Not even a gallant like John Quincy Adams, who was able to see nothing attractive in the little band of reformers.

They seemed to him, in fact, "a small, shallow, and enthusiastic party preaching the abolition of slavery upon the principles of extreme democracy." If Mr.Adams had little love for the South, he had none whatever for the Abolitionists.

By no stretch of the imagination could he have been suspected of any sentimental attachment to the Abolition movement.

For his unvarying attitude towards it was one of grim contempt.

But if the old Roman had no love for the Abolitionists, he did have a deep-seated attachment and reverence for certain ancient rights appertaining to free institutions, which nothing was able to shake.