The Litchfield County post., 1826-07-18
COUNTY POST.
TUESDAY, (MORNING,l JULY 1s.

impressions we inserted the death of the Hlus- trious JEFFERSON, who died about mid day of July Fowth 1sse. Perhaps the histo- i. " of the world does notrecord acoincidence so sublime, and so highly interesting, as the death of these two great men upon this me- morable day. "There is no tear" says a CO., temporary "to be shed at their exit; for the gratitude to Heaven for preserving them so long, has drmshsit ere q. .jsR;' and we may add, . there is a triumph in the thought that they di- ed on the Fifficth anniversary ofthat day which by their labours had become dear and sacred to the hearts of their greatful countrymen.-- The spirits of these great men were kindled at the same political altar, and ever glowed \ with the same patriotic fervour. At the com
 mencement of their glorious career they were
 united, ,and although subsequent political events
 for short time estranged them from each
 other, in their death" they were not divided. ''So astoning coincidence as the contempo-s Franeous death, by natural causes, of these two great men of the North and South--the only survivors of the committee which reported the Declaration of Independence-the two
 first Vice Presidents and the second and third
 Presidents of the United States-breathing
 their last on the Jubilee of the Independence they were greatly instrumental in declaring--
 has excited an universal sensation. No lam guage can exagerate it--no reason account for it. Itis one of those events which has no ex- ample on record, and, as ;a beauteous moral,
 must forever stand alone on the page of tis- tory" @
 The death of MT. Jefferson is thus noti- ced in letter from his grandson to gen. tleman in New- York.
 Monticello, July 4, 1926.
 have withheld my letter to announce,
 not, as I had vainly hoped, my beloved grandfather's restoration, but, alas his
 death. He expired this day, 10 minutes before 1 P. M. have to return for him,
 his and my own eternal gratitude for the comfort and consolation which the unex- ampled kindness of yourselves and the
 New York committee afforded him in his
 last moments. He died, as he had lived,
 the same calm, serene, benevolent, great man--cheerfally committing his soul to his | God, and his child to his country grati-
 fed in his only wish that this day and hour
 shonld be the moment of his death.
 TIL RANDOLPH" THOMAS JEFFEHsoN was born in Ches. terfeld County, Virginia, on the 2d day O II April, 1743; and was, at the time of hi. Y death, S3 years 8 months and two days old < His family were among the earliest emil lgrants to Virginia; of which colony his .. lgrandfather, Thomas Jefferson, was native. His father was named Peter Jefferson, and was known as one of the Commissioners F for determining the bounAury bctwccn vir. n iginia and North Carolina, in the year l747s Q from whom he derived an extensive ant Q valuable estate. &
 T T Extract ofra letter from Charlottesvill \ .JulyA.
 Mir Jefferson was sensible of tho ap
 proach of death. He was evidently grafti x fled at living to see the 4th of July, whicf
 it is said he expressed intelligibiy, thougl D having lost the power of speech. He diec Q without pain. .the spark of life seeming rath. : CT to go out of itself by lack of fuel, than
 Ito be blown out. The Declaration of In. ' dependence was reading in Charlottesville { at the minute of his dissolution, and ne r r doubt at many other places.
 s University, July 4. {, 5 MT Jefferson departed this life to-day at : Eone o'clock. How singular coincidence : of circumstances! The same day has wit. 7 messed the dawn of his glory, and the tor. animation of his glorious career. During his illness he constantly expressed aawish
 to live to see another 4th of July; and
 though he has been speeches. ever since yesterday evening he intimated by signs great satisfaction at being permitted to do . so. He was perfectly resigned to the will of Providence, and declared that shesw wish ed to die in peace with all the world \ Speaking of the death of Mir. Jefferson, F lthe decease of Mr. Adams was not then l known in Philadelphia,) the editor of the National Gazette remarks: s
 The Southern mail of this tay brincs an article of intelligence, which must pro- duce strong sensation throughout our Union. and wherever tho history of Amer
 ican freedom is known and cherished.
 Authentic information was yesterday re-
 ceived by the p0StAmaster in Baltimore, of
 tho death of TnoMAs JEFFERSON, who ex-
 pired, at Monticello, at ten minutes before
 one o'clock, on the Fourth of Jaly, with