The North-Carolina standard., 1849-07-11
Correspondents of the New York Express.1

. Qu1acY, Mass j June 25. !
nave taken another of my semi-monthly rambles
from the heat of the city, the atgues and the nces-
SAINT labor OF the printingofce, and beyond the cry
and reach of "Copy;' and yet from that xed habit
which makes our g second nature,' following alike
the bent of vocation and inclination together by re-
cordng what see and feel. The scene before me is
one of grand contrast, to the bricks and mortar of
Wall street, old ancestral house filled with ances-
trail Portraits by Blackburn, Smybert, Copley, and
others, such as one not often beyond the old
Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Virginia.
States starting together in the great struggle for Co
onial rights and independence, and yet strange to
say, dlverging from each other since, until they
seem almost as wide as the poles apart If one could
but more deeply Undue the present with the past
age-the Adamses and Quinceys, the Otses and
Hancocks, of this State with the Henrys, the Lees
and Jetfersons, of Virginia-how much might it do
to soften existing asperties, and to bring each other
nearer some common platform. know not at which
of the two things to be most snrprsedthe alienation
of such old and tried friends, the subject of that
separation. There must be faults on both sides.
prosperity has worked out its usual effect of destroy
ing those natural afnities, moral and social, which
with nations as with persons, only kept warm and
healthful through the trials of adversely. If this
separation can be traced back the old political COM
bats between " federalism" and ''Anti-F Federalism
between the parties of the elder Adams and Thomas
Jefferson, much of it, also, may be, to the great
leaders themselves-men, who, though once the best
OF friends became in the heat of the times, the worst
VI eLeulleS. we OF the preSenc DAY, noWeteF, HSuI
pro6tably remember the closing reconciliation of these
remarkable men-'s green spots in memory's waste "
and the impressive example seen in their peaceful
descent to their graves, both upon the day. and
that day the Anniversary OF that national lndepend-
ence which they had done so much to secure. The
Monticello letter of Ex-President Jefferson, in
sponse to the letter of ExPresdent Adams,-the one
written to orete the approaching death of the mother
OF his children and the wife Of his ove-a woman as
near perfection as, perhaps, fra mortality ever
be-and the reply, in spirit of generous and Chris
tlan condolence may we'll teach all that the for
gveness of injuries is the very highest of moral
obligations.
The following is an extract from Mr.. Jeffersons
letter: as
MONTICELLO, November 13, 1918.
fatal event, of which your letter gave ominous
torebodIng. Tried, myself in the school of affection,
by the loss of every form of connection which Can
rive the human heart, know we'll and feel what you
have lost, what you have suffered, suffering and
have to endure. The trials have taught me,
that for ills innumerable, time and silence the
only medicines. l will not therefore by useless
doences open afresh the suces of your grief, nor,
although minging my tears with yours, will say d
word more where words vain; but that it is some
comfort to both that the time is very distant,
at which we are to deposite, in the cerement,
our sorrowing and suffering bodies, and ascend in
essence to an ecstatic meeting with the friends we
have lovedaRd lost and whom shall still love and
| never lose again. God bless you and support you,
under this heavy affliction.
THOMAS JEFFERSON T.