Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-09-07

II Saw ELECTROMAGNETIC N" S
upon the campus Of the University Of
Missouri at Columbia It is a simple
cbelisk Of granite, eight feet in height
and without the slightest attempt at
adornment. The monument will form
the center of the Missouri University
exhibit at st. Louis in 1909. Two
miles from the spot where Thomas
Jefferson was born, near the junction
Ct the Rivanna and James rivers, in
Albemarle county, Virginia, on the
lands which he inherited from his
father, rises Monticello or the Little
Mount. sos feet high, the home for
more than sixty years, and the final
resting place OF the patriot and states
a \ During the long summer days
ofthe5 year 1855, on a rustic bench lee
its summit, beneath the branches Of a
majestic oak, could be seen two young
men, jim the early. bloom of manhood,
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students of the law and devoted
friends. The noe was Thomas Jefer-
son and the other Dabney Carr.
Senator Vest thus described the scene:
Lifting their eyes from the pages Of
Coke Or sLittleton, they rested on a
landscape Of enchanting beauty: on the
right the low-lands OF Virginia.
stretched away in an unbroken" plain
to the ocean, with the Rivanna and
James like threads of silver, whilst on
their left the Blue Ridge, robed in
azure hue, looked down upon the BIZ
lowys#hills that nestled at their feet.
It was here that the two friends made
co1emn compact, mutually pledging
their sacred honor, that beneath this
oak should be their burial place and
tliir last rest Dabney Carr died
first. He married Martha, sister Of
Thomas Jefferson, and eight years
later, at the very commencement OF
what promised to be a NOSE brilliant
career, died leaving to the care Of his
distinguished brother-in-law, a widow
and six children. 'sF1fftylthree years
later, after ~forty-four years in public
service, Thomas Jefferson died and was
hurled beside his boyhood frienll un-
der the great oak. Among his ,aDers
after death was found a rough sketch
il. ink of an oblisk, together with this
inscription for a marble tablet.
Here was Buried
1ss Thomas Jefferson
5s& Author OF the
Declaration Of american Independence,
s& The Statute os Virginia for
Religious Freedom SKI
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Father OF the University OF Virginia.
The marble tablet which formerly
was attached to and formed part e the
granite oblisk, was badly broken when
the university buildings Wersa destroy
ed by fire on January9 1882 It now,
for safe keeping, rests under glass IN.
the fre-proof vault OF the prostor Of
the university.
The epitaph is significant one.
Thomas Jefferson had been a member
of the Virginia house Of Burgesses and
OF the continental congress; governor
Of Virginia, miniter to France, neggo-
tiator OF the Louisiana purchase, sec
rotary Of state, vice president of the
United States, but d Of these hon
ors did he wish inscribed upon his
tombstone, The stern old democrat
preferred instead as passports to im-
mortality, remembrance Of his adyo
cacy d the rights Of . religious
liberty and universal education. s
Thomas Jefferson died bankrupt.
beautiful Monticello passed into the
hands b strangers and his simple
g~Tavestone was neglected and mutil
ated. o. April Is, 1885,, IL the birth
month of jefferson, congress appro-
priated 10000 tfor the erection of q
suitable monument and to make other
suitable improvements over the grave
of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello.
Virginia. When this monument was
erected, the original chart was pre-
scented BY the Misses Randolph the
restduary Iegatees o Thomas ener
son, though pr S. Laws, president
and IrsA. Flies, professor % Greek
fl the University of Missouri, % that
institution. It was shipped from
Monticello d Dr Fleet on the 4th of
tut, 1855, ana unveiled oIa the 4th Of
June. 1881, mon the Missouri univer-
sity campus with ceremonies iii which