The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-08-04

A Persrais % JeGerssn.
In the Vice Presidents chair sat MIR.
Jefferson, serene, selfpossessed, and SEEM
ingly passive, surrounded by Senate, two
thirds Of whom were politically hostile al
a time when political hostility was personal,
ard in city where factions ran 80 high
that, as Mr.. Marshall. ajsenatoHGom Ken
lucky, declared. those who happened 10
accompany the Vice-President from The
Senate chamber to the Indian Queen tavern.
where be lodged, often had TO ward of In
suits which were aimed at him. The chair
of the Senate he filled with ease and dig
nifty, dividing his time, when out oil 1t, be-
tween the company Of literary men, par
ticularly foreigners, OF which he was very
fond, and the Philosophical Society, upon
which and on its committees he was Sc
dulous attendant. As politician. The pub
lie never saw him. Addresses he never an
swered. speeches he never made; and yet
rarely has there ever been a patty so dlscl-
plned as that which looked up TO him as
It's chief. This was not by any active ser
vice which he himself performed. IL code
OF resolutions we've to be enounced TO set
tie the faith OF The infant party, Mr.. Madi-
sons iudcious pen was invoked TO give
them shape, and his presence in the Viz
ginia Legislature was required 10 add digni.
~ 10 their utlerance. If the young ener-
gies of the West were to be awakened,
Mr.. Ncholas's holder genius was employed
to impel Kentucky to manifesto still more
impetuous. Through Mr.. Livingston was
the alien law to be attacked; through Mr..
Gallatin the funding system TO be dissected;
and yet while the agents Of the party were
Operating throughout the land in perfect
harmony. and with unexampled industry
and skill, its chief continued, with the
sane disengaged equanimity, to preside IN
the Senate in the morning, and 10 pursue
hi. philosophical amrlsements in The afl-'
noon. No call was heard for caucuses;
and even the hoarse voice Of the Aurora,
the most vehement Of party organs, never
uttered any of those significant notes by
which the wandering emissaries are to be
recalled to the central roost for fresh in
structions. Even now, when MIR. jeaer
sons correspondence, or at least the mos
unguarded portions Of il, have been pub
lished. nothing is so striking as the reserved
attitude he maintains; no edicts are an
nounced. 1t was from his lieutenants, anc
not from himself, that the orders were Il
issue. Can you not induce MIR. Madison
to put his views of these laws upon paper?
! 'Mr. Nicholas has the matter in hand anC
will give you his impressions The east
with which the machine worked can nov
be understood, by seeing how nicely eacf
worknnen was fitted to his post. Thus, OF
the appearance OF Mr.. Hamilton's Mar
celIus' letters, Mr.. Madison was detnilet
to answer them, for there is no person bu
yourself can foil him;'* and mir. Pendle
ton, then to the dignity Of spotless age add
ing the charms Of a style peculiarly gentle
and lucid,
jucunda senectus
RI CUjus Grant mores, qualls facundis, mite
lngenium-
was ordered to issue a review of the GeIII
correspondence. short, simple, and levellet
to every capacity."f But at the time, Ih,
master hand by whom these springs wer,
touched, was invisible to the popular eye
Ii was recognised by its results, not by il
incidents. The party proceeded in it
cycles, not under stroke given fresh q
each emergency, bot under an impulse an
tecedently impaired; acting under the har
mony of a system rather than the stress o
decree. The wisdom of its controller
like that Of the inventor Of the sutomator
chess player, became the more wonderful
because, instead Of being supposed to play
well each particular move. be had the credi
OF having prepared beforehand, with infal
lible accuracy, the combinations Of tn,
whole game WARRIORS State Trials o.
the United States.
Tuck. Life OF JEFF. 80 See Mccartney,
U. LIS, 267.
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