The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-12-19

growing b opposition, with tho, ough
learning. lofty morality and vehement
energy. he hammered independence
out like horseshoe ON the anvil and
nailed it to the war-horse."
A peculiar view of the three great
lights of our incipient politics was this :
The three men represented three
ideas. all necessary to the republic.
Adams represented independence,
Jefferson liberty, and Hamilton empire.
The elder two had brought the nsti"n
forth. while Hamilton dressed it in q
constitution and gave it. financial
milk-bottle. Twenty two years young.
er than Mr.. Adams. he bad been ed
ucated on the military staff, and max;
ing no allowance for the genius of J
Western people. this Englishman born,
FASTENED to mold America to instant
maturity. for he was a statesman by
nature. and led her into q military Ca
reer against SPANS colonies, where in
the decaying powers Of Washington
Hamilton would be.
THE NEW WORLDS NAPOLEON.
Jefferson, of a feminine and suspi-
cious nature, like a Welshman. and
with physical courage altogether below
his mental originality, had lost bic
judgment in his sympathy with peace
and come to consider Washington him.
self conspirer against his own peO-
pie. President Adams, crotchetty but
all masculine, believed in neither
Hamiiton's army nor Jefferson's mob.
He wanted to keep his country cut of
the vortex of European war and main
tain the independence We had secured.
10 this end he signed the alien and
sedition bills passed by Hamilton's
friends in Congress, but he would not
make the English alliance Hamilton
demanded nor attack France and her
ally, Spain. He incurred Hamilton's
resentment, end the consequence of
Hamilton's legislation fell upon Adams
never great popularity, the Federal
party fell in half, and Aaron
Burr organized the OPPOSITION into
victory. and on bis bullet Hamilton
wrecked a life whose artificial homer
was even stronger than moral tone.
From the chaos President Adams drew
a Chief Justice who had been the
main supporter of bis administration
in Congress and diplomacy. and who
saved the judicial bench OF this Gov
eminent from insanity for thirty five
years, or till Mr.. Jeferson's organize
ton had ceased to rule-the intuitiye,
the profound, the perfect msdel Of .
Judge. John Marshall, Of Virginia.
JEFFERsoN's HOUSE OF MONTICELLO,
$50 feet in the air, was then described
by the lecturer, aud the comment
made:
SIN this age Of intercourse, when an
error of taste is quickly perceived, the
visitor would cali Monticello the home
of an amateur-of q man who knew .
little about everything, who was his
own architect, gardener, clockmaker
and weather prophet, and spent bis
time and money in more or less juven-
lie experiment. This impression will
grow when it is known that Monticel-
10 was near thirty years building. that
the wooden sashes in it had to be
made in I.oudsn, that it brought the
imposition of idlers and spopgers upon
the President, till ruin and morti6ca
ton encompassed his advanced age,
and that to-day nobody will take it as
a gift and live there. In short. . trav-
eler would now say it was the home of
. visionary, with aristocratic self.es.
TEEN, however domestic was his socie-
ty. and of q man whose financial thrift
bore no consistency with his consisten.
cy with his artistic and ideal prepare
tons; who fell violently in love with
novelties, could not conclude what he
began. and yet had all the confidence
of an innovator. His favorite poem
was Ossian. the forger, Of . second
rate poet, but it imposed upon Jefer.
son to the end of his life. lie played
the violin, aud on this laid claim to
music, and when one wing of Mont.
cello was burnt by fire, and q slave
ran in to tell it. Jefferson cried, 'Were
none of my books savedY No, Mas
sa, none OBJ de books; but & oily! we've
saved de fiddle, In the
midst Of that war. while Washington
was lying at Valley Forge. and Adams
and Congress were fugitives among
the Blue Mountains, Mr.. Jefferson
wrote to foreign correspondent: Il
suppose that ysu might find in Paris
persons who could perform On the
French horn, clarinet Or hsutbsy and
basoon, 50 that We might have here . !