The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-05-04
Thomas jefferson.
IForneI's Progress. [

John l.. OSullivan is the most active, have
begun a movement TO erect n colossal statue
Of Jefferson in a conspicuous part Of this
great city. Among those who have been
asked 10 assist and who have consented are
Samuel j. IIlden, Winfield S. Hancock,
Samuel J. Randall, J. 5. Black, George
Bancroft, Charles Gordon Green, Robert NJ.
McLane, Thomas f.. Bayard, A. G.. Thur
man, William McCandless, George b. Nc
Clellan, Horatio Seymour, General Daniel
+. Sickles, Joel Parker John ID. Stockton,
and w. w. Corcoran, and il is believed the
monument will be ready in time for the
opening OF the Worlds Fair, in 1888. That
Fair is now fixed fact; and. although it
has had the usual discouragement-the
same that beset London in 1854, Philadel-
phia in 1876, and Paris in l868-yet, since
the Pennsylvania Railroad has come forward
with such munifcence, adding to and max
ing up the first million of necessary dollars,
other subscriptions will speedily follow.
The Jefferson statue will be dedicated, there
fore, in advance of the next Presidential
election. two years after the celebration of
the anniversary of the capitulation of Lord
CORVALLIS at Yorktown, which takes place
in 1881, and one yeaB after the ceremonies
at Philadelphia, in the autumn of 1882, the
bicentennial of the settlement of tina. city
by William Penn. Should the movement
to remove the remains of William Penn
from Buckinghamshire, about twenty miles
from London, whore they rest in plain and
neglected Quaker churchyard, to Fair
mount Park, near Philadelphia, be crowned
with success, that will be another fitting in
PRODUCTION to the honors that will hail the
hundredth year of the peace between In
gland and America.
Thomas Jefferson first saw New York in
the spring of 1776, ten years before the Dec
larstion of American Independence, when
the whole State of New York had less than
10000 inhabitants (now nearly 5,000,000),
and be was only twenty-three years old.
He had never been outside of his native
province. He had witnessed the first great
struggle in the Virginia House of Burgesses,
at Williamsburg, Va, in 1865, between
Patrick Henry and the Tories. on the Stamp
Act. Patrick Henry was then twenty-nine
years old, member Of the Virginia Assem-
bly,, and was the guest Of young Jefferson
Madison was seventeen years old, and George
Washington thirty-thre and aBrtish officer,
as young Herry's voice rolled through the
hall sin torrents of sublime cloquence."
Jefferson was first alarmed, and then
swept away with the rest, and the Tories
were very indignant. The resolutions against
the Stamp Act were all carried. the last one
by only one majority; and the Kings At
torney- General, Peyton Randolph, brushed
past the young. red-haired student, Jeffer-
son, exclaiming loudly: "By God L would
have given 500 guineas for single
votep' This work DONE Patrick Henry,
suspecting nothing, rode to his country
home, while Jefferson staid behind. The
next morning another Tory member of the
House came in, and ransacSed the journals
tor precedent and found one in favor of
expunging Henry's offensive resolutions.
Jefferson saw the plot, and. as he was not
member and the great orator was gone, he
could not stop the Tory revenge, and the
resolutions were eXpunged. In the spring
of 1766 he commenced his first trip to Phil
adelphia and New York. 1t was rough
trip. He had to cross wide and swollen
rivers before he got to Annapolis, Md.
great freshet was pouring over unbridged
water-courses. His horse ran away with
him twice. A drenching rain poured down
on him day and night, and he could find
no shelter. On his third day he was almost
drowned in trying to ford the swollen river
Pamunkey. At last he got to Annapolis
the Capital of Maryland, town of 1000
now 5,744 inhabitants. He had long ride
to Philadelphia, and when he got there
population in 1863, 1880, now IN 1881,
957 ,00O), he had himself inoculatedi- there
was great panic about the smallpox then
as now. Arriving at New York he found
clean, crooked, little, half Dutch town, and
was much amused at all he saw. At that
time two men, afterward great figures in
American history, were unknown lads:
pnwe hrr IN
February 6, 1856, was not ten years old. and
Alexander Hamilton, born in the Island OF
st. Croix, British Colony, in 1857, was
living there, aged eleven years. When we
next hear of Jefferson, he member OF
the House of Burgesses himself, in INA, a
prescribed man, Democratic leader, and
with Henry full of ardent patriotism. Bos-
ton was prescribed by George II.for throw
ing the tea into the sea, and 'the cause of
Boston became the cause of all" The in
FAINT city became the target of British perse'
cution and American love- The port was
closed by the King on the LIST of June, IVA,
and the people began to suffer for food. All
the Colonies set something-sorne money,
others flour, others provisions. Jefferson
was leader, active, bold, ubiquitous in the
great work. count over what the South
did log years ago with glow of pride,
under his glorious lead. What a record
this in the delightful pages of Parton:
"All that summer Boston, suffering, i'm
poyerished Boston, lay upon every heart
Each Province, County, city, town, neigh
borhood, sent its contribution to supply the
needs of the people, suddenly deprived of
their occupation. The port being closed on
the LIST of June, the day of the yesr when
the stock of food in country reaches its
lowest point, the farmers could not at first
be as liberal as they wished; but
they did what they could. Windham,
Conn, began the work of relief Before
the month of June was ended Windham
sent in, with cordial letter of applause and
sympathy, "a small flock of sheep, which, at
this season, are not so good as we could
wish, but are the best we had
Two hundred and ffty-eight was
Windham's notion of the number of sheep
that go to "a small flock Groton, Mass,
sent forty bushels of grain; Wrentham, one
load of grain; Pepperill, forty bushels;
Charlemont, two barrels of -four; Farming
ton, between 800 and 400 bushels of rye and
corn; and fertile Wethersfeld, nearly 800
bushels of grain, with promise of more after
harvest. New Jersey soon wrote. to say
that she, too, was making contributions, and
would be glad TO know which would be
most acceptable TO a suffering sister, cash, or
produce. Cash, replied Boston, 'if perfect
ly convenient North Carolina promptly
sent two sloop-loads of provisions. The
Marblehead fishermen were so liberal as to
forward DDS quintals of good eating fish, one
barrel and three quarters of good olive oil,