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thousand are pouring into Canadian tel
ritory from Our northwest, but Englan
still holds the land and our American
Will become subjects of Great Britain.
Emigration cares less about forms @
government and national names than
does about conditions of soil, climate
wages. cost of living, richness of mines
and a freedom of opportunity.
So as to Louisiana. Americans woul
have streamed across the Mississippi t.
settle the land beyond. but had England
been its sovereign lord the emgran
might have had as little thought o
throwing off the British dominion as Ii,
now has in settling in Canada.
Had Nj. jefferson been "timd, weak
ara vacillating.' had he waited just &
few days longer, the breaking out Of tn.
war would have caught him with the
Louisiana business unsettled. Great Brit
ain would have seized ut as French ter
| ritory. lie is a prophet, indeed, who car
| predict that We would have got Louisi-
ana anyhow had England been allowed
| to get her strong hands on it.
During former administrations the Mo
hammedan powers of the Mediterranean
! 6ocN
! friends" at a cost of S2,No,coO jefferson
determined to put an end to tribute
paying. Recurring to his old Paris plans,
| he sent war vessels to the Medterra mean
and began to persuade the inhdels with
! guns. Partly by hard lighting and part
| ly by negotiation ard enc final raneom of
| S6o, 900, Jefferson wrung an honorable
peace from the Mohammedans and they
troubled him more
IN the year 1900, John Adams being
president, Commodore cambridge was
compelled by the hey of Algiers To carry
Algeiine dispatches to the sultan at Con-
stantinople and the American man of
war. the George Washington, sailed
through the Dardanelles with the 'pi-
rate nag at the masthead
Adams did nothing about it; Jefferson
did. He made it impossible for that kind
of degradation to befall us again.
CHAPTER XIV.
The leader of Mr. Jeffcrson's admins-
tration on the floor of the house in con-
gress was one of the most wildly pic
turesQue figures that has ever appeared
in political history. John Randolph,
of Roanoke, was born in 1913. and among
his ancestors he counted not only the
Scotch earls of Murray but Pocahontas,
the daughter of a king. Whether a line
age of this sort justifies inordnate pride
Is fair question for debat e That the
Scotch earls of Murray at some time or
other were cattle thieves. just as most of
the other feudal lords of Norma ndy,
France. Germany and England were
plunderers by sea or land need not be
seriously doubted: yet. as earls go, they
stood high. Pocahontas. too. was only the
daughter OF naked Indian, who cooked
his fish with the scales on and the en-
trials undisturbed within, while the little
princess, in all the charms OF unclothed
nature, would play with the jamestown
boys. turning "A somerset equal to any
OF them Yet after ALL she was a prn
cess, and just as the prince of Wales In
England walked behind the African chief
because he was a king, so the descendants
of Pocahontas were proud of their de-
scent from the alleged savior of Smith
because she was a princess. Besides fami-
ly pride. John Randolph inherited vast
family esta tes-lands, houses, negroes.
horses. cattle-but no cash to speak of,
and the nevita BILE British debt. Randolph
complained, early and feelingly, of the
condition in which he found his estate,
and refers to ''the scufile with negroes
and overseers for something like a pit
lance OF rent and profit upon my land and
stock
A Charleston bookseller. who saw Ran
dolph in 1916, describes him as "a tall,
gawky, faxen- haired STRIPPING. with
complexion OF good parchment color.
beardless chin. and as much assumed
self-confidepce as any twofooted animal
l ever saw Later in life Randolph look
ed like an old shriveled woman. His bones
had no flesh his voice was feminine
Shrek, his face was literally covered with
countless wrinkles, his color that of Old
yellow parchment Beard he never had;
and he was q bundle of nerves whose ca
pacity for suffering was pathetic. Thin9s
which other men of less sensitive organi-
cation would never notice tortured him
to distraction. He was quick to love and
to hate. There was quality which We
call "womanly' in both his loves and his
hates.
He was the slave OF impulse and temper.
irritable to the last degree, incapable Of
sustained. systematic labor
Imperfectly educated, his genius undis
ciplined his faculties unframed he was
nevertheless q most effective speaker. On
the hastings he was superb a master Of
q crowd w men ltODtIt lOliipS WIS at tIS
University Of Virginia. he rode 80 miles
to hear John Randolph make one Of his
last speeches, and Mr.. Toombs always
referred to ii as one Of the most powerful
Of speeches.
The self-contidence to which the Char
lesion book dealer referred assumed
was not assumed. Randolph's confidence
in himself was real and was unlimited. At
a public dinner In 1875 he dared to propose
as a toast George Washington he
be damned
When this sentiment met disaproval the
bold youth added, IF he signs Jays
treaty"
His very first dash into politics was a
race for congress and the first opponent
whom ne met in public debate was Pat
rick Henry. No small game for Jack
Randolph" He struck at the antlered
stag He was only 26 when he thus
threw himself against the Washington-
Henry Marshall influence in Virginia. and
he was victorious. Such triumph was
not calculated to lessen his self-esteem
1t must have been a sight to see Ran
dolph dismount from his splendid saddle
horse at the door, and go stalking into
the house Of representatives, with a cap
on his head a whip in his hand top
boots on his feet. and a pair of pointer
dogs at his heels 1t made no difference
to him whether business had begun or
not; he would loudly salute his friends.
and after drawing off his gloves fire
away at whatever subject happened to
be before the house. II some member