August 18, 2026 · 47:46

("Best-of" Edition from 8/2/23) Tim Barton, President of Wallbuilders, steps into “The Corner.”

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0:00 - 15:00. Philippians 3:1. Repetition is a safeguard. 15:00 - 31:00. Tim Barton, President of Wallbuilders, steps into “The Corner.” 31:00 - 48:00. Everyone should know the real Adams Family history.

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0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
0:02It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
0:06This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
0:10It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite.
0:15Delivering people out of the bondage of mainstream media.
0:18And the philosophies of this world.
0:20God has called you and me to be His ambassador.
0:23Even in this dark moment.
0:26Let's not miss our moment.
0:28And now the Hamilton Corner.
0:32Good evening.
0:33Welcome to the Hamilton Corner here on American Family Radio.
0:36I'm your host, Abraham Hamilton.
0:38The third, J. Mac, has managed the controls,
0:41produced extraordinary, often imitated, but never, never,
0:45never, never, duplicated.
0:48And we are ready to rock and roll with today's edition
0:51of the program at this very moment.
0:53Many of you, if not most of you, are transitioning
0:57from your part time jobs where you generate an income to your full time jobs where you
1:02cultivate an outcome. And as you do so, I want to encourage you and to remind you of the
1:10reality that family is the first human institution that God ordained and established with marriage
1:16at the center. The first command that God gave to mankind was issued within the familial
1:22context before you have monarchies, before you have orders of priests, before you have orders
1:28of prophets, before you have the establishment of the modern civil government, the first human
1:33institution the Lord establishes is the family. And he did that intentionally and recorded it
1:38for his posterity and for our edification so that we would know the primacy that he places
1:44on family. It is the institution God ordained family as the primary multi-generational discipleship
1:53mechanism that exists. This is why when you search the scriptures, you'll find that the
1:58responsibility to make disciples of children born into Christian households, it's not the responsibility
2:05of the church corporately. It is not the responsibility of your favorite youth pastor. The first response,
2:11the first persons who are responsible for evangelizing, catechizing, and making disciples
2:19of the children born into Christian families are the parents. The parents, we as parents,
2:26are responsible for this. This is why we should recognize that no matter where you are, if God
2:33has blessed you to be a parent, you are called to be a disciple maker. Now, the commitment is
2:39is required of us, not because we can guarantee by our investment what the receipt of that
2:46investment will be.
2:47We cannot guarantee that our children will be born again, but what we are required to
2:52do is to be faithful and obedient.
2:55You and me will be held accountable.
2:57We will be held accountable by God for the quality with which, the degree to which we
3:02have been obedient and faithful to Him as we have shepherded His heritage.
3:09commitment is to faithfulness and obedience, not to outcomes. God calls us to be faithful,
3:17to be faithful. And if you really want to know what the larger story of the American
3:27regression has been, it has been the story, frankly, of the world being more passionately
3:32commitment to multi-generational discipleship than the body of Christ. If you want to drill right
3:39down to it, that is what has happened. Now, thanks be to God, that does not have to continue to be
3:45the case because as we submit ourselves afresh to the truth of God's Word, because we submit ourselves
3:52afresh to the God of his Word, we have the opportunity to repent and as far as it concerns you and me,
4:02personally and individually, we can implement the evidence of that repentance starting right in our
4:08own homes. When Jesus gave the disciples to Great Commission, he instructed them that they were to
4:17be His witnesses. You have been doing it with power to be My witnesses in Judea, in Jerusalem,
4:23in Judea, into Sumerian, to the other most parts of the world. Now, I'm not saying that all of them
4:27were from Judea as a homeland, but it established, it served as the foundation, the base, if you will,
4:34for ministry there.
4:36And so what the Lord was conveying is that you start
4:39at the home base first and you worked outward from there.
4:43Well, we have the opportunities to start
4:45with our commitment to execute our king's commission
4:48at our home base.
4:49And so I wanna encourage you to do so.
4:51This is why I describe what we do to generate revenue,
4:53to generate income as our part time work.
4:55Because our full time work as Christ followers
4:58is to first and foremost live the lifestyle of worship,
5:01which is typified by obedience.
5:04the most immediate outflow of that obedience,
5:06following our personal commitment to holiness,
5:08is to execute our Lord's commission
5:10right at our home base, starting at our home base.
5:14All right, to the word of God we go, man,
5:16I'm excited about today's show, I'm excited about it.
5:19But we're gonna begin in Philippians chapter three,
5:21verse one, just one verse for today,
5:24Philippians chapter three, verse one.
5:27And the Apostle Paul is writing, and here he says,
5:30Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord to write the same things again is no trouble to me.
5:39And it is a safeguard to you. The Apostle Paul said something, sorry, the Apostle Peter said
5:46something very similar. For me to reiterate what I've said to you previously is a safeguard for you.
5:52What I want to share, and I've mentioned this on this program before, is that we have to resist a
5:58human temptation to always want to have something new. We shared that already. We need to have
6:06something new. You know, the Apostle Jude said that the faith has been once and for all passed
6:12down to us, his saints. You actually should be wary when somebody comes to you saying, Hey, man,
6:18look, they got this new thing to add to you for the gospel. Hey, no new gospel chief.
6:24Hey, no new gospel.
6:26In fact, the positive eye or an angel show up presenting you another gospel, let him be
6:31accursed.
6:32There's no new gospel.
