gmertca, , ?|emp, an& JUapoleon - Vote Hemp

America, Russia, Hemp,and NapoleonJohn Quincy Adams was better equipped than most men towithstand the onslaught of tragedy, but he was also human. H ewas a Puritan, but not a stone statue. In the latter weeks of thesummer of 1812, Adams did not devote the usual portion of hismind and energy to his duties as United States minister.Louisa Adams, hisfirst daughter, his only daughter, wasdying. She did so slowly, painfully, calling up resonances ofagony in the hearts of her parents.Th e Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be thename of the Lord. At twenty-five minutes past one this morningexpired m y daughter, Louisa Catherine, as lovely aninfant as ever breathed the air of Heaven. It becomes m e notto murmu r at the dispensations of divine Providence. Believingin the existence of another and a better world than this, Ihumbly trust in the hope that her agonies, long and severe asthey were, have atoned for all the imperfections of her nature,derived from earthly parents, and that her transition from thepangs of death to the bliss of Heaven was instantaneous andcomplete. 26Tw o days later she was buried in an English churchyard onthe Wasili-Ostroh. Th e inscription on her gravestone read:Louisa Catherine Adams: Born 12 August 1811Died 15 September 1812. Aged 13 months and 3 days. 27Louisa's was not the only death that distracted Adams fromHarris' peculations in the summer of 1812. She had had butthree months to live when the wars of 1812 began, and themounting lists of casualties and atrocities reduced any sinHarris might commit to inconsequentiality.In England the economic crisis, aggravated by America's242