9 Peacefield

Chapter 9 Peacefield Abigail and John were so happy to be home. They took great pleasure in running the farm. They were surrounded by friends and relatives and grandchildren. There were often as many as twenty people living with them! John and Abigail loved the commotion. On Sundays Abigail cooked a big dinner. For a while all of their grandchildren were living with them except for John Quincy Adams's child. That was because John Quincy was serving as minister to Russia. Abigail didn't like for her son to be so far away, and she was afraid of never seeing him again. It was 1809, and James Madison was president. Abigail wrote to President Madison saying that John Quincy wanted to come home. President Madison wisely

阿比盖尔和约翰回到家非常高兴。 他们以经营农场为乐。 他们被朋友、亲戚和孙子孙女们包围着。 经常有多达20个人和他们住在一起！约翰和阿比盖尔喜欢这种骚动。 星期天阿比盖尔做了一顿丰盛的晚餐。 有一段时间，除了约翰·昆西·亚当斯的孩子，他们所有的孙子都和他们住在一起。 那是因为约翰·昆西当时是驻俄公使。 阿比盖尔不喜欢儿子在这么远的地方，她害怕再也见不到他了。 那是1809年，詹姆斯·麦迪逊是美国总统。 阿比盖尔写信给麦迪逊总统，说约翰·昆西想回家。 麦迪逊总统很明智

told her that he wouldn't bring John Quincy home unless he heard so from John Quincy himself! Although practically the entire Adams family was together, the happy times did not last. Abigail's dear sister Mary and her husband died. John Quincy in Russia had a one-year-old daughter who died. Now all of Abigail and John's children had lost children of their own. Worst of all for Abigail, Nabby developed breast cancer. She had surgery without any anesthesia. The pain must have been almost unbearable. How hard for Abigail to watch her daughter suffer. Nabby spent a year at Peacefield getting better. Then she moved to New York. In time, the breast cancer came back. Terribly weak, Nabby made the trip back to Peacefield and died there. She was forty-eight years old. Losing her dear daughter and companion was heartbreaking. Nabby's death aged Abigail greatly. People said she became an old woman. Sometimes it was hard for her to write because the pain in her hands hurt so much. Abigail complained that her memory was

告诉她他不会带约翰·昆西回家，除非约翰·昆西亲口告诉他！虽然亚当斯一家几乎都在一起，但快乐的时光并没有持续多久。 阿比盖尔亲爱的姐姐玛丽和她的丈夫都死了。 俄罗斯的约翰·昆西有个一岁大的女儿去世了。 现在阿比盖尔和约翰的孩子们都失去了自己的孩子。 对阿比盖尔来说最糟糕的是，纳比患上了乳腺癌。 她在没有麻醉的情况下做了手术。 疼痛一定是难以忍受的。 阿比盖尔看着女儿受苦有多难啊。 纳比在皮斯菲尔德待了一年康复。 然后她搬到了纽约。 后来，她的乳腺癌又复发了。 纳比非常虚弱，回到了皮斯菲尔德，死在了那里。 她48岁。 失去她亲爱的女儿和同伴是令人心碎的。 纳比的死使阿比盖尔大大地老了。 人们说她变成了一个老妇人。 有时她很难写字，因为她的手疼得太厉害了。 阿比盖尔抱怨她的记忆力

failing, but she stayed very interested in politics. This time, the War of 1812 was on her mind. The United States was at war with England again. The British burned the Capitol building and the president's house in Washington. Although far away, Abigail was outraged. She thought the war against England was right and necessary. When the minister in her church gave a sermon against the war, Abigail stopped going to church! When the war ended in 1814, John Quincy was sent to London to work on the peace treaty with Great Britain. Abigail and John were very proud of their son. Later, when he became secretary of state, they were even prouder. Abigail and John celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in 1814 with a big supper. Abigail said, "I have great cause for thankfulness." Even so, many of their old friends and relatives had died. Both of Abigail's younger sisters had died. In 1816 John and Abigail were sick all winter. They were both feeling very old. Abigail still managed to have a good attitude

