[Footnote 1:  In the message of President Monroe to Congress at the commencement of the session of 1823-24, the following passage occurs:—­“In the wars of the European powers, in matters relating to themselves, we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.  It is only when our rights are invaded, or seriously menaced, that we resent injuries or make preparations for defence.  With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers.  The political system of the Allied Powers is essentially different, in this respect, from that of America.  This difference proceeds from that which exists in their respective governments.  And to the defence of our own, which has been achieved by the loss of so much blood and treasure, and matured by the wisdom of their most enlightened citizens, and under which we have enjoyed such unexampled felicity, this whole nation is devoted.  We owe it, therefore, to candor, and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers, to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.  With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power, we have not interfered, and shall not interfere.  But with the governments who have declared their independence and maintained it, and whose independence we have on great consideration and on just principles acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States.”]

[Footnote 2:  Mr. Markley.]

[Footnote 3:  Mr. Canning.]

[Footnote 4:  Mr. Brougham.]

ADAMS AND JEFFERSON.

DISCOURSE IN COMMEMORATION OF THE LIVES AND SERVICES OF JOHN ADAMS AND THOMAS JEFFERSON, DELIVERED IN FANEUIL HALL, BOSTON, ON THE 2D OF AUGUST, 1826.

[Since the decease of General Washington, on the 14th of December, 1799, the public mind has never been so powerfully affected in this part of the country by any similar event, as by the death of John Adams, on the 4th of July, 1826.  The news reached Boston in the evening of that day.  The decease of this venerable fellow-citizen must at all times have appealed with much force to the patriotic sympathies of the people of Massachusetts.  It acquired a singular interest from the year and the day on which it took place;—­the 4th of July of the year completing the half-century from that ever memorable era in the history of this country and the world, the Declaration of Independence; a measure in which Mr. Adams himself had taken so distinguished a part.  The emotions of the public were greatly increased by the indications