Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-11-16
GRYAT AMERICANS IN LGTg.

How some cf Our IsIOstriOus Men
ReoAme VfcGims of the TeuHrr
PahsiOM-RnOe. JtfFsTsOR's CO@Ft- !
hhip.
Detroit Free Press
There was another victim to the
tender passion in those days, who
afterward grew famous "a young
gentleman who eventually became
President of the United States,
f" apostle Of Democracy" and sage
of Monticello Mr.. Thomas JEFF
ferson. 1t is hard to contemplate
this calm. collected, uneXcitable
man of politics and scientist in the
light of a lover; but Jefferson was,
in his early years, very inHamma-
ble young gentleman. We are not
left to conjecture on this subject.
We have under his own hand = in
his letters Published By his literary
executor in his "life "a most
amusing account Of his love affairs
when he was q student at William
and Mary College. Nothing more
rollicking, gay, even extravaganza,
comic could be imagined than Ger
tain passages in these epistles-no
tably that in which he describes a
length and in detail how Sdtal
came through a hole in the roc
while he was asleep and taking tn
form of a rat stole his "gemmy
worked garters." His fair enslave
TO whom he constantly refers j
these letters was Miss Rebecc
Burwell, the daughter Of a gentle
| man of Gloucester. He write
about her to his friend, John Pag
ESQ. arterward Governor of vi
ginia, which Office he too was I
. hold. He is neryously fearII
: that somebody will discover WI
his sweetheart is; so after Il
fashion of the time, he bestoV
. upon her a name extract(
from the dictionary OF loY
Belinda. Every fair one then W
Chloe. or Daphne, or Florella; Mi
q 9urwell was Belinda. But Behind
the suitor fears, Is far too pla'
m His secrets will be penetrated, !
At movements watched, his love d
ct covered. Therefore he translat
'n Belinda into Latin, and calls t
Young lady Campana-in-die-~" BE
= ip-Dayr' Greek letters were a
2 occasionally employed to wrap
from profane glance3 the dear on
name. and it WIS even WRIT
backward in Greek, and becon
Adnileb!
We read of these follies Of
afterwards famous man with a G
tain amused interest, and they Sc
- bring the Sage OF Monticc =,
VI, and oyd "apostlc Of Democracy =
,,,le GREAT dcal nearer to US. lie !,
.Si a. man like ourselves, a9t a mere
nj toric figure. lie is not Fnt,
Presidential messages yet,
:" !. / dancing with Belinda in
"a AnoIlo"--that famous room in
IL Raleigh tavern where the yo'
GROWN to manhood was to org
ize, through the committee OF
Il. respondence, resistance to the b
ish crown. lie is a boy, and Is
disputably in love in this good J
jsT of 1868, and he courts and 81
yes. and tries to capture his pretty /
Pm N sweetheart-a8 pious, it is said
she was beautiful-and, like
a." friend George Washington, i
a, m The young lady will not be cap
Do I'd. There is much reason to
: oil cInde that she gave Mr. Tho
for Jefferson the slipper '-sen'
iSps tSTn him adrifE the most unhapT
lovers-for we soon lind him '
ana ing iis the saddest strain about
line prospects; planning 9 sail
sano :. NJ. voyage to Europe, and a re
RoIS E y, " through the British proylnc
NSr lsin, tho northward and propc
schemes for the future, upconnt
>. with his dear "Compana-in,,'
a,f This lady afterwards married
Jacquelin Amber, the beloved
,- : respected Treasurer OF Virginia
'90 it is q somewhat notable gaot
i'm Miss Mary Cary, who dlsca
/. s'iS. IL. Washington, was united to
alton Edward Amber, brother Of
es gentleman who married Mis-
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