The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1910-04-22

he wrote during the period which
we have been pleased TO call the
constructive period. his warnings
and his admonitions are as service
able today as when he first uttered
them.
Jefferson's is most fascinating
career. At the age Of thirty-one he
drafted the address to the king,
setting forth the rights Of the colo
nists; two years later he wrote the
Declaration OF Independence ard
for fifty years thereafter until his
death on July 4. 1926. he was ths
greatest champion of human riEhts
| in all the world.
| Jefferson's service as represen-
tatiye in state and federal legisla-
lures. as governor of Virginia. am
bassador to France. secretary II
state under Washington, vice pres
lident under Adams and president
together with his service in minor
offices, covered more than forty
years Of his eyentful career. nut
the work which he did for mankind
was so far-reaching in its effect and
so enduring in its character thai
jefferson is remembered for his
ideas rather than for the positions
which he held.
jefferson was the greatest con
struetive statesman known to his
: tory. His birth and environment
: were such as might naturally hav
made him an aristocrat but he be
came the greatest democrat; hi
!, wealth, considerable for that dal
might naturally have made him pal
I tial to the rich. but he cast his K
with the common people. Many wit
less education have from a feelir
Of superiority held aloof from the
!. fellows, but he employed his know
y edge Of history, of law, Of scienl
and of art for the defense and pr
" lection Of the masses.
He believed in the right Of q
~ ~ people to govern themselves and
" their capacity for self-governmer
When near the end Of life, fortifi
by an experience and observati
such as few men have had,
wrote: 81 am not among those W
po- fear the people. They, and not
rich.,ra our dependence for G
the tinued freedom
Of Only four years before his dei
he said: Independence can
son trusted nowhere but with the p
pie in mass. They are inheren
cen Independent of all but moral LAY
AT another time he said: mo OF
his repositories of power than the p
pie themselves have ever b
rom found, which did not end in 9
yerting to their own profit the ca
turk ings Of those committed to Il
ison charge. 4"
And, to add another extract 4
Sur-l his writings; THE people are
only sure reliance for the preset
this tion Of our liberty"
He not only believed in the
liter pie, but he understood the PEI
,ome and recognized the distinct
which everywhere exist, how
harslmuch concealed or denied: ]
Tthe analysis which he gave of
from ties and see how completely it
been borne out BY the history Of
2 at last hundred years;
" Men, by their constitutions,
naturally divided into two par
Nd. IL. Those who fear and distrust
people, and wish to draw all 20
fered from them into the hands u
ehen- higher classes. 2. Those who
sbotl tlfy themselves with the pc
Full have confidence in them. ch
This. them and consider them as
offer most honest and safe, although
" be the most wise depository Of the
'pture lie interest In every country
two parties exist. and in every
where they are free to think,
store and write, they will declare