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Excerpt from Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Vol. 6: Comprising Portions of His Diary From 1795 to 1848
Crawford to secure Parker in his interest is easily accounted for. He knows that great use may be made of him against both the President and Calhoun. Parker is deeply exasperated at the treatment he has received, and says he has been so long out of all business other than the public service, that he knows not what will become of him. But he manifests no passion; and he kept me during almost the whole of this day telling me, with an air and tone of indifference, what he knew, and intimating what he further could tell. He said he had had a very long interview with the President, in which he had ap peared to be excessively sore upon an attack on him in the New York Philosophical and Literary Repository in an anony mous paper written by Armstrong. Parker asked me if I had seen it.
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