The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-03

| content with the vice presidency. Then
came tho quasi-war with France and
with it Il decided reaction against JEFF
fersonian Republicanism. But in the
pride of their might tho Federalists
loverreached themselves in the fatal
alien and sedition acts, while Adams
necessary war with France by the reck-
less Hamlltonians. BY so doing ho
wrecked his party but rendered his
country the greatest service of his ca
rcer, Years later he said: 81 desire
no other inscription over my grave stone
than. Here lies John Adams, who took
upon himself the responsibility OF the
peace with France in the year 1900. 81
During these years the friends fire.
quently reminded each other that there
was nothing personal in their political
conflicts. But personal pique inevitably
crept in, and neither was always able
to refrain from attacking the other.
HIS defeat In the election OF 1900 was
great blow to Adams. Deprived of the
coveted second term, he behaved with
a pettiness that was out of keeping with
his real greatness. After putting FEEDER
alIsts IN every vacancy on which he
could lay his hands, he shook the dust
of the capital of his feet, and ON the
early morning of March 1, 1901, before
his Triumphant enemies were astil drove
off northward without waiting 10 see
his successor installed in Office IL WAS
seemingly n final sad ending TO u friend
ship between two men who, each in his
own way. were as sterling patriots as
ever lived.
But time works grc~t changes. JEFF |
ferson s administration, especially dur /
ing the first few years, proved so sue
cessful that most Federalists turned Re /
pubicans. Though he had bitter enc
mics who even plotted the formation of
a Northeastern Confederacy. they |
were not numerous enough to figure
largely in the election returns. After |
all. Adams hated Hamilton and his sat /
elites far more than he hated Jeffcr .
son. His son, John Quincy Adams. un-
able To swallow such British outragcs I
as that committed by the leopard - on 4
the Chesapeake, severed his rcla /
tions with the feeble remnant of the .
pro British Federalisrs and became /
Republican. When Timothy Pickering /
published a pamphlet arraiguinG the ad /
ministration, John Adams replied to ii, !
thus appearing as a supporter of JEFF /
ferson's policy
Touch OF Nature.
In 1904. Jefferson lost his lever dear
daughter Mary. 81. of my want, -
he wrote sadly, have lost even the half
Of all had. Ny evening prospects now
life The news proved too much for
great hearted Abigail Adams, Without
husband s knoNledgc, she wrote Jeiicr.
son letter of Tondolence in which kind .
feeling, goodness of heart, and a proud,
unforgiving spirit were curiously CO.
mingled. 1t was as follows;
QUINCY. goth May. lSO4.-Sir: Had
you been no other than the private in
hubltant OF Monticello I should. ere this
time, have addressed you with that sym
pathy which recent event has awakened
In my bosom: but reasons Of various
kinds withheld my pen. until the power
fu feelings OF my heart burst through /
the restraint. and called upon me To shed |
the tear OF sorrow over the departed /
remains OF your beloved and deserving .
daughtcr-an event which / most sim
cercly mourn. The attachment which | |
formed for her when you committed her
TO my care upon her arrival In q foreign
land. under circums ances peculiarly in
terestlng has remained with me TO this
hour. and the account Of her death. ,
which ] read in a late paper. recalled 10 /
my recollection the tender scene OF her 7
strongest senslbiIity. she clung around my
neck. and wet By bosom with her toars,
saying "Oh. now I have learned To love
you, why will they take me from you?"
II has been some time since I con- |
ceived that any event in this life could /
call forth feelings Of mutual sympathy. |
But ] know how closely cDtwined around |
a parents are those cords which bind |
the parental 10 the hlial bosom. and, when |
snapped asundcr. how agoniZlnE tho
pangs. 1 have tasted OF the bitter cup. |
and bow with reverence and submission
before the great Dispenser OF II. with |
out whose permission ard oveTruline
providence not IA sparrow falls 10 the !
ground That you may derive comfort
and consolation. In this dny OF sorrow
and af1lIction. from that only source cal |
culatcd TO heal the broken heart, n firm !
belief In the being, pcrtcctions. and at /
tributes OF God, Is the sincere and ardent
wish of her who once took pleasure In
III hp-
ABIGAIL ADAMS
Jefferson IS reply was that of II noble
man to noble woman After thaGklng |
her in suitable language. he made nm
earnest effort to revive the perlshlng
friendship between the, two families.
Several letters were exchanged, but the
wounds the Adamses believed they, had
received still smarted, and cordial re.
lations were not then restored
Blessed Are the Peace Makers.
In 1911 DR.. Benjamin Rush of Phil |
adelphia expressed 10 Jefferson desire
to bring about reconciliation, and
jefferson gladly embraced it. In let
ter TO Rush he said many complimentary
things of Adams and added that in the
PRECEDING summer two of his Virginia
neiphbors had visited Braintree and
that Adams had said to them: 81 al |
ways loved jefferson, and still love
HIM "Tbis, wrote Jefferson, sis
enough for mo, ] only needed this
knowledge to revive towards me all the
affections of the most cordial moments
of our livos' Thus encouraged, Rush
addressed to the two fellow laborers in
the cause of freedom an eloquent appeal
| to bedew their "letters Of reconciiia.
tion with tears of affection and Joy.
The hopes Of tho peacemaker were real.
| izod. Although Adams answered the APP
neal in a facetious and somewhat depre-
cntory letter, he ended with n half prom
! isc to comply with Rush 3 wishes. TAX
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