虽然失败了，但她仍然对政治很感兴趣。 这一次，她脑子里想的是1812年的战争。 美国又和英国开战了。 英国人烧毁了华盛顿的国会大厦和总统官邸。 虽然离得很远，阿比盖尔还是很愤怒。 她认为对英国的战争是正确的，也是必要的。 当教堂的牧师发表反对战争的布道时，阿比盖尔就不再去教堂了！1814年战争结束后，约翰·昆西被派往伦敦，与英国签订和平条约。 阿比盖尔和约翰为他们的儿子感到非常自豪。 后来，当他成为国务卿时，他们更加自豪了。 1814年，阿比盖尔和约翰用一顿丰盛的晚餐庆祝了他们结婚五十周年纪念日。 亚比该说：“我非常感谢。” 即便如此，他们的许多老朋友和亲戚已经去世。 阿比盖尔的两个妹妹都死了。 1816年，约翰和阿比盖尔整个冬天都在生病。 他们都觉得自己老了。 阿比盖尔仍然保持着良好的态度

about life. "I always thought a laughing philosophy much wiser than a sniveling one," she wrote to her son John Quincy. In October 1818 Abigail got typhoid fever. It is spread from person to person. It was yet another frightening disease common in Abigail's time. She told John and others by her bedside that she didn't want to live longer if she wasn't useful. She died on October 28 at age seventy- three. John, her "dearest friend," wished he could die with her, but he lived eight more years to age ninety. A little over six years after Abigail died, her son John Quincy Adams became the sixth president of the United States. John, his father, was joyful, but said, "How proud she would have been." Abigail was the wife of one US president and the mother of another.

关于生活。她在给儿子约翰·昆西（John Quincy）的信中写道：“我一直认为笑的哲学比哭的哲学要聪明得多。” 1818年10月，阿比盖尔得了伤寒。 它在人与人之间传播。 这是阿比盖尔时代另一种常见的可怕疾病。 她告诉约翰和她床边的其他人，如果她没有用处，她不想活得更久。 她于10月28日去世，享年73岁。 约翰，她“最亲爱的朋友”，希望能和她一起死去，但他又活了8年，直到90岁。 阿比盖尔死后六年多一点，她的儿子约翰·昆西·亚当斯成为美国第六任总统。 约翰，他的父亲，很高兴，但说：“她会多么骄傲啊！” 阿比盖尔是一位美国总统的妻子和另一位总统的母亲。

THE WAR OF 1812 THE UNITED STATES DECLARED WAR ON GREAT BRITAIN IN 1812. IT IS SOMETIMES CALLED THE "SECOND WAR OF INDEPENDENCE." THE BRITISH WERE TRYING TO KEEP AMERICANS FROM BUYING OR SELLING GOODS TO FRANCE. THEY ALSO WANTED TO STOP AMERICA FROM TAKING OVER INDIAN LANDS AND PARTS OF CANADA. BATTLES WERE FOUGHT ON LAND, SEA, RIVERS, AND LAKES. THE UNITED STATES WAS DEFEATED MANY TIMES BY THE BRITISH AND THEIR INDIAN ALLIES DURING THE WAR. WASHINGTON, DC, WAS BURNED IN AUGUST 1814. ONE BATTLE IN BALTIMORE INSPIRED THE WORDS TO "THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER." A TREATY WAS FINALLY SIGNED IN DECEMBER 1814. NEITHER SIDE GAINED OR LOST TERRITORY IN THE WAR. AND FROM THAT TIME ON, THERE HAS BEEN A LASTING PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES.

1812年的战争美国在1812年向英国宣战。 它有时被称为“第二次独立战争”。 英国人试图阻止美国人向法国买卖货物。 他们还想阻止美国占领印第安人的土地和加拿大的部分地区。 战争在陆地、海洋、河流和湖泊上展开。 美国在战争期间多次被英国及其印度盟友击败。 华盛顿特区于1814年8月被烧毁。 巴尔的摩的一场战役启发了“星条旗”这句话。 条约终于在1814年12月签订。 双方在战争中既没有获得也没有失去领土。 从那时起，英国和美国之间就有了持久的和平和友谊。