How America has been "A Champion and a Vindicator" of Her Own According to Adams

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I did enjoy reading Adams speech. The speech was short and to the point making it easy to understand what Adams wanted to put across. I chose to respond to this document because it's simple to comprehend simply because it's just a speech that is written as a document making it easy to read, understand and respond. Nothing is surprising or unfamiliar with the document. This is because Adams explains how America has been good to other nations supporting them and always maintaining peace which it's not unfamiliar or untrue, it's just what America is and what America does. It's interesting how Adams praises America to be a good nation that preaches "Equal liberty, equal justice, and equal rights".[Merrill, Dennis & Thomas G. Patterson. Major Problems in American Foreign Relations. #Pg 118]
The document is a speech by the Secretary of state John Quincy Adams which he wrote as a warning and expression of his fear of what recognition could do to the United States in Latin-America and what enlarging US commitments abroad would do to the nation at home. The speech was written to the new governments so that they could understand why America hesitated in getting recognition and expanding their commitments abroad and what doing so would do the American nation (Poston). Breaking away from the Spanish rule and European intervention is what Adams was explaining why they did so and why it was necessary.[Merrill, Dennis & Thomas G. Patterson. Major Problems in American Foreign Relations. #Pg 117] [Merrill, Dennis & Thomas G. Patterson. Major Problems in American Foreign Relations.  #Pg 118]
As the topic of the speech goes," Monsters to destroy", Adams explains in depth what America has done for th...