The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-05-04

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V;rg;3ia contributed about 10 600 bushels OF
what one forwader styled in his letter, DO
nation grain besides several sums Of money
from villages and individuals. 'holu ous
long enough wrote a gentleman rom Tue
South, 'and Boston will become the granary
of America
Gas the cool season approached, the agrE
cultural towns became more liberal: LeOs-
non drove in 1910 fat sheep Norwich Z'li
Grotor 100; Brooklyn l25; East hsddon'
a drove of sheep and cattle. The Mary
land Counties we're extremely LIBERAL each
sent its 1000 or 1000 bushels OF corn.
From cold and remote Quebec came a
small quantity of wheat from Montreal
hundred pounds sterling. What droves OF
sheep kept streaming into Boston when the
Temperature favored drivingi From every
little mountain town IN New Hampshire
and Vermont came sheep, fifty, sixty-nve.
one hundred. in a flock, Hartford seat on,
after harvest, 1873 bushels of rye, and III
bushels of corn, its small but free gratulty.
Berwick, with apologies for the smailness OF
its gift. sent SIX oxen and twenty-six sheep.
MANY towns and some Provinces, which out
of the summers scarcity had contributed
literally, contributed q second time from
the autumn's fat abundance. Groton did So
and Marbehead, n. j., and Baltimore.
"Indiyidual donations swelled the tide OF
benefaction. Samuel Moody treated HIM
self to gift of five guineas. Philadelphia
raised $4,000, and forwarded it, part
in provisions, part in iron, part in money.
Providence voted ELS. Newport
contributed $1,000. New York sent New
Years gift of sl062, with notice OF
more TO come. Clubs, Fire Companies. and
other organizations, forwarded sums OF
money during the winter. Charleston, ).
c., alleviated the winters cold with
378 tierces of rice. The Church in Salem,
just after their Meeting House was burnt,
and a powerful member had drawn off q
number of their body, contrived to send
twenty-four pounds, sixteen shillings and
eight pence wishing it had been ten times
more Little Rutland could only spare four
quarters of beef, weight 593 pounds. Spring
field gave twenty-five pigs, worth three
full money. Wells, in Maine, contributed
twenty-five cords of wood; Falmouth, fifty.
seven cords. Cape Elizabeth, forty eight
cords; Portsmouth, in New Hampshire
voted f200 From Delaware came
5000 In the spring arrived another fl ,OOC
from New York. Farmers who had
nothing else to give carted frewood, some
twelve miles, some sixteen. Dominica gave
three bags of cocoa. Even from London
from the Constitutional Society there
came a hundred pounds. From another So
ciety, called The Supporters of Civil Rights,
came $500; and four smaller sums
were received from individuals in England
fifteen pounds, twenty pounds, ten
pounds, four guineas. Augustine Washing
ton was asked whether he could sell guam
tity of hoes and axes which Boston mechan-
les, thrown out Of employment by the Port
Bill, had turned TO and made. The Com
mistee of Relief set large numbers of the
mechanics at work making bricks, nails,
fabrics, implements, and invited contribu-
tons of materials. And so the work went
on, even after the siege of the town was be-
gun by the Continental troops, Georgia
sending sixty-three casks OF rice as late as
June, l776"
These efforts prepared Jefferson for the
Congress of the Declaration of Independ-
ence. That work done, the war ended
peace secured; Hamilton great leader
under Washington, and Burr a Senator in
Congress. Jefferson was living in New
York as Washington's Secretary of State
In this part Of his experience he was very
conspicuous in society. He had spent five
previous years in Pans, as American Minis
ter, and was qualified, therefore, to contrast
the fashions of the old French and the young
American metropolis. He returned greatly
enlightened and improved by French soci-
ETY., and more intensely Democratic than
ever. This was what he wrote as his plat
form, while he was on his way to take his
place in General Washington's Cabinet in
New York, and before his famous interview
with the venerable DIR. Benjamin Franklin
in Philadelphia, who was then on his death
bed, but his mind clear to the end. This
was in March, and Franklin died in the fol-
lowing April of that 1880, in his eighty
fifth year. Benjamin Franklin was Jeffer
sons confdant to the last, and his posterity
are Democrats to this day. And what JEFF
ferson said at Alexandris, Va, here below,
is still. he creed of the whole Democratic
party:
Convinced that the Republican is the
only form of government which is not eter-
nally at open or secret war with the rights
of mankind, my prayers and efforts shall be
cordially contributed to the support of WI at
we have happily established. 1t is indeed
an animating thought that while we
are securing the rights of ourselves and our
posterity, we are pointing out the way to
nations who wish, like us, to
emerge from their tyranny also. Heaven
help their struggles and lead them. as it had
led US, triunphantly through them"
When he reached New York, Jefferson
found Hamilton Secretary of the Treasury,
and the leader of aristocrstic society. Ac-
customed as Jefferson had been to the foliies
Of the nobility, and the profigacy of the
Kings of Europe, he was startled at the SYM
bols of royalty and the conversation of the
people around him. He was much courted,
but he found himself so environed with
work. and so beset by new questions that
awaited his action and inquiry, that he could
only glance with surprise at the exhibition
Of frivolous foreign habits, and listen to their
hollow Tory platitudes. And as 1 dwell
now on what he denounced and discarded in
1890 in New York, 1 easily trace the imita-
ton of even stronger follies and habits
taken from the same originals, at the present
time, 1881.
Jefferson says Of his experience in New
York at this time:
81 can not describe the shame and morti-
hcation with which the conversations filed
me. Politics was the chief topic, and the
preference of kingly over Republican
government was evidently the favorite SEN
timent. An apostate could not be, nor
yet q hypocrite; and found myself, for the
most part, the only advocate on the Repub-
lican side of the question, unless among the
guests there CHANGED TO be some member of
that party from the Legislative Houses"
He found the press as we'll as society i'm
pregnated with the same aristocratic spirit.