Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-10-27


say that what have spoken was from no
idle fears of coward. have done.
Mr.. JEFFERSON HOUSE. DEATH, GRAVE
AND MONUMENT.
From the New York Observer
On the summit that commands this en-
chanting view, the mansion was built by
Jefferson when he had wealth to lavish on
his cultivated tastes The house was 100
feet long, and of peculiar form and proper
tons. You enter wide and lofty hall that
was once adorned with works of art which
he had selected with a masters skill in the
high places of the earth; then you pass on
to the spacious dning-roOm with polished
inlaid floor; then to his library, and study,
and parlor; ascend this flight Of stairs, not
wide enough for more than one to walk up
at time, and you find the chamber where
he died on the 4th of July, 1926. The bed
was in a recess, the end of which contained
two cross pieces, and on these was thrown
the mattrass on which he laid himself to
die. 1t was the glOomiest place-that dead
room-that | was ever sin; there was the
strangest gathering of thoughts, crowded Oh
each other, and each claiming to be the true
emotion for the hour and spot. | thought
of liberty and revOlutions-of human great
ness and glory, of philosophy, and religion,
and fidelity, and death, and hereafter-of the
soul of a mighty man struggling with the
letters of the flesh, and rushing away with
them into the darkness of an untrled future,
in the presence of the Infinite, in whom the
wisdom of men and angels is lost as drop
that falls OH the ocean; before whom the
soul of the unhoy shrinks away, and finds
the rags of human glory and the fig leaves
Of philosophy to be no covering when the
eye of the Holy One searches the spirit.
Such thoughts as these pressed me as |
stood in the chamber whence the soul OF
Jefferson fled to iudgment.-The mansion,
now owned by Capt. Levy, is falling into
decay; it was sold, and all his furniture, for
his creditors, Jefferson having died insol-
vent, and almost the only relic left of a man
whose name is identified with his country's
history as a devoted patriot, and a distin-
ouished President, is bust of Noltaire,
which stands here a tutelar divinity of this
deserted dilapidated house.
As YOU descend the mountain, YOU pass
an enclosure without gate, that contains
the grave of Jefferson; and more neglected,
wrctched burial place you will seek i'll vain.
If CampbcII's last man had been buried
here, he would not have been less cared for.
The wife of Jefferson, torn from him
by death" ten years after their early mar
riagc, lies here.
granite obelisk, battered much by pill
.sri,to, bat without or ePiteph, Is
doubtless the monument of Jefferson. 1t
was here placed by his executors ana the
panel on which was 10 De inscribed lle ep-
ltaPh he wrote, tor himself has never hcth
inserted III the stone. was told lhat i IS
lying with the IRON gates designed lof Ihe
enclosure, on the BANK oil the river where
they were landed ana mat no man mas
troubled himself to see that they ever reach
el their deStlhatIoh'
/ mention these i'cts, that those VINO
would honor the memory OF the Apostle oil
Democracy, may STIR themselves to pay re-
spect to his ashes; and those who DO not
respect his name ana ms puncIp'es, may
see how both are esteemed III 'ne region o'
his nome ana ms Iohlo'
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