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**Tough Times for Adams**
John Adams was the second president of the United States.After being the Vice president for 2 terms. His farewell Address to America people warned of the dangers of party politics and sectionalism - pitting North against South, or East against West.Washington also urged Americans"to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." Of the administration of Mr. Adams we shall not, in this place, give a detailed account. Many circumstances conspired to render it unpopular. An unhappy dispute with France had arisen a little previously to his inauguration. In the management of this dispute, which had reference to aggressions by France upon American rights and commerce, the popularity of Mr. Adams was in no small degree affected, although the measures which he recommended for upholding the national character, were more moderate than congress, and a respectable portion of the people, thought the exigencies of the case required. Other circumstance, also conspired to diminish his popularity.