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

Ivan, two of them, ut least, We're fastened
upon him by necessity because he got no
other. The truth is. Harnilton's influence
over him was so well known that no man fit
for the office of state war would accept
either. He was driven to the necessity of
appointing such as would accept, and this
necessity was, in my opinion, the real cause
of his retirement from office; for you may
depend upon it, that retirement was not vol
untary.
"My friend, you and / have passed oar
lives in serious times. know not whether
we have ever seen any moments more serious
than the present. The Northern States are
now retaiiating upon the Southern States
their conduct from E97 to 1900. 1t is
modification tome to see what servile mimics
they are. Their newspapers, pamphlets,
handbills, and their legislatise proceedings
are copied from the examples set them, es-
peciaHy by Virginia and Kentucky. know
not which party has the most unblushing
point. the most lying tongue or the most i'm
pudent and insolent, not to say the most
seditious and rebellious pen.
.1f you desire explanation on any Of the
points in this letter You shall have them
This correspondence, l hope, will be conceal
ed as long as Hutchinsons and divers; but
l should have no personal objection to the
publication oft in the National Intelligencer
[ am, and shall be for life, your friend"
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON
QUINCY, July 10, 1918.
| at is very true, as yeu justly observe l
can say nothing new on this or any other
subject of government. But when Layafette
harangued you and me and John Quincy
Adams through whole evening, in your
hotel, in the Cul-de-Sac, at Paris, and devel-
oped the plans then in operation to reform
| France, though / was as silent as you were,
then thought could say something new to
him."
JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON.
"QUINoY, July Is, 1918.
"David Hume had made himself so fash
ionable with the aid of the court and clergy
atheist, as they called hm. and by his elegant
lies against the Republicans and gaudy daub
ings of the courtiers that he had nearly
laughed into contempt Rapin, Sydney, and
even Locke. 1t was ridiculous and ever
criminal in almost all Europe to speak o
constitutions, or writers upon the principle
or the fabrics ofthem.
: ''Let me now ask you very seriously, ny
friend, where are now, in 1913, the perfec
ton and the perfectibility of human nature
Where is now the progress of the human
mind? Where is the amelioration Of socie
ty2 Where the augmentations of human
comforts? Where the diminutions of human
pains and miseries? / know not whether tn
, last day of DR.. Young can exhibit to a nnin'
unstaid by philosophy and religion flor
hold there can be no philosophy withou
: religion) more terrors than the present stat
: of the world. When, where and how is tn
present chaos TO be arranged into order
/ There is not, there can not be, n create
/ abuse of words than to call the writings Z
: Calender, Paine, Austin and Lowell. or tn
A | speeches of Ned Livingston and John Ran
+; dolph public discussions. The rawlings an
' rantings of Bedlam merit the character q
' well; and yet Joel Barlow was about to r,
cord Tom Paine the great author of tn
a | american Revolution If he was, i desir
D that my name be blotted out forever fror
its records"
e And now Mrs. Abigail insists on havin
4 her rights
n 81 have been looking for some time for
: space in my good husbands letters to add h
$ regards of an old friend, which are still che
e ished and preserved through all II
# changes and vicissitudes which have take
h place since we first became acquainted, an
i will, trust, remain as long as
e "a. ADAMS"
O Nothing, however, in the character of the.
n two men was more contrasting than IL
t way they felt toward Washington. Jeffersc
n ton; not perfect person, certainly, but Il
4. fittest for the period; cold, brave, caution
l and at all times judicial mind Adams T
IS garded Washington as the monopolist
t, popular idolatry, the figure that stood in Il
5. way and hid the same from others, and brol
n out on more than one occasion. There
Or now under lock and key, in the safe of Il
If Pennsylvania Historical society, near Z
l. southwest corner of Spruce and Eigh
If streets, an original letter from John Adar
d against George Washington that have rel
W with a great deal of curiosity 1t is bitt
Y. beyond expression, and it is wise
$ kept from publication, although
ID hear that there are more tn,
id 100 copies in circulation. Turn nc
IN to Jefferson's portrait of George Was
c. ington, which l take from Volume vi
the Government edition.
TO Mr.. MELIsH
MONTICELLO. January Is, 1913.
~ "You expected to discover the differen
at of our party principles in General Washin
at tons valedictory and my inaugural addre
d. not at all. General Washinton did not hs
rs, Dor one principle of Federalism. He "
e; neither an angloman, a monarchist, nor
he separatist. He sincerely wished the peoI
tn to have as much self government as tn
ed were competent TO exercise themselves. L
v only point on which he and ever differ
to in opinion was, that l had more confiden
ut than he had in the natural integrity a
tn discretion of the people, and in the safe
ms and extent to which they might trust the
m selves with the control over their COVER
ty ,nent. He has asseverated to me thousa
n; times his determination that the exist
IT, government should have fair trial, a
an that in support of it he would spend the ],
IT. drop of his blood. He did this the more
peatedly, because he knew General Ham
tons political bias, and my apprehensio
from it. 1t is a mere calumny, therefore,
to the monarchists, to associate General Wa.
/ ington with their principles"
e- No influence, after Washington. gro
On with the years into more steady radiar
N | in the armament Of fame than that of Tho