Chapter 8 Act 6 The Trial of Adams Jr.

The scene is the same as Act 1. God Li: (Stands up, knocks the gavel) Now announce the opening of the sixth court of the "Last Judgment" (sit down).The defendants are John Quincy Adams (John Quincy Adams) and Adams Jr., the sixth president of the United States. (Little Adams stands up.) God Lee: You are Adams Jr., born in 1767. Your father, President Adams, is 32 years younger than you and the sixth president of the United States. Adams Jr.: Yes. God Lee: Because your father is the second president, your sixth president is called Adams Jr.Your family background can be said to be prominent for 5 generations. Both generations of your father and son were presidents, the third generation was the minister to the UK under President Lincoln, the fourth generation was two historians, and the fifth generation was President Hoover’s navy. minister.

Little Adams: Thank God Lee for being so precious to me.What else do you know about me? God Lee: Knowing you is too much.I know that when you were 14, you went backstage and fell in love with that Parisian lover.Her name is Bois de Boulogne. Adams Jr.: (blushing) When God Lee said the name, I must admit that God Lee knew everything about me. God Li: This is the "final judgment". Only by knowing everything can we judge everything and convince the defendant.Two days before you died of a stroke on February 23, 1848 (Note: Baidu Encyclopedia said it was a heart attack), you said "This is the end of earth" (This is the end of earth). What did you say next? But I am calm" (but I am composed.) or "I am content." (I am content.), everyone can't hear clearly.Is it "calm" or "satisfied"?

Little Adams: Both "calm" and "satisfied", what am I not "calm" or "satisfied"?I have served as a minister to the Netherlands, Prussia, Russia, and the United Kingdom, as a secretary of state, and as a member of the two houses of parliament. I have spent decades in my life proving that the United States wants me, and I want the United States. I am both "calm" and "satisfy". God Li: I don't think you are "calm" or "satisfied" enough. As long as you think of someone, you will feel uncomfortable. Jr. Adams: Who?

God Lee: "Old Walnut" (Hickory)! Jr. Adams: (angry) Oh, that "savage" (savage)! Jackson: (jumps up) What?You say I am a "barbarian", this "barbarian" will fight you! God Li: (Press down with your hand repeatedly) Sit down, sit down, how many times have you dueled in your life, isn't that enough? Jackson: (sitting down angrily) This boy used public funds to install gambling tables in the presidential palace, secretly supported the monarchy, falsely reported expenditures, and even provided women to the Russian tsar! God Li: (Laughing, pressing down with his hand repeatedly) Okay, okay, you have brought the bottom up like this, and your American president is no good man. (Turning to Young Adams) You call Jackson a savage?Don't forget what people say about you, people say you are "an unsocial savage" (an unsocial savage), probably the two former US presidents before and after you are both savage by nature!

Little Adams: Of course he was savage, and he also played duels, and he killed the opponent in the duel. God Lee: In "Corrupt Bargain", your Secretary of State Henry Cray also played a duel, but his marksmanship was so bad that no one was killed. Little Adams: Why did God Lee also say "dirty deal"?That was Jackson's slander. God Lee: Isn't it dirty?When you elected president, Jackson won 99 electoral votes, you only got 84, and Clay got 37. It was obviously Jackson who won the game, but Clay made a private deal with you, and he turned to you in exchange for the Secretary of State. Let Jackson get more electoral votes but lose the election. You become the first "minority president" of the United States. "The people have been cheated." The democracy and democracy that you Americans are proud of are so "dirty"!

Adams Jr.: Is it fair to say that in general terms? God Lee: I can be more specific. In the election of 1824, no candidate received an absolute majority.According to the 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the House of Representatives should choose one of the three candidates with the highest votes to be the President of the United States.And since William H. Crawford, the third highest voter, is ill, only Jackson and you Adams are left.At this time, the fourth-eldest Clay, who lost the election, became a key figure in this competition, because he was the speaker of the House of Representatives, and he had considerable influence on the results of the House of Representatives' deliberations.In the House of Representatives, Adams got 13 votes, Jackson got 7 votes, and Crawford got 4 votes.You Adams was elected as the new president.At the beginning, Jackson reluctantly admitted that the House of Representatives caused this violation of the electoral votes, because after all, he won more than half of the electoral votes in 11 of the 24 states, but then as soon as you became president, you appointed When Clay became Secretary of State, Jackson became popular. The accusations of "dirty dealing" and "people being cheated" followed you all the way.You are the first "minority president" in American history who was elected president with only 30% of the popular vote, while Jackson's vote was as high as 42%.He has more votes than you, so he cannot be elected. The so-called American-style democracy is nothing but Nair.I said this, is it still general?

Jr. Adams: I hope God Lee understands that Jackson is hot-tempered, uneducated, and unsuitable for the presidency. The contribution of the country is nothing but a set of sneaky tricks, which is undemocratic.He can't talk about political achievements, his political achievements are "party spoils system" (spoils system). God Lee: The key point is that Jackson's political achievements are the improvement of Jackson's democratic politics and the decline of privileges.Later, the period from the War of 1812 to the Civil War was called the "Age of Jackson".During this period, the status of the common people rose significantly.And Jackson's own example can also show that any American man can be elected as the leader. According to the Chinese, this is called "everyone can be Yao and Shun".And you, as described by that Pennsylvania senator in 1827, were educated in monarchism, always hostile to public government, and you pretended to be a republican for the sole purpose of corrupting and belittling the Democratic Party; Changes to the U.S. Constitution paved the way for an attempt to eventually establish an aristocratic and hereditary government in the United States.These words are not all aimless, right?In short, compared to Jackson, your kind of democracy is too undemocratic. It turns out that American democracy is fake.We see the template in you, don't we, John the Second?

Adams Jr.: I lived to be 80 years old and served consecutively among the first 11 presidents of the United States. Are my efforts just a role model? God Lee: There’s nothing wrong with being a model, like you ended up in the Senate for 17 years, being an “Old Man Eloquent” and fighting alone, on anti-slavery and against “the gag rule” On, history affirms you.But don't these records of yours just contradict the inhumanity and lack of freedom of your United States?Also, from your standpoint of so-called justice, it is also strange that, as you opposed the incorporation of Texas into the United States, the key point was the question of slavery, not aggression, and you stated that you were convinced that slavery was It is a crime in the eyes of God, but does God approve of your American invasion of Mexico?After Jefferson expanded the territory of the United States, he had vigorously imagined that the United States would one day be so large that it could cover all of North America, if not South America.And you, you say that the holy heaven seems destined to make North America inhabited by one nation.You are more imperialist than Jefferson!

Little Adams: In fact, I am very common people. God Lee: Can you correctly identify 11 of the 14 Madeira white wines? Can ordinary people do it?You installed the first pool table in the White House, can civilians do it?You are the first one to take a photo, can civilians do it?It seems that you are super-civilian, that is, you like to swim naked, but the common people will not meet the female reporter Anne Royal (Anne Royal) to visit when they are naked swimming, so you will always be the nobleman among the common people up. Little Adams: (with a wry smile) Oh. God Lee: Alright, this court is over. In the next court, I will interrogate Jackson, who is neither noble nor Harvard.Retire from the court (beat the mallet and stand up).

(The curtain falls.)