The ex-President, I think about the year 1832, published a pamphlet in which he savagely attacked the Masonic Order.

He met Mr.Hoar in Boston and asked him what he thought of it.

Mr.Hoar answered: "It seems to me, Mr.Adams, there is but one thing in the world sillier than Masonry.

That is Anti-Masonry." Mr.Hoar used to relate with some amusement a dialogue he had with a shrewd and witty old lawyer named Josiah Adams, who shared the old Federalist dislike of his namesake, John Quincy Adams.

My father was talking quite earnestly in a gathering of Middlesex lawyers and said: "I believe John Quincy Adams means to be a Christian." "When ?" inquired Josiah.
But I cannot draw the portraiture of this noble and stately figure.