The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-10-16

neVer IorgaVe b mother country.
After the dinner was over it is re.
ported that Sir George actually took
Jefferson aside and said to him: 81
beg pardon, Mr.. jefferson, but you
know l couldn't go away without tell
ing you that you made a terrible ass of
yourself at the table just now, and
rather than see you repeat it, you
know, l thought l would call your at
tontion to it.
You know, I understo' 1, of cawse,
that you have had f. K acr eatages here
among the savuges. and 80 you know
very little Of the use OF W." Ia, and so
you made a very serious trraw just
now. You remember that I referred
to the fact that I was troubled with in
somnia, dear boy, and you told me that
once you had it in college. And, me
Gawd, Mr.. jefferson, you said you
went to bed and slept it Off
Don't you know that the very
trouble with insCmnIais thatyOu cawn't
sleep it hofG"
Is that possibie9' said jefferson,
with well assumed horror. "Why, I
thought it was something like collier"
Ever after this Mr.. Jefferson was
found upon all questions to be bitterly
opposed to a monarchy in any form
whatever.
Mr.. Jefferson was q poor orator,
though many people at this date put
him along with Patrick Henry, forget
ting that Jefferson was a student and
not an orator. His greatest work vas
with the pen, and as an authority upon
all questions Of law and craftsmanship.
Though Patrick Henry was a most elo-
quent man, he left nothing to be com
pared with the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. There is q magnetism pecu-
liar to the orator which is marvellous
for the moment, but it perishes with
the voice that awakened it.
On the Fourth of July, ITS, the draft
of the immortal Declaration of indie
pendence was completed, and in that
document will forever live the IN
quenchable spirit of the red-headed
student, while the spontaneous but un-
considered outbursts of Henry have
dwindled down to a line and died in
the remote corners of the echoless past.
Jefferson instituted the abolition of
entail and primogeniture and did a
| good deal in the matter Of reconstruc-
ton after the government fell into the
hands Of the rebels" He also en-
couraged religious freedom, and to him
is due the religious liberality which
New England SO sadly lacked at that
time. jefferson had rather advanced"
ideas regarding religion, and it is said
that he died without the hope of a lit
eral hell for those who disagreed with
him.
Jefferson is also responsible largely
more than any other man, in fact
for our decimal currency, the only
proper method Of arranging money so
that it may be rapidly computed. No
one can fully appreciate this until he
has labored with pounds, shillings,
pence and farthings.
In 1852 his second wife died, leaving
three children, and crazed with grief,
Mr.. Jefferson accepted the position of
Minister to Paris, He was asked if he
would replace Franklin at that place.
NO." said he. II succeed him. No
one could replace him"
He pitied the French, who were then
priest ridden and little more than
slaves, pIundered by the nobility after
the church had taken everything it
could get hold of. He returned to act
as General Washington's Secretary of
State, residing at 81 Maiden Lane, New
York city. He and Alexander Hamil-
ton were bitterly opposed to each other
on most political questions, JEFFERSON
sym~pathHing with the French revolu-
tionistq, while Aleck did not. Jeffer-
son was O plain republican, while Aleck
was mora of an ~aristocrat and ale pie
with a fork till the day of his death.
In 1886 he was elected Vice. President
and in 1901 became President. He sue
ceeded himself and declined a third
term in order to retire to his beautiful
home at Monticello, where he died on
the hfrieth anniversary of the Declare
ton of Independence, a few hoDra be-
fore the death of his contemporary,
John Adams. He is buried at Mont
cello, where recently visited his grave.
One reaches it by diligence over a cor
rugated road. Monticello is visited by
quite o number of people, who pay a
quarter of a dollar each to an old