The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-07-25


he should shelter himself from tn
weather.-Marquis de Chastellux.
@\HE THOMAS JEFFER
SON Memorial Founda
ton Is raising milliol
dollars by popular sub
scription to acquire Mon
MIN ticello and maintain 1t a
NZLNSNM a national memorial t,
NV WV the man whose hand pu
| WI 1M3 the Declaration Of indie
NA ~GEH pendence on paper. Th'
| MSSESNSX difficulties that have
VTAN%A heretofore prevented tn,
ND w acquisition of Jefferson's
Virginia home as a per
manent memorial have been overcome
Jefferson NJ Levy, present owner OF
Monticello, whose family has held title
to the property since his uncle, Com
modore Uriah P. Levy of the United
States navy, bought II in 1888, seven
years after Jeffersons death, has al
ways been an ardent admirer of the
author of the Declaration of Independ-
ence and was loath to part with Mon
ticello. Patriotic motives finally in
nuenced him to enter into an agree
ment with the Memorial Foundation.
Monticello was Jefferson's home
from ITO till his death, July 4, 1926,
and therefore famous But with it's
passage out of the possession of the
Jefferson family little more than a
century ago, It was all but forgotten
by the public; not completely, how
ever, because in 1865 the legality Of
the will Of Commodore Uriah Phillips
Levy, leaving the estate to the federal
or to the state government for use as
an agricultural college, or to Hebrew
charity organizations, was contested
in the courts by his family. In 1912 a
bill was introduced in congress by
Representative Martin w. Littleton
providing for the purchase of Month
cello by the nation. Although the
time was propitious because the Dem
ocratic party had just returned to
power, the bill was not passed, nor
was 1t In 1917 when it was revived.
Jefferson, as every good American |
knows or should know. was third Pres |
dent Of the United States, 18O1-O9. |
He was born in Virginia April 10, 1743.
He was graduated from William and
Nary college in 1852 and admitted to
he bar in 1857. He was member of
he Continental congress, 1775-1776:
member of the commlttee-Jefferson
Adams, Sherman, Franklin and Liv-
ngston-to draft the Declaration of
one of the signers: a
eading member of the Virginia legis-
AZURE, 1776; governor of Virginia,
779; member Of congress. 1888; min
ster to France, 1784-17S9; secretary
t state, 1790-1794, undo Washington
Ice president, 1797-1SO1 in the adj
of John Adams; founder
t the University of Virginia mar
led, 1772, Martha Wales SHELTON;
led July 4, 1925, at Monticello; left ,
ne son and five daughters.
While President, Jefferson pursued !
igorous policy of economy; hence {
he phrase "Jeffersonian simplicity" !
lie made many political removals from l
flee, the beginning of the "spoils s
vstem" Of Jackson's time. The prin- I
pal events of mis- administration E
ere these: The war against Tripoll. T
ecause Of piracy against American S
essels; the Louisiana purchase from c
rance; the passage of the twelfth
nendment to the Constitution; the \
lei between Hamilton and Burr and q
urr's trial for treason; the Lewis 7
Id Clark expedition; Pixies expedi- O
on to the Rocky mountains; Eng s
nd's assertion of the right to search n
merican vessels for British desert n
8; the embargo act; Fulton's Cler- n
ont In regular service between New n
ork and Albany; an act prohibiting W
q slave trade. v