6:33The faith that we have has been once and for all passed down to the saints.
6:37That is millennia old, millennia old and repeating the truths of scripture, giving what God has
6:46given us.
6:47It is word that the Lord has established for our benefit.
6:51It is no trouble.
6:53Should be for the believer.
6:54as the Apostle Paul's articulated here in chapter 3 verse 1 in the Epistle to the Philippians,
6:59that it is a safe guard.
7:04So as you go about your lives and you're engaging in executing our Lord's commission and making
7:09disciples, starting first with your children, do not grow weary of repeating the same eternal
7:16truths from God's Word that you may have spoken before.
7:19Just because you've said it doesn't mean that it's been called.
7:23One of the things that's necessary in endeavoring to inculcate faith in our children is repetition.
7:29When the scripture says, as the apostle Paul is writing to the Romans, says faith comes by
7:34hearing, hearing by the word of God.
7:37What may not be obvious is that the tense that is employed there as the phrase rendered
7:44comes by hearing, what is included in the Greek rendering of this verbiage is that it
7:49It comes by hearing with repetition repeatedly over and over and over, not to be mundane, not
7:56to be monotonous, not to be redundant for the sake of redundancy, but when you have the eternal
8:03truths of God accessible to you, it is incumbent upon us, not merely to read it, not merely to
8:11go over it.
8:12But as David said, to meditate on it, to meditate on it day and night, there is great safety.
8:19God available to us when we repeat the eternal truths of God's Word.
8:29You can never discuss the fruit of the Spirit too much.
8:32You can never discuss God's righteous requirement too much.
8:35You can never reiterate the fact that God has expectations and standards for His covenant
8:41people.
8:43You know, I've been talking a bit and I shared some of this at the Marriage Family Life Conference
8:482023.
8:50And you see the entirety of scripture, you know, and a lot of people are familiar with the
8:55account when other touches the ark and the ark stumble and there's a great temptation to
9:01you know, impose upon God and impose upon his word an isegetical humanistic morality, you
9:06know, what's going on there?
9:09Like that's so mean.
9:10Other than do nobody, nothing, you know, but if you survey description, you delve a bit
9:17deep where you'll find what God is revealing of himself and what God is
9:21revealing of mankind and what God is revealing of his requirements where it's
9:26coming to people. You you'll recall that under saw the Philistines defeated the
9:31Israelites and took the Ark of the Covenant, you know, and the Ark was in
9:36the Philistine territory for seven months to scripture records and the Philistines
9:42initially misinterpreted their temporary military victory because they thought
9:46because they defeated the Israelite army that also that
9:49meant that the God of Israel been defeated to which Qleecorso
9:55not so fast, my friend, you know, simply because the Lord allowed
9:59the Philistine army at that juncture to serve as the means of
10:04discipline for Israel doesn't mean that they had toppled God from
10:09his throne. So when they initially got the Ark of the Covenant
10:12and put it in the temple of their pagan God, they gone. They
10:18He came back in later on and found, oh, the statue had fallen.
10:23They tried to put the statue back up, picked it up again, came back again later.
10:29Fell again, this time the head was locked off of the statue.
10:32Then we get to realize, oh, it seems like this may be the doings of the God of Israel.
10:39So for seven months, they circulated the Ark of the Covenant through various Egyptian
10:44Philistine cities.
10:45And when plagues broke out, almost like the plagues in Egypt, and it had plagues of mice
10:50and you have plagues of tumors and the tumors weren't really internal growth,
10:54they were actually external. The reason why we know this is that the the phyllis
10:57things when they began to surmise what's going on, speckled into what's going on,
11:01they believed they started to say, wait a minute, this must be the God of Israel.
11:04So they said, we need to make an offering, a peace offering to the God of Israel.
11:08And they made golden replicas of the mice and the tumors indicating that they recognize,
11:15well, we see this, this is what you're doing. And the Bible says that they opened the ark and put it
11:19inside. Now, you know, the commands that the Lord gave the people of Israel concerning the
11:24ark that they weren't to open it. Not only that, they would furnish the sick man, if this is really
11:32the God of Israel. What we're going to do, we're going to take a nursing cow, a cow mom,
11:37and a just had her baby calf. And she's nursing because we know nursing cows not trying to be
11:45anywhere separate from their babies. So they made the decision, we're going to hitch a nursing
11:55cow to a cart and allow the cart to go and we'll see because if this is in fact the
12:03God of Israel the cow was gonna make a beeline straight for the Israelite
12:07territory and lo and behold what happens they put the nursing cow attached her to
12:12the cart as soon as she's attached the cow instantly takes off from Philistine
12:18territory walking toward the land of Israel the Philistines put spies to watch
12:26Watch the cart as it traveled.
12:29And they follow, say, oh, snap, the cow is walking towards Israel.
12:33And the cow walks all the way until it gets to the border, the territory between the Philistine
12:39territory and the nation of Israel and stops and stands there.
12:44That's all in your Bible.
12:45That's in 1st, Samuel, chapter 4, all the way to verse chapter 7.
12:49It stops and stands there.
12:51In all of that, the Lord is revealing he didn't have an issue with carts.
12:56And then even his issue doesn't prevent the Philistines from opening the ark and putting
13:06their pagan ignorant offerings into it.
13:10But when you contrast that with what transpired with the Israelites, the Lord is revealing
13:18that he has heightened requirement, heightened requirements for his covenant people.
