Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1903-03-19
! The Craftsmanship
! Of Thomas Jefferson.

tress OF the Father OF Waters, anC
in the imperial city of st, Loui
will rise a magic Exposition of
Nations wealth.
The orient will bring its splen
dor and the occident its vigor, bu
neither shall have power to eclipse
in fame a young domain-a youn.
ger dominion whose name, the
Louisiana Purchase. shall be upon
the lips of every one; and when
the myriads of earth shall medi.
tate upon this name and its mean
ing then will history again uncov.
or its brow, stand with bowed head
and pay its tribute TO the States
manship of Jefferson.
Upon an occasion like this,
when the American people are
called around the alter of their
country to offer oblation to those
first Fathers, who wrought so wise
ly and so we'll, how stately, how
glowing, how matchless do the
deeds of Jefferson appear
Wherever jefferson was there
always found a soul devotion to
the cause, power to defend and
maintain it, and Willingness to
protect it at all hazards. So earn
est was he that he gave up his
practice of law and made the life
and death of his country the all
important issue.
In his work in the Virginia AS
sembly he fought through three
Bills directly concerning mere
questions of law. but determining
the future of the country more
largely than any other acts-even
the acts of Washington himself.
Those three Bills, one for the sep
aration of Church and State, one
for the annulling Of primogeni-
ture, the third for the abolition of
entail.
In June, 1915, when Mr.. Jeffer-
son took his seat in the Continen-
tai Congress, he was preceded by
the fame of being one of the most
accomplished champions of the
cause, and this fame he renewed
and added to by his unexcelled
power with the pen This power
brought upon him the honor of
writing the Declaration of indie
pendence.
What thoughts must have crow
ded on the mind of Jefferson
when he penned that immortal pa
per! Firm in the conviction of
the righteousness of his country's
cause he went earnestly to work,
his pen guided as it seemed by in
spiration.
The Declaration of Independ-
ence is one of the sublimest polit- /
ical document ever written and
it alone should be sufficient to
stamp Thomas Jefferson's name
with Immortality.
1t was when a representative
government was an experiment
that he wrote that document
which declared that among the
self-eI ident truths we're these
that all men are created equal.
that they are endowed with inal. /
ionable rights; that governments
are instituted among men to pre- /
serve these rights, and that Gov
ernments derive their just powers
from the consent of the governed.
In stating those four propositions
he stated the alpha and omega of
all free governments.
No statesman ever lived who
more fully understood human ma.
ture than Thomas jefferson; no
one more fully understood the ca
pacity of the people for self-goy.
eminent; no one more fully un.
derstood the dangers to be guard.
ed against. He stated the princi.
Piles which underlie all free gov.
ernments, and then he applied
those principles to EVERY question
which arose during his time. We !
oday are inventing no new prin. {
'iples, we are simply applying new {