The National tribune., 1900-10-04

Office the Embargo Act, one of the most
| unpopular of his Administration, was re-
pealed. The second Inaugural of Presi-
dent jefferson must have been devoid of
any special incident; the journals of Con-
gress contain no record of the proceed
| ings.
| On March 2, 1905, Vice-President Burr
took leave of the Senate in a long ad-
dress and one which drew tears to the
eyes of many of his listeners. The SEN
ate chose President pro tempore in
| Hon. Joseph Anderson. March George
| Clinton was administered the oath of Of
| flee by Chef-Justice Marshall, after the
President had been installed and the
wheels of Government were again in run
ming order.
Mr.. Jefferson had spent so much time
| with Mr. and Mrs. Adams during their
| term in the Executive Mansion, both in
Philadelphia and the White House. that
he had little to learn in point of etiquet
| or domestic administration when called
| to take Mr.. Adams's place in the White
House. He had made political hobby,
or his friends had for him, of aversion
for the Republican court" and the cere-
monies attending matters of State and So
| cial intercourse. As soon as Mr.. Jeffer-
son took possession of the White House
he announced that "Levees are done away
with" He opened the house freely to
everyone. His two daughters. Mrs. Ran
dolph and Mrs. Eppes, alternated in the
honors of presiding. Each had large
family, and it was with much difficulty
| that they could attend upon the duties
of the White House.
During one of the visits of Mrs. Ran
dolph her son was born, James Madison
Randolph, the first child born in the
White House. She was woman of rare
accomplishments. Mr.. Madison was Mr.
Jefterson's Secretary of State. Mr.. JEFF
ferson found a ready helper in all mat
ters of etiQuet and entertainment in Mrs
Madison. 1t was rather of a paradoxical
situation for Mr.. jefferson to be placed
IN. He was supposed to slight questions
of ceremony, and yet he could not ignore
official etiquet, and we actually find him
the author of a canon of etiquet, which is
handed down to this day. There were
many changes also in the furnishing of
the White House. Mr.. Jefferson's long
years in France not only impregnatcd him
with a French bias for affairs political
but his life in Paris in the profligate days
of Napoleon familiariZed him with all the
elegancieS of the French court. and he
gradually became educated to love of
the aesthetic taste that governed Partisan
society, and before he left Washington
his surroundings were much more preten-
tious than when he entered the White
House.
During Mr.. Jefferson's second term the
affairs of state did not run as smoothly as
at the first Partisan feeling ran very
high. The relations between Mr.. Adams
and Mr.. Jefferson had become very much
strained, both politically and personally.
Aaron Burr had killed the great Hamilton
in duel, and indignation was universal
warm friendship had existed between
Mrs. Adams and Mr.. jefferson until what
she regarded as unfriendly conduct on the
part of Mr.. Jefferson toward her husband
during the latter part of his Administra-
tion had operated in closing all communi-
cation between them; and yet, without
doubt, there were few people connected
with the early life of the Nation that had
so much to draw them into close fellow
ship-a relationship which never should
have been ruptured.
The following letter. written by Mrs
Adams on the news of the death of Marie
Jefferson (Mrs. Eppes), will tell its own
story:
Quincy, May Goth, 1904.
Had you been not other than the pri-
yate inhabitant Of Monticello | should ere
this time have addressed you in that sym
pathy which a recent event has awakened
in my bosom; but reasons of various
kinds withheld my pen until the powerful
feeling of my heart burst through the re-
Straint, and called upon me to shed the
tear of sorrow over the departed remains
Of your beloved and deserving daughter,
an event which / sincerely mourn.
The attachment which | formed for
her when you committed her to my care
upon her arrival in a foreign land under
circumstances peculiarly interesting, has
remained with me to this day; and the
account of her death which | read in
late paper recalled to NY recollection the
tender scene of her separation from me,
when, with the strongest sensbility, she
clung round my neck and wet my bosom
with her tears, saying: oh, now l have
learned to love you, why will they take
me away from you?'
1T has been some time since I con-
ceived that any event would in this life
call forth feelings of natural sympathy.
But l know how closely entwined around
parents heart are those cords which
bind the paternal to the filial bosom, and
when snapped asunder how agonizing the
pangs. l have tasted of the bitter cup,
and bow with reverence and submission
before the great Dispenser of it, without
whose permission and oYerruling proyi-
dence not sparrow falls to the ground.
That you may derive comfort and con-
ISOLATION in this day of your sorrow and
aftiiction from that only source calculated
to heal the wounded heart, and firm be-
lief in the being, perfection and attrib-
utes Of God, is the sincere wish of her
who once tool; pleasure in subscribing her.
self
"Your friend,
ABIGAIL ADAMS"
The letter awakened the old friendship
in Mr.. Jefferson's heart, which had too
long been suppressed, and tender was his
letter in response. He 7sured her that
among the eager inquiries made by Marie
after a separation were whether l had
heard lately from YOU" and "how you
did,"
1t might have been this letter that made
the beginning of the restoration of the
pleasant relations between Mr.. Adams
and Mr.. Jefferson, which never ought to
have been interrupted by partisan up
heavals. There came a time in the years
following when a stronger tie was draw
ing them together. They were becoming
| among the last Of the survivors of the
signers of the Declaration of Independ-
ence. Jefferson touchingly alludes to this
in one of his letters to Adams. There is