New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-04-15
THE JEFFERSoNLlNS Still At IT.


Thomas Jefferson goes light along, regardless
of the calendar and of everything else except
the increasing desire on the part Of eminent
Democrats to write letters concerning the re-
ceased and respond to toasts and sentiments
more or less relevant 90 his memory. 1t is a
very cold day for Nj. JelersOn's remains
when they are not tossed on the horns
of at least half a dozen orators in diff
ferent parts of the country, who, in the
most frcnzicd manner, express their dissat-
sfaction at his Geccase We had the benin
ning of the celebrations Of JcifcrsOn's birth
day more than q week AGO. Mr.. Tildcn sailed
in nObly on the bosom of one of the earliest
with the wink of an earnest statesman iii his
eve, ard a column letter on the general dread
fitness Of things in his hand. We have not
pretended to keep account of the number of
similar celebrations that have since taken place
in various parts of the country: enough that
the old gen.eman's admirers are still keeping il
Up. and their eloquent remarks are filling the
columns of the Democratic press There are
signs that the anniversary will continue to pre-
vail for at least a fortnight longer, or until
every prominent Democrat in the country has
enjoyed the privilege of expressing upon a
convivial and suitable occasion, in a letter or
speech his disappointment and regret that
Mr.. Jefferson died when he did.
Many things of an unkind nature have been
said by poets and others concerning the month
Of April: let this at least be recorded in
its favor Mr.. Jefferson seems to have been
born not only in it, but through it and all
over it. Over the entire month the wings OF
this translated Democratic saint flap with the
exceeding vastness of his own glitterng geneT-
alitics, claiming the month and each day i'll it
as his own. No character in history was ever
endowed with such a birthday. Here seems
20 have been a parturtion OF thirty days
each one of which was 10 furnish an ami
versary. And the month of all Others-ah,
how strangely Providence rings in occasion
ally on our scepticism wonderful re-
gard for the fitness of things THE plu-
vious month! There be thirty days in which
Nature weeps litfully. So, in its cups and In
the thought that jefferson is dead, does the
Democratic party. When we read the re-
marks that have been made and the letters
that have been written during the prevalence
of this present anniversary up TO this point,
beginning with the settled grief which Mr.
Tildcn threw over the New Haven Jelcrsonians
from a garden engine, and ending with the
mid and softencd melancholy which Mr.
Samuel Cox sprinkled from his delicate
little waterng-pot over the JcfieBonians
OF Newark Oh Thursday night, we are
more than ever struck with the fitness
of things which so Wove this anniversary into
and all through the moist month of April that
Nature and the Democratic party could weep
together for thirty wet nights in its cclebIa-
ton. II was a great thing for Mr. jefferson
to have been born at all greater for him to
have been born 139 years ago, at a time WHOM
he was not compelled 20 choose between John
Kelly and Samuel J. Tilden stl! greater that
his continent birthday was spread over pc
Rod sufficiently long to furnish time for all
who revere his memory 10 tel! III glowing pc
riods how disguised they are Oh account Of lis
death.
"The books and by this scholarly idiom
we mean of course Mr.. James Parton's biog-
raphy of the deceased-say that Mr. Jefferson
was born on the 18Th of April. Ii was on
that date that the Jeflersonian Club of Newark