The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-11-10
The Tale of Hot Tea.
A Flood of Light on an Old Time Cues
ton of State
New York Times.1

New York Times1
1t is pleasant to find among foreigners an
intimate familiarity with our history and
hearty appreciation of onr great men. Still
more pleasant it is when industrious foreigners
by their careful investigations, make new dis
coveries concerning the early history OF the
United States. Light has been lately thrown
by an italian newspaper, not only upon the or
igin of our constitution, but upon the personal
character of those two eminent Americans,
"Giorgis Washington" and "Thommaso Jefer-
son"and we can not be too grateful to our e.
teemed Neapolitan cotemporary for its vslua-
BILE contribution to American history. The
italian facts thus brought to light are briefly
as follows:
At the period when Washington was desir-
GUS of granting constitution to the Ameri-
cans, and of resigning the dictatorship-that
magnanimous act to which the resignation Of
Garibaldi OF the dictatorship of Naples alone
affords paralell-the leader of the socialists
and the chief opponent of Washington was the
celebrated Thommaso Jefferson, man of great
ability, but a Lutheran hereto and an enemy
to order. The two great men, although politi-
cal opponents were personal friends, and
Washington frequently consulted Jefferson asa
to the provisions Of the new constitution. A
to one matter it was for long time impossible
to arrive at any agreement. Washington was
determined that ! me leglslatlIve Iy BODY should
hexibly in favor Of one chamber only. 1t was
in these circumstances that Jefferson one
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