13:25He's revealing what also that Aaron learned in Leviticus chapter 10 verse 3, and those
13:30who draw near me, I must be regarded as holy.
13:33My covenant people, the Levites, were to carry
13:36the presence of God in the ark
13:38on their shoulders to bear up under the weight.
13:40There's a heightened requirement, heightened requirement
13:44for God's covenant people.
13:48Repetition of this phenomenon is a safeguard.
13:52It's a safeguard.
13:54It's not something that's gonna be like,
13:55well, I just wanna remain a strain from the Lord
13:57because here we are in the New Testament context.
14:02where John chapter three verse 16 is often quoted.
14:06But John chapter three verse 17 is also in the Bible.
14:09And it says, for those who reject the Christ,
14:13they are condemned already.
14:15The condemnation is a rejection of the Messiah
14:18who's been offered as a free gift,
14:21whose atoning sacrifices makes salvation available
14:24to whosoever will let them come.
14:28Don't be afraid or dismayed or tempted into thinking
14:33that repetition is boring, same old, same old.
14:36We need to fresh this latest new,
14:38it's something new hips, hip, hip,
14:39hip, hip, hip, hip, hip, hip,
14:41repetition is a blessing and it's a safeguard
14:45when it's repetition of the eternal truths of God's Word.
14:48There's a reason why all throughout the scripture,
14:51Genesis to Revelation, the Lord says to his people
14:53over and over and over again, remember.
15:06Shiting light into the darkness,
15:08this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
15:12Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner Abraham Hamilton the third here.
15:15It is my distinct honor and pleasure to have on the program with me, none other than Tim Barton,
15:22president of wall builders.
15:24If you are not familiar with wall builders, where have you been?
15:28Come out from under the rock where you have been sleeping.
15:31Wall builders is an organization dedicated to presenting America's forgotten history and heroes
15:37with an emphasis on the moral, religious, and constitutional foundation on which America
15:44has been constructed.
15:46Tim Barton is a brother in Christ.
15:48He is a husband.
15:50He is a father.
15:51He's a man of God.
15:52And frankly, he and his family have been a tremendous blessing to our nation and a blessing
15:56to me personally.
15:57It is my honor to have on the program, Mr. Tim Barton.
16:00Thank you for joining me, Tim.
16:02Man, my pleasure.
16:03Thanks for having me on.
16:04Oh, man, the pleasure is certainly, certainly mine.
16:07I know you heard me share the story numerous times,
16:10but I'm gonna share it now for the audience.
16:13I will never forget I was 14 or 15 years old
16:16at my church in New Orleans, Louisiana.
16:18And I remember coming to service.
16:20Our, we had two Sunday morning services at that time.
16:24Our larger service was actually a 7 a.m. service.
16:27I would get there at 6.30.
16:29And I remember seeing a man putting these huge books
16:33across the entire front of the platform.
16:35Didn't know who he was.
16:37And I was just intrigued from that portion on.
16:39And the man I learned his name later,
16:42his name was David Barton.
16:44And he did a series of sermons really,
16:48and lectures on Americans for God and History.
16:50And so that helped shape the trajectory of my life,
16:54and the way that God ended up moving me.
16:56And so I get to talk to you now,
16:58who is the president of the organization
17:01that your dad founded.
17:03And you have your unique gifts, talents, and abilities
17:05as you take as you take in the helm of the organization.
17:09And so I wanted to have you on a Hamilton corner
17:11just to present our audience here with an opportunity
17:14to learn some things about America's forgotten history.
17:17I would argue sometimes intentionally concealed history.
17:21But what are some of the things
17:22that from our history and founding
17:24that you think are pertinent and necessary
17:26for every American to be aware of?
17:29Well, I appreciate the setup.
17:31And also I want to maybe tie a little bow
17:33kind of connect some of the doctor that story too.
17:36As you mentioned, my dad was setting out all these old books on the stage.
17:40We've been very blessed over the last 35 years, give or take.
17:45We've been able to compile what's considered one of the largest private collections
17:49of original documents from the founding era.
17:51And as we try to present history, we go back to the original documents.
17:55We actually have letters and journals and diaries from guys like George Washington,
17:59and Benjamin Franklin, and John Hancock, and Thomas Jefferson, John Adams,
18:03all the noted names of founding fathers, we actually have their writings and what makes
18:07it different is in a modern, I guess, academic kind of movement. We've been told that just
18:13trust the experts, right? We definitely heard this a lot during COVID, but it's true in the
18:16academic world as well. We're told, right? These professors, they have all knowledge, they're
18:21all knowing just trust what they say, do what they do. And when my dad first started actually
18:26reading some original documents back in the 80s, he was blown away by how different it was
18:31from what he had originally heard and he realized that the founding fathers contrary
18:37to the notion of the separation church of state that they didn't want to secularize
18:40America they had actually worked to keep God at the center of what we were doing in America
18:45and and he found this in their writings he found this in their letters which is just incredibly
18:50evident if you actually studied their writings with that being said one of the things that he
18:54really felt the challenge of God was a little bit like the story of Nehemiah from the Bible where
18:58where Nehemiah was part of the Israelites,
19:00when they were in that Babylonian captivity,
19:02and Nehemiah is the cupboard of the king,
19:04but he saw Jerusalem torn down at the man.
19:06We need to help restore our nation.
19:09And Nehemiah with the blessing of the king
19:11goes back and rebuilds Jerusalem.
