John Quincy Adams’s Paradigm of America’s Foreign Relations

Political Theory

John Quincy Adams’s Paradigm of America’s Foreign Relations

ABSTRACT

John Quincy Adams played a key role in the American transition from a noninterventionist to a more activist foreign policy, particularly in the western hemisphere. His unique career path provides us with a wide range of readings that explore how the United States asserted itself more forcefully into world affairs and the impact of those changes both in domestic American politics and internationally. We reviewed the writings of Quincy Adams in this conference as well as works from two of his followers, William Seward and James Blaine.

READING LIST

Conference Readings

Index to the executive documents of the House of Representatives for the first session of the forty-seventh Congress. United States Department of State: 1880-1881, (1881-1882).

The executive documents of the House of Representatives for the first session of the fifty-second Congress. United States Department of State: (1891-1892), 1891-1892.

Adams, John Quincy. Speech on Independence Day (July 4, 1821) [An Address, Delivered at the Request of the Committee of Arrangements for Celebrating the Anniversary of Independence]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1821.

Adams, John Quincy, “Letter to John Adams, December 21, 1817” In Writings of John Quincy Adams, Volume VI (1816-1819), edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford, 274-276. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1916.

Adams, John Quincy, “Letter to Albert Gallatin, May 19, 1818” In Writings of John Quincy Adams, Volume VI (1816-1819), edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford, 312-318. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1916.

Adams, John Quincy, “Letter to G. W. Campbell, June 28, 1818” In Writings of John Quincy Adams, Volume VI (1816-1819), edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford, 366-380. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1916.

Adams, John Quincy. “Inaugural Address, March 4, 1825.” TeachingAmericanHistory.org. http://teachingamericanhistory.org/ (August 17, 2010).

Adams, John Quincy, “Letter to Richard C. Anderson, May 27, 1823” In Writings of John Quincy Adams, Volume VII (1820-1823), edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford, 441-476. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1917.

Adams, John Quincy. Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Comprising Portions of his Diary from 1795 to 1848, Volume V. Edited by Charles Francis Adams. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1875.

Adams, John Quincy, “Letter to William Plumer, January 17, 1817” In Writings of John Quincy Adams, Volume VI (1816-1819), edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford, 139-144. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1916.

Adams, John Quincy. Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Comprising Portions of his Diary from 1795 to 1848, Volume VI. Edited by Charles Francis Adams. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1875.

Adams, John Quincy, “Letter to Hugh Nelson, April 28, 1823” In Writings of John Quincy Adams, Volume VII (1820-1823), New York: The MacMillan Company, 1917. 369-421.

Adams, John Quincy, “Letter to George William Erving, January 30, 1817” In Writings of John Quincy Adams, Volume VI (1816-1819), edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford, 155-156. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1916.

Adams, John Quincy, “Memorandum on the British offer” In Writings of John Quincy Adams, Volume VI (1816-1819), edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford, 294-296. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1916.

Adams, John Quincy, “Publius-Valerius: Serious Reflections, Addressed to the Citizens of Massachusetts, 1804” In Writings of John Quincy Adams, Volume III (1801-1810), edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford, 46-77. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1914.

Adams, John Quincy. Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Comprising Portions of his Diary from 1795 to 1848, Volume III. Edited by Charles Francis Adams. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1875.

Adams, John Quincy, “Letter to George William Erving, November 28, 1818” In Writings of John Quincy Adams, Volume VI (1816-1819), New York: The MacMillan Company, 1916. 474-502.

Adams, John Quincy. “Address on the War with Britain and Mexico (opium war), April 14, 1841.” Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, unpublished document.

Adams, John Quincy, “Letter to Richard Rush, November 30, 1823.” In Ford, Worthington Chauncey and Charles Francis Adams. John Quincy Adams: His Connection with the Monroe Doctrine (1823) and with Emancipation Under Martial Law (1819-1842) [reprinted from the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, for January 1902], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1902. 21-24.

Adams, John Quincy (April 1793), “Marcellus” In Writings of John Quincy Adams, Volume I (1779-1796), edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford, 135-146. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1913.

Blaine, James G. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume I. Norwich: The Henry Bill Publishing Company, 1884.

Ford, Worthington Chauncey and Charles Francis Adams. John Quincy Adams: His Connection with the Monroe Doctrine (1823) and with Emancipation Under Martial Law (1819-1842) [reprinted from the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, for January 1902]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1902.

Monroe, James. “Monroe Doctrine: Seventh Annual Message to Congress, December 2, 1823.” The Our Documents initiative. http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=23&page=transcript (accessed November 12, 2013).

Seward, William. “Message of the President of the United States to the two houses of Congress at the commencement of the third session of the thirty-seventh congress (1862), Volume 37.” United States Department of State, Washington, District of Columbia, August 18, 1862.

Seward, William H., “Letter to Marquis de Montholon, Feb. 12, 1866” In Works of William H. Seward, Volume V: The Diplomatic History of the War for the Union, edited by George E. Baker, 428-443. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1883.

Seward, William H., “Speeches in Mexico, Colima, October 12, 1869” In Works of William H. Seward, Volume V: The Diplomatic History of the War for the Union, edited by George E. Baker, 579-587. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1883.

Seward, William H., “Reply to Burlingame's Address, Washington, July 1868” In Works of William H. Seward, Volume V: The Diplomatic History of the War for the Union, edited by George E. Baker, 587-589. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1883.

Seward, William H., “Speech on the Darien Canal, New York, February 23, 1869” In Works of William H. Seward, Volume V: The Diplomatic History of the War for the Union, edited by George E. Baker, 589-592. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1883.

Seward, William H., “Granting Lands to Emigrants (Jan. 30, 1850)” In Works of William H. Seward, Volume I, edited by George E. Baker, 289. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1883.

Seward, William Henry. The Continental Rights and Relations of our Country, January 26, 1853 [Speech in the Senate of the United States]. Washington: Buell & Blanchard, 1853. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/mtfgc.1001 (accessed September 1, 2010).

Seward, William Henry. The Destiny of America, September 14, 1853 [Speech at the dedication of Capital University at Columbus, Ohio]. Albany: Weed, Parsons & Company, Printers, 1853. http://international.loc.gov/ (accessed September 1, 2010).