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Jefferson Adams Athens and Sparta

“Jefferson lives,” were said to be the last words of John Adams, and they were spoken in reference to Thomas Jefferson, who had, in fact, died hours earlier. Those words were as inaccurate about Jefferson’s death as they often were about Jefferson’s life. Though Adams understood the evil in Jefferson to a degree, it was impossible for him to completely know it in his lifetime.

It is well known that the two never got along, though Adams from time to time somewhat deceived himself into thinking that they did, particularly early on in the Founding process, and later on when both were out of office in retirement. The only accurate measure of their relationship was during the major and significant middle parts of their lives, and then they were most properly bitter political and personal enemies.

As with so many great men, their personal lives were not as orderly and in control as was their public appearance. In Adams’ case one son, Charles, drinks himself to death by 30, while a daughter dies during a botched mastectomy. His other son does become President, but his presidency was an unsatisfactory one, where John Quincy Adams, basically, helped create the Civil War, not a noble thing in itself. By being a Northern hot-head on the side of abolition, he provided himself as a perfect foil for the hot-heads in the South who were on the side of slavery. Between the efforts of both lunatic camps they mortally wounded, and nearly killed, the Republic, as they did succeed magnificently in killing off the flower of both peoples, North and South in a blood letting from which we have never really recovered as a nation.

These two men presided over the Athens and Sparta feud of their day, with New England being AthensSouth Sparta, in an apt comparison. This classic divide destroyed Greek civilization, just as the North-South divide destroyed American civilization. Yet, we cannot cry over spilt milk forever, so we must move on with what we have left, ever mindful that all is in God’s hands for the final outcome. and the

The poison of the South was “Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion” as the slogan of the day well stated. It was ever the licentious Democrat against Republican Protestant Puritanism. It was the Puritans against the Church of England and Catholicism all over again. In both cases, sniffy Anglican-Episcopalians, worked quite well with overbearing and aggrieved Catholics in attempting to provide a comeuppance to the stiff necked Puritans of New England as they carried on the quarrel of 1650 back in England onward toward a near exact replay in 1850 almost exactly 200 years apart.

Jefferson was King Charles all over again with his continental pretensions, and Adams was Cromwell redux. Washington was the only hope of unity, and he must die before Jefferson could come to power. Hamilton feuded with Adams in ways that opened that door to Jefferson and started America on the road to ruining the Republic that Washington had designed. The willfulness of these men is remarkable. Though earlier Adams worked as a conciliator of North with South, he could not, and would not, be the conciliator within his own party. The party of Washington was now without Washington, and Adams’ quarrel with Hamilton undid all best hopes and delivered the Republic into the hands of its worst enemy, Jefferson.

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