Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-06-28

setting up aristOcracies and monarchies had
forefathers emigrated to America, subdued
the wilderness and won independence. Born
free and equal was phrase that must have
concrete reality.
Against the aristocratic tendencies that he
saw about him Jefferson set himself to fight
with a quiet but grim earnestness. For
time, however, the Adams Hamilton party trf.
umphed Adams was elected president to sue
coed Washington Jefferson forced to be
content with the vice-presdency. Then came
the quasi-war with France, and with 1t de-
cided reaction against Jeffersonian republican
ism. But in the pride of their might the Fed
eralists overreached themselves in the fatal
alien and sedition acts while Adams bravely
refused to be pushed into an unnecessary war
with France by the reckless Hamiltonians. By
SO doing he wrecked his party but rendered
his country the greatest service of his career.
Years later he said: I desire no other inscrip-
ton over my gravestone than this: Here lies
John Adams who took upon himself the re-
sponsibility of the peace with France In the
year 1907
During these years the friends frequently
reminded each other that there was nothing
personal in their political conflicts But per
sonal pique inevitably crept in, and neither
was always able to refrain from attacking the
other His defeat in the election of 1900 was
a great blow to Adams. Deprived OF the GOV
eted second term, he behaved with pettlness
that was out Of keeping with his real grent-
ness After putting Federalists in every va
cancy on which he could lay his hands, ne
shook the dust of the capital off his feet, and
on the early morning Of March 4, 1901, before
his triumphant enemies were astir, drove on
northward without waiting to see his success
sor installed in office. 1t was seemingly final
sad ending to a friendship between two men
who each in his own way, were as sterling
patriots as ever lived
But time works great changes Jefferson's
administration especially during the first few
years. proved so successful that most Federal
lists turned Republicans. Though he had bit
ter enemies who even plotted the formation of
a Northeastern Confederacy," they were not
numerous enough to figure largely in the cleo
ton returns After all, Adams hated Hamilton
and his satellites far more than he hated JEFF
ferson His son, John Quincy Adams, unable
to swallow such British outrages as that COM
mitted by the Leopard" on the chesapeake,
severed his relations with the feeble remnant
of the pro-British Federalists and became
Republican When Timothy Pickering pub
ushed a pamphlet arraigning the administra-
ton. John Adams replied to it, thus appearing
as supporter of Jefferson's policy.
In 1904 Jefferson lost his lever dear daugh-
fer" Mary 81 of my want he wrote sadly,
have lost even the half Of all l had. MY
evening prospects now hang the slender
thread of single life"
The news proved too much for great-hearted
Abigail Adams. Without her husbands knowl-
edge. she wrote Jefferson a letter OF con-
dolence in which kind feeling, goodness or
heart and proud. unforgiving spirit were
curiously commingled.
Jeffersons reply was that of a noble man
IN a noble woman. After thanking her IN
suitable language he made an earnest effort
m revive the perishing friendship between
the two families Several letters were ex-
changed but the wounds the Adamses believed
they had received still smarted, and cordla!
relations we're not then restored.
In 1911 Dr. Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia
exnressed to Jefferson a desire to bring about
a reconciliation, and Jefferson gladly en-
braced It. In letter to Rush he said many
complimentary things of Adams, and added
that in the preceding summer two OF his VIZ
ginia neighbors had visited Baintree and that
Adams had said to them: II always loved
jefferson. and still love him" This" wrote
Jefferson lis enough for me. | only needed
this knowledge to revive toward him all the
directions of the most cordial moments of our