American watchman and Delaware advertiser., 1826-11-03
From the Richmond Enquirer.

II.
A Friend has been kind enough to place in our
hands the following correspondence, which we have
no doubt will furnish as much qualification to our
readers it has done ourselves In the letters
Of MIR. Jefferson, we find mas erly refutation OF
The errors which have been SO frequently repeated
as to an important period of his public history In
the mode Of reuting them we also see proof
Of how much Genius is indebted to Method for
some OF its most successful efforts.
! Deur Sir You insist on my giving you the par
ticulars Of my last visit to Monticello, and sight o
the correspondence which led to it. My visit, you
know, was frustrate and melancholy. and ts details
you may suppose. will he sorrowtul and lew The
correspondence being De sined for publication in a
second edition Of Lees Memoirs. will soon be ac
cessibe. In th. time send you copies of
two Of MIR. JeHerson's leticrs-whch cannot fail TO
increase your admiration OF him.
| Upon arriving at Charlottesville, on the eth
| June, although il was reported that MIR. Jefferson
was Sick the account seemed neither SO definite nor
alarming, as to ender proper that should forego
the object Of my journey. l, therefore, addressed
note to him, sgnifying my arrival and readiness
10 await on him next day, or any other day of tha,
week, which might be more agreeable to him
Next morning Mr.. Trst called on me, confirmed
the account had before received, and said that Mr.
/ j. had desired that would dine at Monticello that
,lay or the preceding. The preceding day was the
Thursday before his death, and when it came, 1t
seemed to be the general impression around me
that the lilc OF the Patriarch was in danger l.
theI efore, determined to call in the forenoon, and in
case his indsposltion continued to be serious. to e
urn before dinner to Charlottesville. AS ! ap
preached the house, the anxiety and distress visible
| in the countenance of the servants increased the
Gloom Of my own forebodings and | entered IT un
der no little agitation After The object OF my early
call was made known to Mrs. Randolph, she told me
that although her father had been expecting to
me- he was then too unwell to receive any one II
was but too evident, that the fears OF his daughter
cverbalanced her hopes, and while sympahising in
her DISTRESS could not help sighing, to think that
although separated from him only by thin WALL ]
was never more to behold the venerable man,
who had entered all the walks OF politics and philo
sophy, aud in all was fore most land to whom, the
past and the present, an6 all future ages are, and
will be, so much indebted. However Mrs. Ran
dolph having Left me, 10 attend to her father. soon
returned and observed that she had taken il for
granted that he could not see me but upon her ca
sualiy mentioning my arrival he had desired should
be invited into his chamber. My emotions at ap-
preaching JetSrson's dying bed cannot describe
You re member the alcorc in which he slept. There
he was extended-icebls, PROSTATE; but the fine,
AID clear expression oi his councnance not at all
obscured. At the first glance he recognised me,
and his hand and voice at once saluted me. The
energy o his grasp and the spirit OF his conveTsa-
: ,ion, were such as to make me hope be would yet
rally-and thar the superiority OF mind over matter
in his composition. would preserve him yet longer.
He regretted that should find him SO helpless
said if he got we'll, should see sll the papers he
had promised He talked Of the freshet which was
then prevailing in James River-oi its extensive
deyas,ation-and said he had never known more
destructive one lie soon, however, passed to the
University, cxpa,iated ca lis future uty--said its
cost would not altogether, exceed $4,000 dollars
commended the professors. and expressed sa,isiac-
S on at the progress OF the students. A sword was
suspended al the foo, Of his bed which he told me
was presented to him by Il ,hink} an Arabian Chie
; and tha, the blade was true Damascus. At this
i. time he became so cheerful as to smile, even 10
laughing at remark rade. He alluded to the
probability Of his death--as man would TO Inc
prospec, Of beingScaught in shower-as an event
not 10 be desired but not to be feared Il was 10 DC
apprehended, that the ragerntss with which he cor