The Alaska daily empire., 1914-11-21
JEFFERsoN LIBRARY
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 SOLD TO PAY DEBTS
 Tho proposed snle oL MonQea iio t0s nome 0t lnomoe jeuafsoa 70 shs !. umleo state soyornmens py ita pres. { ent owner rlJ. hevs af tne 4Rm e. S5O000g. gecag aomo iaca of integ' sst conternlna tne ass days oi tne latheg o Dtmoc ya tae Rallaa l News
 fus spenainE che greater part ol | his oag ine.ot e5 yeaFs ID itnq aesfles or ms country @F 3eletson Aosl'o nimaet SO poor that hiaiiear Was l.ls oe would be without home at tAe last ano would leave no proYielon log bis oniy ehad, DTS. kandoiph ano her children.
 The embargo ol 1s0t, the one di5- dpcty unpopular act oi Mr. Jeiler- sons second administration was t1e direct cause Of great 1nancinl loss Co hm and wns one ot tho reasons why he legt Washington ln 1909 owing Szlr GOO. This was followed by the de' precision Of commerce caused by toe war of lsl2, which rendered cotton and tobacco almost worthless After tho war Mr. Jefferson relieved him aell of his most pressing emparrass ments by selling has most precious .s.,....r,t-..i,,st artd ona ttu lIen u.la eeHHIH ltally his oBn-his hbrary-tne re- suit ol 50 years of selection, He or ! fered it to Congress to replace Che x brary destroyed by the British n l lS14 It is soid chat he tried in every way to sut down the price 90 as Co dlsarm the Wilmosity ot his enemies and to prevent the purchase from be ing a burden to ,his friends. The com mittee valued 1t at 2S.O0O, which has been estimated to have been half ita eos, and about quarter Of its worth
 sixteen Wagon Loqds.
 Mir. Bacon, his old friend and sen' eral manager had the supervision oi removing the booia to Washington He stated that there were I6 wagon loads. Each wagon was to carry 5000 pounds to load and to have Sl day for delivering ghem in Washington l If thoy carried more than 5000 they were to have extra pay There wore all kinds ol books-bool1s in great many languages that ] know nothing about
 1 M. Jefgerson's collection of books i had been Increased in 1907 by Cham ceHor Wythe. who beQueathed him ! his library. It appears that Congress did not dare to take advantage of it's opportunity to give Mir. Jefferson suo- stantial relief by simply paying him l the just value of the famous colec- tion. 80 the matter went on record In Che minds Of some as an evidence of the ingratitude of the republic.
 Times grew harder after 1920 with the family at Monticello, and the cll- max was reached when Mir Jefferson now old and growing physically inc firm. found himself budened with the payment of @ security debt amount ing to S20000. He resolved to pay his most pressing debts by disposing of portions of his land, but there was mo one to buy and land at that time would not bring third of its value. As a last resort he peutioned the leg lislature to relax the operation of the law sufficiently to permit him to dis. pose of his land by lottery as had been done for the purpose of raising public money. Reluctantly the legisla- ture granted the request, but in the meantime the rumor had spread all throughout the United States that the author of the Declaration of Independ- ance was about to lose his home that had long been the shrine of Democ- racy From an generous minds there issued Q protest and in the early sum- mer of 1926, the last days of Mr. Jeff ferson's life, subscriptions were made for his relief. Philip Hone, mayor ot New York, raised without an effort sS,5O0. Philadelphia sent S5,0OO and Baltimore, S3.O00.
 Lottery Plan Abandoned.
 The lottery scheme was abandoned and dr. Jefferson was comforted in bis last hours by the belief that tho
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