The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-12-24

RIGHTEOUSNESS oil the press aSslLsg uyseli,
adding: 81 always loved Jefferson, and still
love him."
..This is enough for me. / only needed
this knowledge to revive toward him all the
affections of the most cordial moments of our
lives. Changing a single word only in DIR.
Franklin's character of him, knew him to
be ALWAYS an honest man, often
great one but sometimes incorrect and pre-
cipitate in his judgments; and it Is known to
those who have ever heard me speak of Mr..
Adams that | have ever done him justice
myself and defended him when assailed by
Others, with the single exception as to politi-
cal opinions. But with a man possessing so
many other estimable qualities, why should
we be dissocialzed by mere differences of
opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
or anything else? His opinions are as
honestly formed as my own. Our different
views of the same subject are the result Of a
difference in our organization and expert
ence.
"No ground for jealousy now existing, he
will certainly give fair play to the natural
warmth of his heart Perhaps l may open
the way in some letter to my old friend
| Gerry, who, j know, is in habitsof the great
est intimacy with him.
Il have thus, my friend, laid open my
heart to yoa, because you were so kind rs to
| take an interest in healing again Revolution
| airy affections, which have ceased in EXPIRES
| sion. Ionly, but not in their existence.
| God ever bless you, and preserve you in life
! and healthr'
! And soon after this letter, to the 4th of
| July, 1926, when they both died afew hours
apart from each other, Adams at Quincy,
| Massachusetts, and Jefferson at Monticello,
Virginia; Adams in his ninety-irst year.
and eferson in his eghty-third: they were
close friends. 1t is to bring back perhaps,
| the most agreeable part of those two lives
that / turn to a few of the old letters
in the sixth volume of jefferson
Complete Works, published by the order OF
the American Congress, from the original
manuscripts in the National library at
Washington City.
DR.. Rush did not, evidently, wait long
before acting on Jeffersons kind wish foI
the restoration of friendship with John
Adams; and Mrs. Abagail, the impulsiys
wife was gracefully eager to make the fer
vent love-match complete. find few o
her letters. but it is evident, from the fac
that Jefferson began soon to send his lov'
to her, that she had quite made peace will
her dear Maria's father.
John Adams was voluminous, ready
almost ravenous writer, and, like his emf
nent son, John Quincy Adams, quick t,
quarrel, but also, like most such natures
full of honesty and truth Many letter
passed, but before / notice those Of Adam
L find one from Jefferson, announc
ing the death of the kind mediator, Dir Ben
jsInin Rush.
THOMAS JEFFERSON TO JOHN ADAMS.
sMoNTIcELLo, january q, 1872
@Here we do little in the fine way, but il
coarse and middling good a great deal
Every family in the country is a rnanufactor
within itself. and is very generally able t
make within itself all the stouter and mid
ding st utis for its own clothing and house
hold use We consider a sheep for ever
person in the family as sufficient to clothe i
in addition to the cotton, hemp, and hs,
which we raise ourselves. For fine stuff W
shall depend on your Northern manufactol
les. OF these, that is to say of compan
establishments. we have none. We use it'll
machinery. The.spinning jenny and loor
with flying shuttle can be managed in
family but nothing more complicated.
"A letter from you calls up recollection
very dear TO my mind. 1t carries me bac
to the times when, beset with difficulties an
dangers, we were fellow-laborers in the SAN
cause, struggling for what is most valuab
:. to man, his right of self-government. Labo
!. ing always at the same oar, with some way
yet passing harmless under our bark, we kne
not how we rode through the storm wit
heart and hand, and made a happy port"
THOMAS JEFFERSON TO JOHN ADAMS
: "MoNTIcELIo, May q, 1918.
RI Another of our friends of 76 is gone, N
a dear sir, another Of the co-sgners Of the i
/ dependence of our country. And bett'
| man than Rush could not have left US, mo
: benevolent, more learned, of finer genius,
1 more honest. We, too, must go, and tn
, ere long. l believe we are under hs
1 dozen at present; | mean the signers of Il
V Declaration. Yourself, Gerry, Carroll, al
t myself are all / know to be Twin
/; am the only one south of the Potomac.
: Robert Treat Payne or Floyd living? 1t
e long since heard of them, and yet do n
e recoilect to have heard of their DEATH
d JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
~ Many letters were written by both in t
: interval, but the first | find from Jol
Is Adams is Dated June 2S 1880.
"QUINcY, June %, 1918.
1--WE have war now in earnest. l lame
: the contumacious spirit that appears alb
. me. But l lament the cause that has. Civ
8 too much apology for it, the total neglect a
e absolute refusal of all maritime protect
II and defense. Money, mariners and soldi
Il WOULD DC at the puDllc service II oniy II
= frigates had been ordered to be built. Wit
= | out this our Union will be brittle chi
- vase, house of ice, or palace Of glass
u II am, sir, with an atfectionate respe
y yours"
4 Here John Adams gives Jefferson 81
" for his opposition to navy, which left
: quite unprepared for the great naval pow
of our foes.
JEFFERSON TO JOHN ADAMS.
10 "MoSTIcELLo, June 81, 1913
at 'Shall we, at our age, become the athle
" of party and exhibit ourselves as gladiat
ye in the arena of the newspapers? Nothing
~ the universe could induce me to it. J
of mind has been long fixed to bow to the jut
i'd ment of the world, who will judge by 1
in acts and will never take counsel from me
~ to what that judgment shall be. If yt
IS objects and opinions have been misundersto
OF if the measures and principles of others hs
IT, been wrongfully imputed to you, as belle
d | thew have been that ycu should leave an Z