19:12And in Nehemiah 2.17, he says,
19:14come let us rebuild the walls
19:15that when they no longer be reproach the people.
19:17And God really felt like that was kind of his calling,
19:20the diverse of our organization, of our ministry,
19:23was that God was calling us to rebuild the walls of America,
19:26which is where the name wall builders came from.
19:29And so with that being said,
19:30as we look at the original documents and study history,
19:33it is crazy to me where the modern conversation has gone
19:37that right now only 18% of young people,
19:40the rising generation, only 18% say they're proud
19:43to be American.
19:44In fact, we now are a little below 50%
19:49of Americans that are proud to be American.
19:50And it's not just because maybe we have political leaders
19:53that we disagree with, it's because for decades,
19:56We have been learning in schools, learning in all kinds of academic and educational structures
20:02that America is fundamentally evil, that we've done more bad than we've done good.
20:06And that's why if you talk to students today, they can tell you more bad things about America
20:09than good things about America, which can only be correct based on their perspective if you go to any
20:16third world nation. And what I always tell parents and young people is if you want to help your young
20:20people out, young people, if you want to help yourself out, find a church that takes emissions
20:24trips, the Third World Nation, and go on a two-wing mission trip. Go see what life looks
20:28like in the rest of the world because you can't have a proper perspective of the uniqueness
20:33and the blessings of America if you don't recognize the challenges the rest of the world is facing
20:38at unprecedented levels compared to what Americans deal with. So what we try to do is just tell the
20:45honest story. We think it's more of the biblical approach. We're in the Bible. If you read the
20:50the Old Testament, it shows the good, the bad and the ugly.
20:53It shows in Israel.
20:54There were great kings and there were awful kings, evil kings.
20:57Some of the kings had really good moments
20:59and then had really bad moments,
21:00but the Bible unapologetically tells the whole story.
21:03The modern narrative today is we're only learning
21:07a part of the story and it's part of the story we're learning.
21:10It's not even always a true story,
21:11but the part of the story we're learning
21:12is how bad America is.
21:14And that's just fundamentally not correct
21:16in context and perspective, it's not historically accurate.
21:19And so we try to restore some of the truth of American history,
21:23not saying that America didn't make mistakes,
21:24not saying that there weren't evil leaders at times
21:26who did evil things,
21:27but it's recognizing that what America is being accused of
21:31is different in the reality of what she did.
21:33Most of the sins today that people accuse America of
21:36are not the sins she was guilty of.
21:38We committed plenty of sins,
21:40it's just maybe not the ones we're being accused of
21:42at the level that we're being accused of,
21:44but then if that makes sense.
21:45Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
21:46And you said so much that was valuable in which you just shared,
21:50but one of the main things you said is original source,
21:54original sources, not just parroting what was heard
21:58from someone who's grandma,
22:00who's uncle said this about the nation,
22:02but looking at the original documentation.
22:04And so one of the major things,
22:07and I guess let's just hit this right from the beginning.
22:09I have more things I wanna get into,
22:12but one of, in my estimation,
22:14the heroic salient and
22:18estimable families in american history
22:20that i believe every american needs to be aware of is the family
22:24of john adam's the real adam's family
22:27uh... would you share that with our listeners and our viewers of bit about
22:31the reality of the legacy of the adam's family
22:35absolutely and and to your point
22:37they are one of
22:38the more forgotten
22:41families that are arguably
22:43arguably the most significant family yes as far as a legacy goes in american
22:47history
22:48uh... because certainly you can look at that
22:50people that were noted whether it be a george washington whether
22:53it be a thomas deveren abraham lincoln you can look at people that were very
22:57important
22:58but their family legacy didn't always
23:01i continue to the same level as
23:04what for example john adam's he's he's the first vice president becomes a second
23:08president america will his son john quite the atom
23:10becomes the sixth president of america
23:13also kind of worth noting on adam's is the guy that during the american
23:17revolution he is the american ambassador over to great britain
23:21he's one of the guys who helps
23:23negotiate the end of the american revolution
23:25well john quinty adam's is the american ambassador during the war eighteen twelve
23:29again another war with great britain
23:31under president madison john quinty adam's if the american ambassador to great
23:35britain who negotiate the end of the war of eighteen twelve and then quite
23:39interestingly, John Quincy Adams son, Charles Francis Adams, is an ambassador over to Great
23:46Britain this time during the Civil War. And this one is also a super interesting connection
23:51as far as some of the history details that during the Civil War the Confederate States
23:57recording Great Britain, recording France, were trying to find allies because for the North
24:03that's where so much immigration was happening. And so they were able to continue to grow their
24:07army and build their army through new immigrants coming in, but the South, they didn't have the
24:13immigration stations the same way they did up north. And so they're struggling to grow their army and
24:18as battles are happening, their armies are being depleted, they need more supplies. So they begin
24:22courting Great Britain and France, among others that they're putting out requests for help to.
24:26And Great Britain and France are pretty close to, it looks like, at least historically on paper,
24:33looks like they're getting close to maybe siding with the Confederates. And you know what, we're
24:37We're gonna be with you because we never like those
24:39Northern guys anyway, we're gonna help you out in this.
24:42Charles Francis Adams goes to them and says,
24:44guys, you ought to hold on for a little bit.
24:47There's something bigger at play, right?
24:50This isn't merely a state's right issue.
