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Adams, Charles Francis (1807-1886, son of JQA and LCA, designated as CFA in The Adams Papers):

Opinions and Beliefs

Political

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DCA08
34-35*

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Van Buren20

DCA07
18-19*
77-78*
128*
129*
194-195*
196*
199*
204*
207*
244*
245*
279*
310*
315*
DCA08
40-41*
43*
83*
85*
87-88*
154*

slavery and abolition17

DCA01
DCA05
355*
DCA06
407-408*
DCA07
272*
274-275*
323*
358*
390*
xvii*
xviii*
DCA08
46*
50*
51*
54*
95*

attendance at Congress9

DCA01
2-7 passim
40-46 passim
51-75 passim
DCA02
22
30-41 passim
109

and JQA's quarrel with Federalists7

visits to Supreme Court6

DCA01
DCA02

controversy with France3

DCA06
82*
314*
315*

dispute with Great Britain over northeast boundaries3

DCA08
194*
196*
198*

Jackson administration3

DCA04
34*
394-395*
398*

National Republican party3

DCA05
130-131*
DCA06
99-100*
190*

temper of Great Britain3

DCA05
52-53*
277*
DCA06
120*

absolute democracy2

DCA01

Boston officials deny use of Faneuil Hall2

DCA07
353*
354*

durability of American form of government2

DCA05
52-53*
212-213*

Freemasonry2

DCA05
194*
309*

instability of public opinion2

DCA06
83*
84*

Jackson's presidency2

DCA07
143*
177*

party passions2

DCA06
234*
235*

political economy2

DCA04
78*
207*

probate law2

DCA03
12*
DCA04
44*

toryism among New Englanders2

DCA03
271*
272*

whig party2

DCA07
314*
387*

Antimasonry1

DCA07
32*

anti-Webster coalition1

DCA07
17*

Christianity, law, and violence1

DCA05
381-382*

dangers of poverty in public life1

DCA06
295-296*

debtor's law1

DCA01
273

democracy and property1

DCA05
266*

democracy and violence1

DCA05
293*

freedom and mob law1

DCA05
359-360*

French and English control of Canada1

DCA07
44*

government1

DCA08
213*

manufacturing public opinion1

DCA08
8*

Mass. political parties1

DCA08
326*

New England Federalists1

DCA04
422*

Nullification Proclamation and JQA1

DCA04
419-420*

paradox of freedom and force1

DCA04
167*

parties in power1

DCA08
43*

patriotism1

DCA05
41*

political economy as a science1

DCA05
331*

politicians1

DCA07
87*

price of free government1

DCA03
166*

protective tariff1

DCA05
19*

pseudodemocratic tendencies1

DCA07
386*

revolution and skepticism1

DCA04
29*

rewards of public life1

DCA07
271*

Southern hostility to Northerners1

DCA07
75*

Southern states and New England1

DCA04
414*

support for Harrison (1836)1

DCA07
95*

the Country's public men1

DCA06
143*

the nation and expansion1

DCA04
250*

U.S.-Canadian relations1

DCA07
34*

Webster and whig party1

DCA08
113*

Whigs and Royalists1

DCA06
167*

wildness of the age1

DCA04
89*

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