Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-12
AFTER THE PRESIDENCY.
What Our Rulers Did When They Gave Up Their High Office.
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Gave Up Their High OElce.
 From the New York Graphic.l
 One month from now President Cleveland will be a simple and untitled citizen. He will leave the great office where for four years he has directed the destinies of the country and take his place among the every day men of New York. He will do what no other ex-President has done before him from the day when the office was given up by George Washington to that sunny March morning when Chester A. Arthur bade good bye to the White House and Grover Cleye- land became it's master. He will go to work
 On March 4th, 1797, George Washington retired after having served eight years. He spent the remainder of his days on his Vir- ginia plantation raising tobacco and corn.
 John Adams ended his term in the White House in 1901 and went back to his luxuri- ous home in Massachusetts, where he spent the remainder of his life in ease and quiet retirement He did not need to burden him. self with cares. He was rich and well to do and loved an enjoyable life.
 When Thomas Jefferson rode away from Washington in March, 1909, he had no great surplus of this worlds goods. Even the homestead he owned was not entirely his. The after life work he did was in the cause
 
 nor the fame which later years have found 1 due to his well considered labors. 1 James Madison retired from public life in | 1917, and for nearly twenty years in his Vir- l ginia home lived among his books and his | memories without the need of annoying him. l self by thoughts of his income. He was lib- erally supplied with this worlds goods and l consequently free from care.
 | James Monroe, after eight years at the l head of the government, retired in 1895 and l went back to Virginia. He too was able to surround himself with the comforts of life, and did not need to struggle for an addition to his income. He served as justice of the peace in his county precinct after he had laid | aside the presidency, and was 8 delegate to | convention to revise the constitution of his State.
 John Quincy Adams went back to public life after his term was over, and made the | family name even more honorable than be- fore by the great fight he led on the floor of the House of Representatives against slavery and it's growing power. He died in that are- na of his great t1iumphs, and he was the first of the Presidents who re-entered the public service after having been the highest executive officer for four years.
 Andrew Jackson's stormy political career ended on March 4th, 1887, and he went back to his home in Tennessee, where he quietly , ended his long and busy life without ever again mingling in public affairs.
 | MafGlu fhu DuFeu, WuO SUCe6eQeQ Jdck- son, was of too restless and ambitious dis. position to remain in the quiet of his coun- try house after the defeat which sent him into retirement, so he became the candidate of the Free Soil party only to be again beat en. He never engaged in any business save that of politics.
 John Tyler, after his ambition to be elect ed to the office which fate had once given him was shown to be futile, went to his farm in Virginia and led the life of a country gen. tleman. When the rebellion broke out he 1 was elected a member of the Confederate
 Congress, but he never made any figure
 there. He died while serving his second
 term in the house.
 James K. Polk would not have remained
 long out of public life after his term of tn, presidency was finished, but just ss he wa ] making preparations towards movemen that might again make him prominent fl 5 public affairs he went to his grave. 8 Willard Fillmore was an ambitious, luxu | ry-loving and life-epjoying man. He trie, Q to be President again and accepted the nom