The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-04-08
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homage claimed by rank. instead of that
| friendly consideration due from man to man.
Mr.. Jefferson had spent so much time with
Mr.. and Mrs. Adams during their incumbency
of the Executive Mansion, both in Philadel-
| phia and after their occupany of the White
House, that he had little to learn in the line
of etiquet or domestic administration when
called to succeed Mr.. Adams as President
His political hobby of equality, however, led
him to express great aversion for the !" Repub-
hcan Court" and the pomp attending the
copy of royalty in matters of State and social
intercourse. How much credit or discredit is
due France for the molding of jefferson char
acter will always remain an angina That his
long residence there was historically import
ant all will agree That he brought. back
with him policy which at once entered into
the formation of the character of this new
Nation. is well known How much this in
fluence has affected the body polite of this
Nation will never be known; or what the diff
ference would have been if, in the distribu-
ton of offices in 1874, Congress had sent
Jefferson to London instead of Paris, and APP
pointed John Adams to Paris instead of
London.
As soon as Mr.. Jefferson was in the White
House, he announced that "Levees are done
away" Everybody was welcome, and his
desire was that everyone should feel at home.
The Presidents House was the seat of hospi-
tally.
Mrs. Randolph and Mrs. Eppes altenated
in the honors of presiding; but with their OMn
large families, and the difficulties attending a
journey from Monticello to Washington, in
those days of overland travelling by ones
own conveyance or the slow coaches. or on
hor. al,,..1 A. n~A
them to be in constant attendance. Mrs.
Randolph was unable to make more than two
visits during her fathers terms. On one of
these her son was born, James Madison Ran
doiph being the first child born in the White
House. She was lovely woman with rare
accomplishments
Fortunately for Mr.. Jefferson, Mr.. Madison
was his Secretary of State and Mrs. Madison
and her sister, Miss Payne afterwards Mrs.
Cuts were ever ready to assist Mr.. Jefferson
in matters of etiquet and entertainment.
The many little notes addressed to Mrs.
Madison by Mr. Jefferson, show how much
he depended upon her q to take care of female
friends expected" and other social matters.
As much as Mr. Jefferson desired to ignore
the question of ceremony, he was obliged to
pay attention to official affairs of this kind,
and therefore we have to-day canon of eti-
quet formulated by him.
1t was a very democratic arrangement of
matters of State, socially, and one the family
OF the President to-day could hardly fulfill
One feature was the time on which calls at
the Executive Mansion should be returned.
Many additions in the way of furnishing
were made to the White House during Jeffer-
sons Administrations because, while pro-
fessionally very unpretentious, Mr. Jefferson
had dallied long enough at the French Court
in the proaigate age of Napoleon. to acquire
taste for the elegancies of Partisan society,
and he therefore gradually drifted into much
more pretentious surroundings toward the
close of his life in the White House than he
promised in the beginning.
The affairs of state did not always sit lightly.
Partisan feeling ran high. Mr.. Adams and
Mr.. Jefferson had become estranged person.
ally and politically but it is believed that
the men foremost in the country's service
had the country's good at heart, however
much they might differ as to the means to be
employed to bring if about
The code duelio had taken away the great
Hamilton. Aaron Burr, after killing this
matches statesman. was tried for treason
Death entered the family circle and bore
away the Presidents daughter Mary, who,
though at the White House but little, was
much to her father. 1t was on the occasion