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tion to Him who hath endowed
them with these capacities and
elevated them in the scale of ex
istence by these distinctions: *
* * *' as It is likewise a plain
dictate of duty and a strong senti
ment of imminent danger earnest
and particular supplications should
be made to Him who is able to
defend or to destroy: * * * * ”
And he concludes:
"And I do also recommend that
with these acts of humiliation,
penitence, and prayer fervent
thanksgiving to the Author of AH
Good be united for the countless
favors which He is still continuing
to the people of the United States,
and which render their condition
as a nation eminently happy com
pared with the lot of others.”
There are many other writings
betraying the strong Hebraic
strain which John Adams had
learned from his ancestors in
Puritan New England. In care
fully reading the quotations above,
taken from his Proclamations and
Speeches, it is not difficult to vis
ualize the aristocrat, the scholar,
the statesman, the brilliant orator,
whom we know as John Adams, as
the same personality who uttered
the above sentiments, which are
essentially and inherently Hebraic
and Judaic in thought and compo
sition.
The depth of the Hebraic influ
ence on President Adams leads to
the conclusion that his knowledge
about Jews and Judaism was more
than superficial as one would real
ize when reading the President’s
letter, which was sent from
Quincy, Mass., on February 16th,
1809, to F. A. Vanderkamp, in
which he says:
“The two most powerful, active
and enterprising nations that ever
existed are now contending with
us. The two nations, to whom
mankind are under more obliga
tions for the progress of science
and civilization than to any other
except the Hebrews. This consid
eration affects me more than the
danger from either or both. 1 ex
cepted the Hebrews for in spite
of Bolingbroke and Voltaire, I will
insist that the Hebrews have done
more to civilize men than any
other nation. If I were an atheist,
and believed in blind eternal fate,
I should still believe that fate had
ordained the Jews to be the most
essential instrument for civilizing
nations. If I were an atheist of
the other sect, who believe or pre
tend to believe, that all Is ordained
by chance, I should still believe
that chance had ordered the Jews
to preserve and propagate to all
mankind the doctrine of a supreme
intelligent, wise, almighty Sov
ereign of the universe, which I be
lieve to be the great essential
principle of all morality and con
sequently of all civilization.”
He expresses himself similarly
in a letter addressed to Mordecai
M. Noah which is to be found in
the latter’s book entitled, “Travels
in England, France, Spain and the
Barbary Lands.”
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