24:53This is not merely an internal conflict.
24:55This is something much bigger.
24:56And he began to tell them that one of the fundamental issues
25:00in the Civil War was the issue of slavery.
25:02And he explained to them, if you'll wait just a little bit,
25:06President Lincoln is going to make it very, very clear.
25:07Well, President Lincoln comes out with an anticipation proclamation.
25:10At that point, it's very clear that this internal conflict, the major component in this
25:15is a slavery component.
25:17At that point, Great Britain and France, they've already ended slavery.
25:19They had been against the slave trade a long time until they come out and say, okay, if
25:23it's slavery, we're not supporting a nation or a startup nation, so to speak, a Confederacy
25:28that is wanting to extend slavery.
25:30So we're off.
25:32is quite remarkable is John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Charles Francis Adams, all of them negotiated,
25:38helping America find peace in the midst of major conflict, but also all three of them were
25:44major anti-slavery advocates.
25:46And everything that's largely overlooked when people talk about the founding fathers.
25:50And you hear this all the time.
25:52Yes.
25:53And obviously in our circles, when we are people that are helping share news and kind of,
25:59In some level, create truthful narratives as opposed to a lot of the dishonesty and so
26:04there's an economy of what we're trying to show people like this is what actually happened.
26:08This is the truth, helping people navigate what that is.
26:11There is so much nonsense being espoused.
26:14One of them about how the accusations that all the Founding Fathers or all of America
26:19is racist, right?
26:20This is one of the things certainly paraded by the 1619 project.
26:23It's something that critical race theory largely teaches that all the Founding Fathers
26:26are racist evil individuals.
26:28although in like full disclosure right telling the whole story the good about the ugly in full
26:33disclosure there certainly were some right to finding fathers however the majority of them
26:38were not racist and you also have examples of guys like john Adams someone who never owned
26:44slaves and fought against slavery his entire life well john Adams raises his son john quincey
26:51Adams in the midst of the american revolution and john Adams also a lot of background in his
26:57story and we could spend hours on any one of their stories, whether it be John Adams or
27:02John Quincy or Charles Francis and obviously we don't have time for that.
27:04So I'm going to focus a little bit more on John Quincy because his story is so fun.
27:09But John Adams makes himself a noted name as an attorney.
27:13He is a firebrand speaking out for freedom against tyranny and oppression.
27:19Well, as a revolution unfolds, he's a major voice in the Continental Congress.
27:24His family is growing up and they're in Massachusetts.
27:26As they grew up, the family abigail his wife and then his son, John Quincy Adams, they're
27:32actually at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
27:33They're watching from the hillside.
27:35They watched their family doctor, their personal friend, Dr. Joseph Lauren get murdered in essence
27:40by the British.
27:41She was wounded in the battle and after the battle was over, they came over and they
27:43bane it into the death.
27:44They were not going to get in medical help.
27:46They said, no, we're killing this dude.
27:47So he's literally murdered on the battlefield at that point because the battle, right, in essence,
27:52like he's done.
27:53He's out of fight.
27:54Anyway.
27:55So this is when John Quincy Adams eight years old as that the war unfolds it is very evident
28:02and John Adams mind that this is really on our family's doorstep and we're going to be
28:08part of the bloody conflict whether we want to or not.
28:11So the Massachusetts Minute Men, one of the places they would do drills was in front of
28:16John Adams home.
28:17And at one point John Adams tells John Quincy Adams, hey you got to get your musket, you need
28:22get out there you got to start learning how to how to work the musket
28:25learning how to do this because
28:27before you know you might need to still he's only eight years old and he's
28:30out training with the military the eight-year-old
28:33when he's ten years old john
28:34adam's eyes
28:35going on diplomatic mission over to france and john quinti adam's
28:39uh... scorches father is actually the official secretary for the delegation
28:42for his father
28:44uh... when he's fourteen years old
28:45he gets a second assignment from congress congress actually assigned a
28:49fourteen-year-old
28:50as part of a a ambassador delegation over to russia will the reason john kwan
28:55d'adam's got the assignment is
28:57as a fourteen-year-old he was already fluent in six languages
29:00uh... he ends up being over in europe a lot with his father as a revolution
29:04comes to an end
29:05uh... john adam's actually over
29:08in europe wall the constitution is written then
29:10when george washington becomes president he's chosen vice president he comes back
29:14well when george washington is looking for ambassadors
29:17he was so impressed john quindy and i'm to done some writing and it was printed
29:21paper
29:22george washington red is that is good amazing
29:24it didn't and actually washington know who was the first he said this writer is
29:27amazing
29:28come to find out was john adam's son
29:30who at the time of nineteen twenty years old and what washington is point but
29:33right like this this could be a big guy
29:36washington assigned to go be an ambassador for america
29:40and while he's over in in europe washington actually writes about him
29:45that he is the best ambassador that america hat he is the the the best guy we have over
29:50in europe
29:51uh... when john at it becomes president john quincey adam
29:54is an ambassador under his father
29:56when jefferson gim's president john quincey adam's elected to be a u s senator
30:00when that it became president
30:02he recruited adam's again to come back and be an ambassador
30:06uh... which i mentioned he negotiated the end of the war of eighteen twelve
30:09when maro became president he became the secretary of state under maro
30:12and then john kwanji out of the king six president united states of america
30:16which is arguably the most impressive resume
30:19of any president ever
30:21especially when it comes to a guy who personally knew every single-founding
30:24father
30:24or it was meant toward by guy like george washington just absolutely amazing
30:29after being president though
30:30he he lost to andrew jackson
30:33and he was at that point john kwanji's trying to figure out what you know do
30:36it's a lot of because
30:37he still has a lot of passion but what what can you do to make a difference in
30:41and he ends up being elected to Congress.
