The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-09-07

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Mills: He Is really most singular ant
interesting man. He dined with us yes
terday. He was dressed in a rough
coarse, short hunting coat with small
clothes and boots, and over his boots
pair of coarse cotton leggings, tied with
strings around his legs. He engrossed
almost the whole conversation. and was
exceedingly amusing as we'll as eloauen,
and Instructive"
With the sole exception of Randolph
Jefferson had no serious troubles with his
lieutenants. His cabinet was singularly
harmonious. James Madison. secretary of
| state; Albert Gallatin. of the treasury;
Henry Dearborn. Of war; Gideon Granger,
postmaster general; Levi Lincoln. attor-
ney general; Robert Smith. secretary OF
the navy, We're all excellent officers. and
/ loyal to the chief.
Congress was probably never handled
so adroitly and successfully as it was by
| Mr.. Jefferson
CHA PIER XLVII
Aaron Burr quietly took his place as
vice president, and made a model off,
Ger. Senators who had sat under John
Adams must have felt refreshed by the
change.
When General Washington became pres
dent, and Mr.. Adams vice president, oil
was confusion. and modes Of doing things
had to be adopted before things them
selves could be done. Here was infinite
field for discussion and for display
Of knowledge of the ways of other peo-
pies.
Whether the president and vice presi-
dent were like Roman consuls. or Spar
tan kings or Carthaginian srffetes Mr..
Adams did not know for certain: but he
was anxious to find out. and more than
willing to talk about 1t from the chair.
Il am possessed Of two separate DOW
ers; the one in esse. the other in posse
am Vice president. In this l am moth
ing, but may be everything. But l am
also president of the senate; what shall
90 when President Washington comes9
can not be president then. No, gentle
men, | can not. I wish you gentlemen TO
think what | shall be"
WITH a confusion remotely resembling
Hamlet S, Mr.. Adams made earnest efforts
10 understand himself. locate himself and
adjust himself In nearly every dabata
ne took an active part. Senators who, in
the progress Of their remarks went astrav
on matters of fact or argument. he set
right from the chair Frequently he
would address the senate for neaMw an
hour at a time; and that day which pass
ed without several speeches of VARYING
ieNgth from Vice Pre- sident Adams werc !
exceptional. A great sticker for forms |
ne was constantly telling the senate how
certain things were done in the house of |
olus OF England: and on the first address |
- washington TO congress his clerk in |
iorsed, with Adams approval. the ROYAL !
phrase "'"i }
Ills gracious speech
men 1t gradually dawned upon Mr..
ADAMS that he and Washington were not
o be treated as Roman consuls. Spartan
Ilnss or Carthaginian suffetes his dis,
1'e sic" 1pace-so much that when
senator Maclay and others stoutIy con-,
ended Tor the simple manners of democ-
acy' ADAMS declared that had he known
ne American people would come to such
pass he MOULD never have taken I'M
rms against Great Britain.
Fussy, consequential. pompops yarrn
Jus. without dignity Of person or of
aanner. his face often expanded IN q
acant laugh John Adams wac NOT rho
IAN to be imposing or impressive as
residing officer over the senate of the
'nited States ,
erent standard when he came to preside $
yer the senate: and nothing more was {
card OF the cGnsuls, the kings. or tn.
lffetes Romans. Grecians and Cartha-
nians We're suffered to rest IN peace. [
he vice president no longer acted as t
'hoolmaster for senators. Under Jeffer- |
ms firm, gentle control, the senate be- s
IN to assume the character BETTING the |
ost responsible body in the new world g
Aaron Burr followed the example of fl
,fferson: and his conduct as president Of v
lie senate compelled instituted praise h
ON friends and foes alike. He was
ouel OF decorum, was rigidly impartial, g
I'd was conspicuously capable When s
S term expired. he delivered a brief 6
reWell address, which created a pro- E
und impression. and which even in the h
'perfect report handed down to US, Ct
ises the speaker in the estimation of all ~
no will read it. II
The received opinion about Burr is that c.
was polE@el adyenturer. without g
f. or thought ior the law the country II
for the human race. In that con- II
! ION, one paragraph In his short speech 81
| ry striking m
| OFFS mouse is sanctuary; a citadel 40
! IL and OF liberty; and it Is here ~
! here Hcie Al tHlS exalted refuge -,
madanyWhere. that resistance will be ",
and ! tbs storms of political frenzy -,
| constilent arts Of corruption If the ~
sacrilen be destined to perish by the al
the us,f hands Of the demagogue or &c
agonies which God avert its expiring
Whatebe Witnessed on this floor" w,
| the laneese it may be- this is not III
mere sha nor the conception of a WI
Henry had trifler Just as Patrick be
cipIes in seen the centralizing prin- In
| Rllrr realizeew constitution. Aaron
the United & predominant power of ar
the prediction senate. In each case, OF
man, for the IS that of the states re
| parent were not then so ap- to
STORMS of
one danger; "tial frenzy was the fe,
ton" was the otnt arts of corrnp- ilt
looks in upon thAnybody who now 81,
and mentally exrsted states senate er,
resentatves and balerefrom the rep tn,
ent arts of corruparies of "the ST. I,
siderable doubt as tt will be In con- Isf
! a quorum to do busiiher he has left ,d
Dwarfing the house. ro
president, the senate Ehadowing the =
| lie: and "the silent ans the repub- -
| govern the sonata corruption"
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reer of Alexander Hamilton the ca az
was not foreseen by hinied. This s u'
| realized by him until the n was it ,. 80.
| agement which the Vrginsul man o"'
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| fruit in his second, and altrne its lbs
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