Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-04-14

human science and endeavOr. He set be-
Tore them the highest examples OF man
hood the finest ideals OF government, the
purest models OF excellence in all things.
Constitutions, laws. seeds. plants. BOOKS,
machinery, arts, houses, domestic animals,
whatever would help them, he wanted and
would have the best for them. And he
stirred their hearts with the ncblest aspi-
rationS that ever quickened the human
breast for he was a dreamer OF great
dreams, and nearly every dream came
true.
JEFFERSON's ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
He was the most accomplished man
that America ever produced. "The ADM,
rabie Crichton" OF the new world, ana
defeating to mankind hls gifts from hea-
ven, he labored for them harder than the
horniest hand for its daily bread. Books
he devoured as q hungry man might de-
your the dainties OF banquet, but ne
chewed and digested them. He could nave
talked history with Thucydides, Tacltus,
discussed Greek and Latin roofs Win
Puffendorf or "Old Gass." Scion, JuSti-
nlan. Coke, Blackstone, Montesquieu,
Vattel, or Marshall would have found MN
a ripe companion on any point Oh mum
cipal, constitutional. common statute, or
international law. Talk TO him OF geogra.
ply. and you would think that he had
wandered with Voiney over the runs OF
tain Cook to the Cannibal Islands.
Socrates or Plato would have hung upon
hts discourse about the destiny or man
and the immortality OF the soui hau ne
sat with them on the porticoes OF Athens:
Did YOU bring up natural sclence, you
would find that Cuvier, Bunon, an
AgaSsiz, or q Darwin might learn from
him the secrets OF nature about plants,
animals trees fossils. or flowers. His
exquisite genius drank In with Joy u,e
beauties OF poesy. Homer ana SNAKES
peare. Moliere. Tasso, Dante. DRYDEN,
Pope Milton, whether the dulcet melody
or the lofty strain, he quaffed them all
as the gods might quar- nectar "on their
hills reciined." And had you called ~
Monticello Just after the Revolution you
might have found the author OF the De
claration engaged with that accomplished
French visitor, Major-General, the Mar
ous de Chastelleux, in reciting 10 each
other the poems of Ossion over the hospi-
table punch bowl.
For a hospitaDle man was Jefferson. As
many as fifty guests were sometimes
around his board. and they ate and drank
him out OF house and home. -, ,
But Jefferson's mind was practical ana
of that kind that brings things TO ac-
count He loved the mathematics. and no
superstition or beatihc vision could ever
lead him from the bedrock notion that
two and two make four world without
end He was as precise In detail as he
was broad and accurate IN generahzatlon'
His mind was like the elephant trunk,
that can pick up Il pin or knock down
lion When he was President he went
regularly TO market. and he kept In ms
journal year after year the date on which
the early vegetables and fruits appeared
and the precise cost Of tomatoes straw
berries. peas. and cabbage. The stately
columns and swelling dome OF the UNI
versity, and right here the symmetrlca
beauty Of this old Monticello mansion De.
speak the exalted mind that Iepr9 ~ ~
i'm them the classic models. But 40 not
forget he made the estimates OF prick anu
mortar and timber and nails, ana lraih-
ed the hands that brought tne seenlly
niles from the crude material. lie round
ed the Patent Office of the United STATES
and do YOU know he was himself an IN
ventor? How busy was his restless brain
When in France as Minister ne wrote ms
tho revolution there fermented around
him he invented a hillside plow, for
which he received a medal from the
Royal Agricultural Society or tne Selne'
chair such as is found to-day in every
comfortable home and Office. Napoleon
crossed the Alps 10 make spoil OF itaS,
Jefferson, too. crossed the Alps, but II TOT
a less dazzling, nevertheless for a more
useful and enduring conquest. lie went
down into the rice-growing district 10 get
improved seeds for America. FINDING that
The laws there prohibited their eXpOrta-
lion ne filled his pockets with them, sent
them TO Charleston. gave them out in ten
or twelve grain quantities TO farmers
and the southern rice plantations to-day
producing the best rice IN the World, ap-
Maud the movement by which JEFFERSON
ppi,tganted the custom-house of Italy and
snread broadcast over the face of Mother
Farth the annual eulogy of his venlal pee
cadillo. and his useful crcumspecuon'
HIS INFLUENCE.
In every living issue OF the day Is seen
the prophetic forecast and practical WIS,
dom of Jefferson. We have Just emerged
from the great revolution that deiuged
the land in blood and tears, and from ne ne
war whose battle thunders shook the
nrecincts of both Mount Vernon and Mon
ticello. Slavery was its cause, that bnght,
ing bequest of British ayatice, tol ltei
upon Virginia unwillingly; prot6eiS t,er
legacy from British kings The ilrst
mea sure he offered In the Virginia Legs
lature. when but % years ol1, was lQr
its gradual emancipation. Nothlng -
more certainly written in the book OF
fate" he said, than these people are 70
be free: nor is IL less certain that the Two
races equally free cannot live under, tnS
the truth Of the first declaration; let the
patrOns of force bills remember the Sc
cond Slavery Is dead. Its ashes re-
main. Woe be unto him that bestirs those
The world is wide. The Anglo-Saxon
Sc everywhere upon II. EVERYWHERE ne
IS he rules, by the God-begotten rlght OF
intellectual and moral ascendancy 10 RUE.
or N ne die striking that he may rule,
the morning star of destiny SHINES over
his grave. and the sceptre OF power
springs fOrtn IRON IL. 9,
Discussing tariff, or money; or banks,
or legislation, you will find him always
for America and its independence, ana
against monopoly; against the IDEA that
we may tax men into prosperity' anu
warning them against deluding paper
issues. strong for the basic metals, gVlu
and silver. the money OF the people LOT
ages, ana destined so 10 De ior aBeS yoe
10 come.
Is the theme educational? No man ever
more perfectly impressed the necessity
OF higher education as a sustenance or
the common schools nor the necessity
OF the common schools ror the masses OF
the people.
There Is no phase OF the question that he
had not anticipated.
on the Monroe doctrine he was like
John the Baptist crying in the wilder
respecting the island OF San Domingo;
and indeed, when Monroe proclaimed
it-Adams had suggested, and JEFFERSON
advised II In, that memorable letter IN
which he said: I'VE will oppose with az
our means the forcible nterposition OF
any other Power. as auxiliary. stipen-
diary, or under any other form or pre-
iext and most especially their transfer
conquest, cession, or acquisition In any
The The gun that Numbered yesterday from
Washington was loaded and trained by
IefYerson The Know-Nothings came
along In 1856. with secret conclaves and
proselyting, and they met their Waterloo
In Virginia Henry A. Wise led the hosts
that conquered them, and his neck was
clothed with thunder; but the lghtn!ngs
OF his speech were guided by that master,
the spirit OF jefferson
The American Protective Associations
are abroad In the land now. Religious
gsnaficism threatens for and against
them, but before they came Jefferson mad
provided solution or the problem. sna
the tenets OF our Constitution furnish