1From John Adams to Charles Greely Loring, 18 July 1821 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind and friendly letter of the 7th. for which I thank you—and much more for the oration which accompanied it—which I have read with great pleasure the composition is very eloquent though very neat and simple without the least affectation—The sentiments are such as good give offence to no honest American—and the glow of Patriotism with which the f elicity of our Country is...