Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-08-11
Jefferson ON II Rebellion and the
Rights OF The sseotlA.
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Col.


PARIS, Nov. 18th, 1887.
Dear SIR-I do not know whether IL il
20 yourself or Mr. Adams, am 10 give nv
thanks for the COPY Of the new Constit1.
ton, beg leave, through you, to place
them where due. 1t will yet be three weeks
before shall receive them from America.
lhere are very good articles 10 it, add very
bad do not know which preponderate.
what we have lately read in the history of
Holland, IN the chapter on the Stakeholder.
would have suficed 20 set me against a
chIei magistrate eligible for a long dura-
ton, IT bad ever been disposed toward
once; and what we have always read of the
election Of Polish kings should have for
ever excluded the idea Of one continlabls
for life.
Wonderful is the eject of iapudeut and
perseEering lying. The British ministry
hare SO long hired their gsze,tsefs to re-
peat and model into every form lies about
our living IN anarchy, that the world has
at length believed them; the English ma ton
has believed them; the ministers them
selves have come to believe them; and
what is more wonderful, we have believed
them ourselves. Yet where does that aua
archy exist-Wbers did it ever exist. az
cept in the single case of Massachusetts.-
And can history produce an instance of q
rebellion SO hOuOrably conducted. I saw
nothing 0: its motives; they were founded
IN ignorance. not wickedness. God forbid
that we should ever be twenty years with.
out such rebellion. The people cannot
always be we'll infoI med. The part which
is wrong will be miscoustruced in
proportion to the Importance Of the facts
they mIscUDce;Te. IF the reElsin otfiat
under such misconceptions, it is letha:gy,
the forerunner of death to the public hbsr-
ty. We have had thirteen States indepeu-
dent for eleven years, There has been one
rebellion; that comes 20 the rebellion in q
century and a half for each State. What
country before ever existed century aud
a half without rebellion? And what
country can pr5ser7e its liberties, If its
rulers are not warned, from time TO time
that this people preserve the spirit or re.
sistance.-Let them take arms; the remedy
Is to set them right as to facts. Pardon
and pac:iy them. What signify a few
lives lost in century or two. The tree of
liberty must be refreshed from time to
/ time, with the blood of patriots and trait,
| ors-it is its natural manure.
an, with much affection, dear sir.
your most obedIeut and most humble ser.
| want,
THoHAs JEFfERsoN.
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to David
Hartly.
PARIS. July End 1877.
An instruction in ons Of tbs thirteen
States in the course of eieYen years that
they have existed, amounts 10 one in any
Z af in hnH
three years-say century and a half
This would not be near as mauy as have
| happened in every other government that
| has existed so that we shall have tbs dit.
/ ference between light aud a heavy 10Y
! eminent as clear gain. l have no fear but
! that the result of our experiment will be.
that men may be trusted to govern them
| selves without a master. Could the con.
! trary of this be proved, should conclude
either that there was no God, or that hS
was malevOlent SeiDG.
have The honor TO be, dear sir, yout
must 0Gedient and most humble servant.
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
And IN letter % T. II pkipsou. written
; from Paris. March 18th, 1889. in speaking
/ Of the Constitution Of 1857, Mr.. Jetfsrsun
| says:
What / disapproved from the first mo.
ment also, was the want ofa billy of rights
to guard liberty against the legislative
as we'll as the executive branches of the
government; that is to say, to secure free
dom in religion, freedom of the press, free
dom from monOpOles, freedom from IN.
lawful imprisonment, freedom from g PEI
mOnent military, and trial by jury 10 eli
cases teterminabls by the laws Of the
land