LETTER FROM JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
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The important services which Historical Socis- ties are calculated to render is strkngly suggested by the following letter to the Secretary of the Ma ryland Association, which we copy from the Balti. more American. One can scarcely read 1t without being in some degree impressed with the impor- tance ot collecting and preserving the minutest de- tails of History, and this is the specific province o our Historical Societies.

 ........., ,.... QUINCY, 2eth Oct. ls45. To BRANTz MAYER, Esq. Baltimore: g,

 Dear Sir:-i have to return you my warmest thanks for your letter of the 24h uts ana TOT tne .'Journal ot Charles Carrot. of Carrolton, during his visit to Canada in l776 ss one oi the Comlnis- sioners from Congress" This document, and the introductory Memoir published with tt, will turn sh precious cont ribution to the future Historian of our revolution and War of Independence, as the name of Carroll will shine among the brightest Ct the founders of our Federative Republican Empire.

 It is pleasing to perceive the growing interest taken by the rising generation in the collection and preservation of the historical details of the Kevou' tionary Conflict of our Fathels. The institution of Historical Societies in many States 0t Uur O' mon promises tV our pOOtcrs<y pledge rnhiradic' tory of the misantropIc declaration of Sir Robert Walpole that all history is and must be false. It is, indeed. comfortable to all experience that the history of periods, and of events pregnant with consequences affecting the condition of the human race, can be but imperiectly known to the actors and contemporaries of them. There is French work entitled the History of Great Events rom Little Causes and there are perhaps very lew ot

 the z, eat events in the history ot Mankind to which little causes have not largely contributed. thinK

 it is remark of Voltaires that poste1ty $ G'.cays eager for details: and among the incidents ot that coHvusion of the family oi civilized man. which be- gan with the Writs of Assistants and the stamp. Act, and, ended in the foundation of the Ptoudes' Empire that the world has ever known,-the reia- lions of the Colonies of England swelling into Sov- ereign States with the conquered Colony of France Intellectually Sought to be united with them in the struggle of Freedom and Independence. .-there are causes of detaH SO widely different from those which operated on the Mass. that they will require the keenest perception and the profoundest medta' ton oftbe future philosophical Historian to assign to them their proper station and weight as elem"nts in the composition ofthe complicated and wond. rous tale. The Journal of MT. Carroll will be a. thong the most precious materials for the Narrative of that great movement in hdinan affairs. and the Historical Society oi Maryland has rendered no in. considerable service to the future of our coun- try by bringing it forth and publishing it to the l world.

 am with great respect, dear sir, your very hum- ble and obt servant, ..a...... ..,r- yq JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.