The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-04-03
TWO FRIENDS,
MEN OF THE REyoLr1IoN.

MIN or The RENOLl llONs
The Atlantic Monthly for April has a |
very interesting article from the pen OF
James Parton, full of historic incident of
the public days of Thomas Jefferson.
Jefferson and his brother-in law, Dabney
Carr, we're prominent in the action taken
by the Virginia House of Burgesses, to
unite the colonial legislatures IN opposi-
ton to the entertainments of the mother
country. The following paragraph, re-
lating to what followed upon this gather
ing, will interest the reader:
The session being ended, Jefferson and
Carr resumed their professional duties.
If they rode homeward together, as is
probable, Jefferson was obliged to return
soon to the April term OF the general
court ut Williamsburg; and his brother
in-law had causes TO plead IN the country
court at Charlottesville, the village that Law
within sight Of Moticello. Dabney Carr,
then eight years married, had, Us I have
said, his little house full Of little children.
| The sixth WAS born about the time of
| coming home from his frst session, flushed
with the triumph of his maiden speech
| He was compelled to leave home again
before his wife was well enough to sit up
Her spirits sank with the thoughts of his
leaving her, and she was oppressed with
the forebodings of evil. He took his leave
of her and mounted his horse for his Jour
ney to Charlottesville. When she heard
| his horses steps upon the road under her
window, she raised herself feebly in bed
! to catch look at him, but she could only
| get high enough to see his hat as it
swayed to the motion Of the horse. Soon
after reaching Charlottesville he was
seized with malignant type of typhoid
fever, the course Of which was SO rapid
that he could not be moved even so far
as Monticello, and he died before letters on
heard that he was in danger.
the news Of the desolating stroke came
near depriving his children of mother
She lost her reason for a time, during
which she could only see the moving phan.
tom of hat, as she had seen her husband.
when he passed her window. When rea.
son returned, and for some weeks after
still that maddening hat would not vanish
from her sight. 1t was long before sh,
could bend her mind TO the new dutie'
which the event devolved upon her.
In this sudden desoation of her young
life, her brother was literally tower OF
refuge to her for he took her, and all her
helpless brood, home to Monticello; which
tbenceforth became their home, rs he their
father. lie reared and educated all those
six children--three sons and three daugh.
ters-with the same care tenderness and
nberality as his own. He nurturcd their
, infancy no directed their studies; he
guided their entrance into active lite tw,
Of the sons pursuing with distinguis hec
success his own profession. Nor did h
. ever, during the long series of years wher
y be had offices to give away, quarter one G
q them, or one of their children, upon til
= public. When he reached home he foun
. his friend had been buried at Shadewel
=, Mindful of the romantic agreement o
!; their youth, that, whichever died frs,
should bury the other under the giant oal
, of Monticello, beneath which they ha,
read and talked during long summer days
he caused the remains to be removed an,
. unused over an inscription proper for tn
tombstone. He wrote one, which recorded
the usual brief outline of human life
! and ended it with these words "To hi
, virtue, good sense, learning and friend
ship this stone is dedicated by Thoma
Jefferson, who, Of all mon living, lovec
him most