, 1870-07-11

] WAlsCoat WILL AApsl Alui as II a1uCk u5 II LIZ
brief view We had, some remnants Of EN-
broide1y. Tie silence Of the football, The
venerable figure, the old costume, and ths
short space in which that image glided past the
glass door, made strange and mysterious i'm
pre- eseion upon us. It was all that I ever saw
Of the sage of Monticello"
DR.. Maupin, now at the head Of the faculty
OF the University, told me that he we'll re
membered seeing Jefferson and Lafayette
wa1k across the lawn Of tho uniyersity to
gether.
AS A SE1GHBoH.
Jefferson drew The plan Of the Episcops
Church, at Charlottesville, aud was the en-
courager OF all new enterprises Of every Kind
Je7e1Eon's OyerBeer. Bacon, WIS residing il
Tngg County, Kentucky, in 1851, thirty-fvs
years after the death OF his old employer, ant
good hint was obtained from him by Mr.
Pierson.
Jefferson gave s12 an acre for the land OF
which the University OF Vrginia was placed
He measured, with rule shlch he always car
zied in his pocket, the ground for the founda
tion OF that edifice, and he rode from Monti
cello to the universityto see how the worl
was progressing.
During the 1nrkest times Of detraction auG
SANDER Jefferson preserved the respect ani
affection Of his neighbors, and he thus ad
dressed them late in life:
1.-THE part which have acted On tho theatre
of public life has bean before them, and tc
their sentcnco submit it but the Testimony
Of my natiye country, OF the individuals who
have known me in private life. to my conduct
in Its various duties and relations, in tho more
| grateful, as proceeding from eye-Hitnesses and
observers, from trieFs Of the yicinage. OF
you, then, my neighbors, may ask, in the
~ L., r1A11 FE1N1- 1LuA.A r
whom have defrauded? Whom have op-
pressed, or Of whose hand have I received a
bribe to blind mine eyes therewith7' On your
verdict rest with conscious security
STATE AND pESuBr.
When Jefferson sold Ills library to Congress,
to 1eplace that which the British had burned,
the books made sixteen wagon loads Of three
thousand pounds per load, and they were sent
from Monticello to Washington, ono hundred
and twenty-five miles; his grand-daughters
! helped TO pack the books. Chancellor Wythe,
Jet1ersons old preceptor in the Law, gave tie
hitter his library, when be died, to fill the
| place OF the old ono.
| After Jefferson returned from Washington,
he was oppressed with many viatorH be had
tlirty-six stalls for horBes, IN his stable, but
often had to send horses of to another place.
| In the early summer there was great travel
from Richmond and the South to tho Springs,
and then Jeterson's house was fuller than the
tavern. Madison nnl Monroe werc oftpn there
together, and it made much curiosity to sec
the three Presidents walking together.
Tho calls Of hospitality aud tbs extrsva-
gance Of his grandchildren finally oyerwhelm-
cd Jefferson with debt; Governor Wilson G.
Nichols, whose daughter one Of his grnndsons
sr1,%
Jenerson drove four horses to his Own trav-
elling carriage, md . postilhou followed be-
hind on another horse; these Lorsea wore
named Diomede, Brimer, Tecumseh, Yelling
ton, and Eagle; tho carriage IVES built at Mon
ticello, from the Presidents own model, the
woodwork, blacksnithing, and printing wero
all done by his OWL wo1kmen, and tho plating
was dono III Richmond. lie never trusted q
driver with the lines, but two poatiiIions scat
ed in the saddle, guided each pair Of these
blooded steeds.
FOURTH OF JULY sQUBAL.
Tho frst paragraph Of the Declaration Of
Independence is indicative OF the broad aud
philosophic character Of JeTeEson's mind:
ssWhen, in the coursa Of human events, it be-
comes necessary for one people to dissolve the
political bands which have connected them
with another, and to assume among the Pow
era Of the earth the separate and equal station
to Which the laws OF nature and OF naturo's
God eutit1e them, decent respect for the
opinions of mankind requires that they should
declare the cauaes which Mpel them to Sep
arahun.'
Observe in this the absence Of proyincialsm,
aud the disposition to make the trifling quarrel
Of a remote and small Western series OF COM
munities subject Of consequence TO tho
earth. The gravity with which Jefferson ap-
preached this subject shows that the American
Revolution WAS to him not merely q series Of
fights and 3 subject for domagoguosy, but in
his largo humanitarian mind he insisted that
it might be made the cause Of the liberties Of
all the earth.
There is also d political significance IN tho
opening words akin to that with which oyary
new party ia formed in modern times. No
s1artness, no frivo1ty,-as II to show that
tho cause Of the young State was simply
matter Of the time belng,--markH this declara-
ton, but it begins with tho largo aasurance Of
4 human principle, now for the first time put
into tue body Of ii: Intelligent State and sont
on its conquerug way. This was Jefferson
amongst politicians, the grestess of movers,
tho practical pupil OF Housaosu, and w1,u
tb;rt ~ him Ronesc.n WAS . droamv Joh,
tho Baptist. while he Was. auonpst men. tho
absolute evangelist and tile worker out Of
miracles, and the bigotry Of Federalists had
nearly cruciGed him at last-
Take tho next sentonce-
"Ho ho1d tlese sr1tha +, ha ua,,.av;a.,,t
that I'LL men arc created equal; that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain inalion-
a4e nSu,s, .1., lna1 aMo19st tnese arc NE, lib
snrn thasc r;ah.s eovarn1pa,s ~ ~ ;t at; ~ se
amongst mon. deriving their inst noyera from
the consent OF the government
Sec in this with what originality and power
of pu1poso the new politician cuta ailr,ft from
the theories of al tho older opes. He boldly
transfers tho right OF aovereipn,v from, tho
nc,son tn .ba crowd ponasaar hal a1,ooso1
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