The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-04-03
RE CIR CEMENT FROM
WA8HlNGTON'S CABINET.
Meanwhile Jefferson was longing for

JEFFERSON'S RE CIR 6A1ENT FROM
WAsHlNGTOH's CABINET.
Meanwhile Jefferson was longing for
retreat with ever.growing desire.
Hamilton, too, wearied OF the vain effort
to maintain his prodigious family up
on his little salary, had made up his
mind to return to the New York bar,
AID only remained for while longer,
like Jefferson, in compliance with
Washlugt ms esroest entreaty. Ham.
ilson, however, was not 50 painfully sit.
uated As his colleague, for he had 80
clety GU his side. The people he of:
tenest met approved his course and
valued his character. Jefferson had
few sdherents among the rich and the
educated. 1t Is only the human race
in general that is the gamer BY the
ideas Of which he was the exponent.
Glasses may be benefited, or may think
themselves benefited, by abuses, by
privilege, b, "proteotieD," by "oaste; )"
and those classes often know enough
to fatter and retain the occasional
gifted men-the Canuiogs, the Peels,
the Hamiltous-whom BIRTH, breeding,
or circumstances throw 10 their way.
Fair play aud equal rights are the
common aud eternal inter. at of human
nature. No man has ever been SO
loved in the United States, nor loved
60 long, as Thomas Jefferson was by
these who had no interest apart from
this common interest, aud no hope Or
desire except to share the common lot
of man. But the elegant class of Phil
adelphia in 1893 held him in aversion !;
for the commerce of the United States,
By which We were chiefly sustained,
was in British hands. Genet was war
ring upon that Commerce, and Jefer
aon had to share she edia.a Of hia ire
reprsenbls zeal. His letters to Madi-
son and Monroe of this year show US
that he felt aoutely the alienation OF
tho people around him, and saw, too,
how poWerless he was to stem the tide
of reaction which the guillotine in
France and Genet in America had
caused.
Ali his confidential letters of 1898
are Of this tone. But as often as he
alluded to tho necessity under which
! he rested Of retiring, General Wash.
ington urged him to remain with such
importantly that he knew not how to
resist. When the President discover.
cd that he could not prevail, he begged
him at least to defer his resignation ;
for, he said, "like man going to the
gallovs, I am willing to put it of as
long as I CAM Jefferson remained in
Office through the year. "Yesterday,
be ~rste to his daughter. December %,
1893, t'the President made what l hope
will be the last set at me to continue
| but IN this I am now immovable by
any considerations whatever" So in
deed 1t proved. He could not oontin'
ne without ruin; and such vas the
urgency of the case, that his going
home did but postpone the catastro'
phe. The President accepted his res
ign,tion January l, 1894. "The opiu'
ioo," wrote General Washington ou
tins occasion, (which l had formed Of
! your integrity and talents, and which
dictated your origin.l nomination, has
been confirmed by the fullest expert
euce, and both have been sminently
displayed in the discharge OF your du
IT," Five day, after he was on hi,
way to Monticello, having held the post
of Secretary of State two months les
than four years.-Atlantic for April
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