30:42He wasn't even running.
30:43He was recruited, his name was put on the ballot.
30:45He was not campaigning, he wasn't running,
30:47but his state chosen to be a Congressman.
30:50And he decided that there was a great evil
30:53that needs to be remedied, and it was the evil of slavery.
30:55He became the leader of the anti-slavery movement in Congress.
30:58And for 17 years, he fought against slavery.
31:02Interestingly, his last year in Congress,
31:05which just for everybody listening to remember Congress,
31:08every two years you have elections in Congress.
31:10So as he's there for in essence, roughly nine terms.
31:15I mean, Diden is his ninth term there,
31:17but as he's there for all these terms,
31:20he's seeing new people elected every two years.
31:22His last term, there was a young freshman elected
31:24who became a member of the anti-slavery movement.
31:27Let me interrupt you right there
31:28because music is coming on.
31:30And guys, you wanna stay close
31:32because you wanna hear this connection.
31:34But the reality is John Quincy Adams
31:36can rightly be described in my opinion
31:39as an American, William Wilberforce in a lot of ways.
31:43But I'm gonna pause right here
31:44because I want you to see the connection
31:45that Tim is gonna make to show the continuity
31:50of the anti-slavery moving in America,
31:52led so long by John Quincy Adams.
31:55You wanna see who is successor maybe.
32:07Hamilton Quarter podcast and One-Minute Common Terrets
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32:12Back to the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio.
32:17Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner.
32:18My guest is president of wall builders, Tim Barton.
32:21He was explaining the life and legacy of the Adams family.
32:25We're focusing specifically at this point on John Quincy Adams.
32:28We got right to the point to where after being president, a remarkable teenager.
32:33You're talking about fluent in six languages about a time he's 14.
32:36Serving as a foreign ambassador, his writings impressed George Washington so much.
32:41So George Washington is like, who is this cat?
32:43He learns that this is a young man.
32:45that gives you a lot of different perception of adolescents in that time period versus where
32:49we are today. But after being president, and then being six, the six president of the United
32:55States, losing a subsequent election, but still recognizing that as more that needs to be
33:01done, there's a great evil that must be eradicated. He takes on the mantle of the anti-slavery
33:08movement in Congress for roughly nine term, 17 years. And so that's where we left off
33:13before the break and tomorrow
33:14toss it back to you
33:15uh... to pick up right there to continue
33:17uh... to to put up a button on john quincey adam's is
33:21uh... story
33:23perfect so as as john quincey adam is in congress he becomes a leader of the
33:26anti-slaver movement and
33:27and and also john quincey adam's attorney as father been attorney
33:31and they were both very good attorneys john quincey adam's actually argued
33:34many cases for the u-sopran court
33:36one of the cases worth mentioning
33:38happen while he was in congress and
33:41he was a very very famous person as you might imagine
33:44the guy who knew every founding father personally
33:47who served
33:48under virtually every single president administration or at least
33:51was a u s senator jennifer send but every other president's administration he was
33:55part of the team is part of the staff
33:57it is a very noted famous guy
34:00there is a very famous
34:01anti-slavery case and it was called the oma-spot case and
34:05of course they do know about this for everybody listening if you don't know about
34:08that there was a movie, Steven Spielberg did back in the 90s, totally worth watching.
34:11It'll give you kind of a brief overview of the Amafat case.
34:15But the essence is there was a group of Africans that were taken on a Portuguese slave trading
34:21ship.
34:22And at this point, the slave trade is illegal.
34:24America actually was the first nation to sign a law banning the slave trade.
34:28Thomas Jefferson signed that law on March 2nd, 1807.
34:31England signed the law three weeks approximately later on March 25th, 1807.
34:36And some people might argue that actually England's law was first because when they
34:40signed in March 25th, it went into effect on that date.
34:44America signed a law March 2nd, which they signed it first, but it didn't go into effect
34:47until January 1st of the following year.
34:49So people argue that actually England was the first nation to ban the slave trade.
34:53I would actually throw a caveat and say, no, I don't think they were.
34:56I still think America was the first nation because even though America's law didn't go
35:00into effect until January 1st, 1808, England's law that was 1807, March 22nd, their law
35:06said that if there's any ship captain who has contracts in the slave trade industry, he
35:13has one year to fulfill the contracts and then there can be no more contracts taken, no
35:17more slave trade after one year.
35:19So they didn't actually ban it until March 25th, 1808.
35:23So America signed the law first, America banned it first all about the context to say that as
35:28the Amasak case happens, there is a portraody slave trading ship and they're going to Cuba.
35:35They sell slaves in Cuba, then there's a couple of plantation owners that bought 53 slaves.
35:41They're taking them to their plantation in the Caribbean.
35:44Well, on the way, these 53 Africans who were enslaved, they haven't uprising on the ship.
35:51They killed a crew.
35:52They keep a couple of people alive because these Africans did not know how to sell this
35:57large massive ship.
35:58And so they tell them, right, take us back to Africa.
36:02And so these sailors, they kept alive.
