The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-04-22

tensive. In due7ime, ; he was happily
! married tosa lady suited te bimin char
acter and in fortune, with whom h'
y lived in happiness only alleged by, tn,
s anxiety oadsed BY her declining health
Jefferson, like bis father before him
was eminently and peculiarly man o.
the people, He was 2 democrat by ma
, ture.. He was democrat because ht
was truly intelligent man because hs
saw things as they are. and not as they
seem. He was a democrat because he
could not Re taken in by the shows, and
illusions twhIch at once deceive the
majoI bf educated mankind. His
heaa l6uld have told, him even if his
great mind had not discerncd it
4 Therefore, during the v hole contention
-1lbetween George the, Third. and the
4 people of the American. Colonies, he
sided naturally and warmly with the
peupleD 3 - f45a Liih1s1 -hi,s5 tr2fa
After taking leading part in or
ganizing resistance in Virgins, he was
felected to represent that province in
the Copgress which met in Philadel4
phia, in 1775.. He was no orator.
He never spoke longer sthansten min.
u:es in his hfeO and such addresses as
he did deliver were, entirely in the tone
Of conversation. Nevertheless, there
was something in hisi demeanor aud
character which gave him command
ng.influence in every deliberativs body
to which he belonged. His colleagues
saw that his heart was in the cause, and
that his grasp of the principles involved
in it was complete and strong. We
find him serving on the most import
ant committees in Congress, though he
was almost tie youngest man in that
body; and he received, at length, a
striking proof of theE confluence of
m embers when his pen was employed
to write the Declaration of Independ-
ence That immortal documeDt was,
with. the exception of few words, en-
tirely his work.
We owesto. Dir. Jefferson's s diary two
or three amusing anecdotes relating to
the acceptance of this paper. When
the members were signing the Decla-
ration, Benjamin Harrison, of Virgin
la, an enormously corpuleas man, luok-
ing at the slender, withered form of
Elbridge Gerry, of Massachusetts,
said: 80
"Gerry, when the hanging comes L
shall have the advautagtagel; you'll
kick in the air half au hour after its
all over with mt" ~ +n
1t was about this time, too, that
Franklin achieved one of his ccleSra-
led wittlcisms -'t 20 "' 's' 80!
awe M ust all hang together in this
business" said one of the members.
"Yes," said Franklin, 1--WE must all
hang together, or, most assuredly, we
shall all hang separately 49, '-
In 1779, being then thir,y-six years
of age, at the glootpiest period of the
Revolution, Mr.. Jefferson was elected
Governor Of Virginia. Twice during
the tenure of Office he was obliged to
fly at the approach of the enemy. and
on one occasion Lis whole estate was
laid waste and all his cattle destroyed
or driveR off. It was, doubtless, the
fatigues and anxieties of this period
that fastened the death of Mrs. Jefer
sou-an event. which changed all the
subsequent life of her -'busbond. 1t
was his intention and strong desire, af.
ter the Revolutionary war, to spend
the rest of his days in literary labor
upon his Virginia farm but the death
of his wife weaned him from this pro-
ject, and rendered him willing to ac-
cept once more a public trust In
1888 he went to France to represent
ibis country at the French court Frank |
lin, whom he succeeded there, had won
unbounded popularity, and it was an
arduous task to take his place.
"You replace DR.. Fratkl;n, hear"
said the French Minister for foreiga I
affairs to him, at their first interview.
.aa"No," was Mr. Jefferson's apt reply /;
81 succeeci-no one can replace him."
1t was during the years Immediately
proceeding the French Revolution that
Mr.. Jefferson represented the United |
States in France. He saw and fore
told the coming storm. In his journ-
eys about the country it was his Gus
tom to visit the novels of the peasants,
and he saw mothers endeavoring to ex-
tract sustenance for their children fror,
thistles and weeds; and he marked,
too, with Indignation becoming man,
the heatless Indifference of the mobiles
to the sufferings of their eountrYmen.i
During the first periods of the Revolu
ton he was much consulted by its lead
ers, and he Is supposed to have suggest
ed some of theirmost important meas
ures.
Before the Revolution had degener-
ated into riot and massacre, while it
still seemed noble and hopeful move
ment, he returned home, and was i'm
medIately invited by General w ashing +
ton to accept the place of Secretary of
State. in his, first Cabinet. In this Of
fee, he. was, The colleague of Hamilton,
and wide difference of opinion speed
lily manifested itself between these dis
:. men. n jefferson was
hearty Republican Hamilton was,
with equal sincerity, believer in the
necessity of privileged orders Jeffer- :
son was opposed to everything in the
Government which savored of mon
archical form and state, The conttsts
between these two able persons spread
to their friendsand followers, aud thus
originated in the United States the :
two great parties which have ever since
striven for the supremacy. N SOD
Twelve years passed. Gen.FWash- :
Dgton had passed away from tie scene.
John Adams had served one, term in
he Presidency, and failed to be.re- i
elected. The Democratic rarty tIi-
umphei in 1901, an that triumph t
placed Thomas Jefferson in the Presi. I
Dental chair. Instantly, yefythipg v
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