moral Virtue
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President Adams
Public Service
North Carolina Address
War Policy
Moral Intentions
What entities or persons were involved?
President Adams
Where did it happen?
State Of North Carolina
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President Adams
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State Of North Carolina
Story Details
In response to an address from North Carolina citizens, President Adams reflects on 40 years of public service, asserts his pure and disinterested intentions, and declares his policy on war: neither seeking it for pleasure, profit, or honor, nor avoiding it except on honorable terms.