36:05They, okay, we will take you back.
36:06What they do is they end up selling up the coast of America
36:10and they end up stopping in Connecticut.
36:12As they stop in Connecticut, they go into Harvard,
36:15they go into Port and when they get there,
36:17these sailors begin crying mutiny,
36:19they're muting in the high seas.
36:21And so Americans come and mutiny is an offense
36:24that's the death penalty.
36:26This is totally illegal and you can put the deaths
36:28for doing mutiny.
36:30well as canada get there were anti-slavery state the
36:33trade been
36:34band for decades in america
36:37and when they begin to find out what's going on a first of all the they have
36:40prison all the african
36:41uh... charging them with the crime of unity but as
36:44information begins to unfold which first of all no one in canada get spoke
36:49the this african dialect i think was minty i think is what it was but i
36:52speak to the african dialect
36:54so that they start looking for someone
36:56they find someone who was a former British sailor who actually had been from that nation
37:03and anyway found freedom was living in America and he came down he began translating and the
37:10story came out that these were individuals who were taken in the slave trade which Americans
37:16now already have a distaste for the slave trade that they were kidnapped these were free
37:20individuals who were kidnapped in Africa who were sold in the slave trade and they were
37:24For Volta on board, they were fighting for their freedom.
37:27At this point, the argument was that this wasn't mutiny, this was self-defense.
37:31Well, they win the case at the lower court.
37:34It then is appealed to the Supreme Court.
37:36As it appealed, and by the way, Spain was helping fund this because these plantation
37:43owners were from Spain, connected to Spain.
37:46So Spain is helping fund the pro-slavery side of this.
37:50as it goes to the spring court the most famous anti slavery leader of the time
37:55is john kwanji atum the guy who actually is argued supreme court cases
37:58and so they recruit him he was known as old man eloquent
38:02uh... it kind of
38:04a a a descriptor on whatever he would get them speaking congress
38:07everybody no matter what's going on everybody stopped everybody came up
38:10in the halls
38:11they even if they disagreed with this guy john kwanji atum for just so brilliant
38:15everybody wanted to hear the wisdom of his words even if they disagreed with
38:19the principal even if it's a great politically they wanted to hear the
38:21brief of the guy
38:23so he shows in he goes to the supreme court
38:26the supreme court of the time
38:27in the justices
38:29the majority of them i think seven of the nine were were slave holding justice
38:33it's so you're arguing in slavery
38:36in front of people that have played that's not looking good he ends up winning the
38:39decision
38:39with only one judge voting against them the africans when their freedom
38:44at any way this is part of his legacy he's fighting in flavors entire life
38:47his last term in congress there's a freshman who is elected this freshman
38:51joined the anti-slavery movement
38:53here's the speech of john quanciadam
38:55uh... you can imagine inspired by the wisdom of his words which on quanciadam
38:59to the stroke
39:00he died in congress
39:02when he died that the void is now very evident in the anti-slavery movement and
39:08and the movement still incredibly strong
39:10but the most noted leader that the spokesman is gone
39:14and so there's a lot of people now thinking we want to help feel that gap
39:17but we want to feel the void
39:19and this young freshman
39:20run for reelection
39:22and he lost
39:23but not to be discouraged
39:24this freshman congressman that decided he's he's going to try again and we lose
39:28the game runs for senate he lost for city
39:30he ran for state office lost a office
39:33this young freshman did not want another election
39:35until he won the eighteen sixty presidency and it was a break and link it
39:40and what is so fascinating about some of these connection
39:43is not only does Abraham Lincoln become the president that in slavery, Abraham Lincoln
39:48also appoints John Quincy Adams son Charles Francis Adams to be the ambassador over to Great
39:54Britain over to you who is another anti-slavery guy. When John Quincy Adams does the Emancipation
39:59Proclamation that is literally something that John Quincy Adams had been talking about. One
40:04of the strategies of how could you do this? Well if slaves were rebelling what could you
40:08do and then you actually can start in Washington DC because you have the federal authority over
40:13the District of Columbia because that's a federal territory.
40:16And then everything John Quincy Adams laid out in this plan is strategies what Abraham Lincoln
40:20did and Abraham Lincoln gets the credit and justifiably deserves credit for ending slavery
40:25in America.
40:26But it overlooks the fact that his mentor, that even people he chose as ambassador, helping
40:32to stop the British and the French from joining the Confederacy were the Adams.
40:37And back to the original question is,
40:40who are some of the people that are overlooked
40:41or people that we should know that we don't,
40:43that maybe if we knew their story,
40:44it might even change some of the perspective
40:46we have of America.
40:48The Adams family is a family that by and large,
40:51people don't know their story today.
40:54And if we knew their story,
40:55it would give us such a different perspective
40:57from the modern narrative.
40:58Also worth noting is that the Adams family
41:01were very outspoken in their faith.
41:04John Quincy Adams was very outspoken as a Christian,
41:07which also if you look at the anti-slavery movement in America, you will be hard pressed
41:12to find any leader in anti-slavery movement in America who is not an outspoken Christian
41:18and maybe not even being a pastor or a minister on some level.
