Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-06-18
4 TRIBUTE T0 JEFFERSON AND
HAMILTON.

A TRIBUTE T8 JEFFERSOE AND
HAMILTON.
Eloquent Address OF Hon. T. F. Bay.
ard At The Commencement
Exercises or The Mis-.
s. souri, University.
At the conclusion of Senator Vests
Grafton on Thomas jefferson at the
University Commencement. on the
4th inst, loud calls were made for
MIR. Bayard who advanced on the
stage and spoke as follows:
"Ladies and Gentlemen, there is
but enc word proper for me now. It
is grateful acknowledgement that /
have been permitted to attend these
exercises here in the center of Mis-
souri, and among the people of Mis-
souri,, and permitted to the progress
of the greatest work in Missouri
the raising of the minds and hearts
of her people. This is education in
its true sense. 1t is the building up
of the strength of our nation, and I,
an humble worker, coming from a
post somewhat of fatigue and ankle
ty, am thankful that my steps have
been allowed to wander here. I come
upon a most interesting occasion for
it is not merely the transplanting of
this mute memorial of Thomas JET
ferson's life and death, but also the
transplanting of the meaning Of his
life, of the lessons of his life, and of
his services land what more proper
than that the tablet inspired by his
life, and of his servces-and what
more proper than that the tablet in
spired by his own pen, with his own
pen, with his own essential modesty
and yet his own true sense of great
ness-that tablet commemorative of
the statesman and patriot who add
ed the Louisiana purchase to the ter
ritories of the United States should
find its final place in the greatest
state carved from that Louisiana pur-
chase. It is peculiarly fitting that
this tablet to the memory of Thomas
Jefferson should find its lasting home
among the people of Missouri.
THOMAS JEFFERSON AND ALEXANDER HAM
As my eloquent and valued friend,
your honored senator, in those tones
Of eloquence which have attracted
senates, and have so bound the peo-
pie of this state to him, was telling
you the story of Jefferson's life, he
mingled with it properly and histor-
ically the name of another not on
Mr.. Jeferson's school of politics, but
still patriot, longing in his own way
for the advancement and safety o1
this country. Though his theories
of government were not those Of Mr.,
Jefferson nor those which, happily.
have become the ruling force of this
country, yet it seems to me there is
no task SO delightful, no task more
honorable, than that of blending the
powers, the names and the principles
of two great men into the common
cause of their country's advancement
So I desire with much humanity and
some hesitation to point out, if
may, the true relations of Thomas
Jefferson to Alexander Hamilton. ]
have perhaps some hereditary right
to speak of this. There is correspon
dence to-day in my possession t.
show that to the influence of NJ
man in the United States was th'
election in 1901 of Thomas Jefferson
to the presidency of the United State
more due, than to the personal coun
sells and influences Of Alexander Ham
ilton. I will tell you how it was.
| THE FAMOUS DEAD LOCK IN CONGRESS.
j The election in 1900, as Senate
Vest has portrayed to you, left tn
vote of the electoral college at a tic
7 Neither Jefferson nor Burr had tina
Z majority in the joint meeting OF tn
two houses Of congress which wa
necessary to be declared in order t
/ proclaim the president.
d Then the machinery of our govern
ment was called in and it became th
duty of the house Of representative
to elect the president. of the Unite
> States. Each state voted as uni
and equally as unit. There wer
fifteen states. In that vote som
were balanced by an equality Of the
representatives. They were oblige
: to select from the two highest cand
dates voted for the president wh
: should be by them elected. Thes
1.-TWO highest candidates were Thoma
: jefferson and Aaron Burr. The on
now the synonym of patriotism, tl
1other of treachery, but not so at ths
e day. Mr.. Burr stood closer in b
Z alliance because less devoted to pril
ciple. He stood closer to the fede
e al than did Mr.. Jefferson, who WI
:. considered it's arch opponent. Bali
o after ballot was taken, but no ele
q ton resulted. Either the votes I
states were silenced by their hayin
= equal numbers on either side, or I'll
u vote was withheld or there was
}. tie. All that time the fate of th
4 country hung almost on a threa'