The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-27
Thomas Jefferson Chosen By Washington For High
 Cabinet Position
RY JOHN BARR)

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 Thomas Jefferson, as we know, was General Washington's choice for first Secretary of State when he himself became the first Pres ident of the United States under the Constitution.
 Jefferson had just returned to America after several years abe sence in France, where he had succeeded Benjamin Franklin as minister plenipotentiary.
 Between Washington and Jef- ferson there was evidently the highest respect and appreciation of each others abilities--and they were in perfect accord in their faith in the right and the capabil- ity of the American people to gov- ern themselves.
 Just before leaving Virginia, in
 Rights of Man
 February 1790. to take up his du- ties as Secretary of State, a committee of Jeferson's consti- tuents came to congratulate him and express their approval of "his attachment to the rights of man. kind and to the institutions best calculated to preserve them" And Jefferson's reply on that oc- casion should be read and re-read by every American citizen:
 we have been fellow -labour- CTS and fellow sufferers; and Heaven has rewarded us with 8 happy issue from our struggles. It rests now with ourselves alone to enjoy in peace and con- cord the blessings of self-gov- ernment. 50 long denied to man. kind, to show by example the sufficlency of human reason for the care of human affairs; and that the will of the majority the natural law of every society -is the only sure guardian of the rights of man. Perhaps even this may sometimes err; but it's errors are honest, solitary, and shOrt-lived. Let us then, my dear friends, forever bow down to the general reason of the sO- ciety. We are safe with that, even In its deviati0ns, for it soon returns again to the right way"
 Jefferson was A when he ar- rived. in New York City to join Washington's cabinet. He had stopped at Philadelphia on the way, and saw Benjamin Franklin for the last time. He wrote his son-in-law, T. M. Randolph, My first object was to look out for a house in the Broadway, if possi- ble, as being the center of my business. Finding none there va cant for the present, I have taken small one in Maiden Lane, which may give me time to look about me-"
 Correspondence
 From the start Jefferson was overloaded with business, the State Department then also in- cluding the postofiice and patent oAice. But public business did not prevent him from conduct ing a delightful correspondence with his two daughters, the younger-Maria, and her married sister-Martha Randolph. To Maria, he wrote (April Il, 1790):
 'Where are you, my dear Maria? how do you do? how are you occupied? Write me letter by the first post, and answer me all those questions. Tell me whether you see the sun rise every day? how many pages 3 Gay you read in Don Quixote! how far you are advanced In him? whether you repeat 8 grammar lesson every day! what else you read? how many hours . day you sew? whether you have an opportunity of con" tinuing your music? whether you know how to make pud- ding yet? to cut out beef steak, to SOW spinach? or set 9 hen?"
 The capital having been re- moved from New York to Phila- delphia during 1790, in 8 letter dated philadelphia, March 9th, 179i" Jefferson writes to Maria. "On the 27th of February I saw blackbirds and robin redbreasts, and on the 7th of this month I heard frogs for the first time this year. Have you noticed the first annearanca of these things in