41:22The reason that matters is even when people look at America and they want to accuse America
41:26of being guilty of all these evils and sin, I mentioned in the beginning, there's no question
41:31America is guilty of definitely committing evils and sins along the way, not always the
41:35once we're accused of but definitely we're not a perfect nation we've definitely
41:38had leaders that did some evil things one of the questions we're asking is how
41:41do those evils end and and who led the opposition and without exception and
41:46this is so important for all of our listeners today without exception the
41:50people that led the opposition to stop the evil things that were being done in
41:56america it was always christians it was always pastors it was always the
41:59religious leaders who based on what the bible taught they said we have to stop
42:04This is not right for America because not what the Bible says and we should do what the Bible says here in America
42:09The reason evils always stops were because of Christian whether we talk about the slavery
42:16Slave trade that the slavery industry in America. What are we talking about civil rights?
42:20What do we talk about in the land removal you pick an evil you want and I will point out the Christians the pastors the ministers
42:27Who are the ones leaving the opposition?
42:29Ultimately to stop those things in America and and the reason that we would even argue from all builders perspective that
42:34But history matters so much because the more we study history, the more we realize that
42:40when Christians who pay attention, who read their Bible, when they get involved in the
42:45process, it makes America a more godly nation, it makes America a better nation, which is
42:50why we've been able to enjoy so many blessings.
42:52And the reason that we are seeing so many problems in our nation today is because for the last
42:57many decades, Christians have not been a part of the solution.
43:01We have been a part of observing, maybe of complaining, but we've not been a part of
43:05the solution.
43:06And if we study history, we would know that the only way that we can stop this evil is
43:11when Christians wake up and get involved in our part of the solution in the process.
43:16Very well said.
43:17So in your view, and let me just say this guys, wallbuilders.com is a website, wallbuilders.com.
43:23It is worthwhile for you to arm yourself with the information and the accurate retelling
43:29of history for your families.
43:32I use some of the things that that that
43:35Volbuter's presented even a book that Tim wrote
43:38as a textbook in teaching my children
43:40as we disciple our children from home.
43:42So I definitely commend them to you
43:44as a resource center to bolster your families
43:48in learning a proper view of history for our nation.
43:52But I want to ask you, Tim,
43:54why do you think people like John Adams, John Quincy Adams,
43:57Charles Francis Adams, Adams family,
43:59as a whole these people have kind of been relegated to or sideline marginalized or completely ignored
44:06in discussions about American history in our country.
44:09I think it would be a maybe different answers for different people because I think some people,
44:17one of the things that I've often told people is in opposition you deal with two kinds of people
44:22in opposition. It's either the intentional or the ignorant and some people just don't know,
44:28but some people are it's it's maybe more of a Bible talks about casting your prose before swine
44:33right like they just they don't value truth and so they don't care what is true they're going to promote
44:38their agenda right howard vid who 1980 writes his famous book a people's history the United States
44:45he was an intentional guy he knew he was lying about america he knew he was lying about the
44:49founding fathers of christian columbus and all these people that today are villainized
44:53he's one of the lead promulgators of those lives that's where the modern narratives we know
44:58today about america and the time of the evil he's the guy that started so many of
45:02those lives released
45:03repopularized them in the nineteen eighty
45:06i think some people have ignored the atom family simply they just didn't know
45:09the story
45:10and so they repeat what they know and they just didn't know the atom's family but
45:13then there are certainly some people
45:15who are intellectually dishonest
45:17and because
45:19it doesn't fit the narrative they want to promote right if it for example if you
45:23go back john adams with the committee of five in
45:26in the original continental congress when they come up with a declaration john
45:29adam's worth five men members
45:31put into our coming up with a declaration
45:33in the original draft of the declaration
45:35the largest grievance in the original draft of the declaration
45:39is a grievance against the slave trade in arguing for
45:43the humanity and the equality
45:45of the enslaved individuals
45:48that
45:49was
45:50arguably being the largest i was the most significant thing
45:53to jefferson as he's drafting this to to maybe john out of franklin and sherman
45:57livington the five guys who are together so putting all these thoughts
46:00together
46:01the most significant thing
46:03is we have to end the slave trade because these are human that are being
46:06enslaved and and in the slave trade that it is awful people this has to stop
46:11that the the reason i became significant
46:14that doesn't fit the modern narrative
46:17of the founding fathers maybe didn't like some of the evil of slavery or the
46:21slave trade and people might argue just to kind of finish some of that thought they
46:25might argue well but that didn't make it the final draft and the reason was John
46:28Hancock who was the president of congress so they would only include the final draft
46:31that was unanimously agreed to and George in South Carolina both said we don't think
46:36that grievance is necessary but 11 of the 13 colonies voted in favor of that
46:40Greek is the vast majority the founding fathers were not people that were
46:45promoting and wanted to see the expansion of slavery in fact the vast majority
46:48came out saying that we want to see slavery eradicated. We want to see the the abolition
46:54of slavery in general. And this is where John Adams specifically doesn't fit the modern
47:00narrative where the argument today is that America is fundamentally evil, that America
47:05was both on racism, that the Founding Fathers taught maybe even the revolution to to protect
47:10the institution of slavery. That doesn't fit the narrative if you actually know who these
47:14people were and this is where I think it's also worth just everybody listening if you go
47:19and look at the picture we kind of know it as a sign or a declaration.
47:22I got to interrupt him because we are coming to the end of the program.
47:28I don't want the music to cut you off and the show in the cut you off.
47:31But all this means is that I got to have you back because we have to do a follow up on
47:35this wallbuilders.com ladies and gentlemen is where you need to go.
47:42The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American
47:47Family Association or American Family Radio.

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