Smoke
Done here.
Adams wrote in May 1817 to Thomas Jefferson:
Two months later he wrote, also to Jefferson:
Oh! Lord! Do you think that a Protestant Popedom is annihilated in America? Do you recollect, or have you ever attended to the ecclesiastical Strifes in Maryland, Pensilvania, New York, and every part of New England? What a mercy it is that these People cannot whip and crop, and pillory and roast, as yet in the U.S.! If they could they would.
Two months later he wrote, also to Jefferson:
I cannot contemplate human Affairs without laughing or crying. I choose to laugh. When People talk of the Freedom of Writing Speaking or thinking, I canot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
