John Brummett in his article, “Praying for Bachmann’s America,” Arkansas News Bureau, July 18, 2011 notes:
Speaking of incredibly ridiculous things, she said in another television interview that she had been right to assert that our founding fathers fought tirelessly against slavery. She cited John Quincy Adams, a little boy and teen in revolutionary days. Again, to extend the generosity of doubt: Perhaps she simply can’t admit when she is spectacularly wrong.
If there is any doubt about John Quincy Adams being one of the most amazing patriots our country has ever seen then take a moment and view the video clip above by David Barton. John Quincy Adams was the U.S. Ambassador to Russia at age 14!!! He was living in the White House with his father in 1801.
David Barton in a fine article on what the founding fathers believed concerning slavery provided a lot of insightful quotes. John Quincy Adams asserted:
The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented by all the southern patriots of the Revolution; by no one with deeper and more unalterable conviction than by the author of the Declaration himself [Jefferson]. No charge of insincerity or hypocrisy can be fairly laid to their charge. Never from their lips was heard one syllable of attempt to justify the institution of slavery. They universally considered it as a reproach fastened upon them by the unnatural step-mother country [Great Britain] and they saw that before the principles of the Declaration of Independence, slavery, in common with every other mode of oppression, was destined sooner or later to be banished from the earth. Such was the undoubting conviction of Jefferson to his dying day. In the Memoir of His Life, written at the age of seventy-seven, he gave to his countrymen the solemn and emphatic warning that the day was not distant when they must hear and adopt the general emancipation of their slaves. 5
Maybe Bachmann has been reading more American history than Brummett thinks.
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