Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 51, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1879 — Page 7
THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24. 1879.
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The Love letter of" Two Great Hen. . Fornej'i Progress , "Women have been' known to gush over each other when tHey are very youhg, but the vehicle of love-letters is reserved' lor opCite sexes. If the literature of lot") could stricken out of the postoffices if this epistolary passion could be suddenly stopped -there-would be a woeful falling off in the Government revenues. But I have a case almost as exceptional as that of women enamored of each other, the episode of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the second and third presidents of the United States, succeeding George "Washington. TMy had had a long alienation, marked by muh mutual misunderstanding aadynger; and yet .how few men now living know that they had also a memorable reconciliation: the first indication of which is found in a letter
from Mr. Jefferson to Dr. Benjamin Rush, of Philadelphia, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and a man of great worth, the friend of Adams and Jefferson. How the quarrel began and ended was briefly- as follows: :- The death of the favorite daughter of 3Ir. Jefferson at .Monticello, in 1804, in the very height of his glory, was a terrible blow. He had just secured Louisiana for his country from Napoleon; he had just been re-elected, and his administration promised to be pro
longed, as indeed it was under Madison and Monroe, for the 20 years following. In this
( happy hour, Mr3. Maria Eppes, his youngest
daughter, was suddenly called away, it almost broke his heart, and he exclaimed in
the agony of his soul, "Mv loss is great; others may lose of their abundance, but I in my want have lost even the half of what I had." Among those who loved Maria was Mrs. Abigail, wife of John Adams. She had been her chaperon in London in 1779, while John. Adams, her lmsband, ' was minister, and afterward in Bar& 1782, hile he was commissioner, and she, the Massachusetts matron, loved the young Virginia mother. Abigail Adams, however, bad a severe account to settle with President Thomas Jeffer
son, and so when she wrote to him a letter full of love for the memory of his and her.dear v Maria, she could not help reminding him
that she "once took pleasure in subscribing herself his friend." This fired up Jefferson, and he frankly told her
bow he felt toward her husband, his predecessor, John Adams. "When he, Jefferson, came into the presidency in 1800, he found that John Adams had tilled all the best offices of his administration with his, Jefferson's, personal foes. "It seems," he said to Abby, "but common justice to.leave a successor free to act byintrunients of his own choice." She retorted with gFeat spirit and ability: "It was difficult to sav who was
to succeed her husband .as president, Aaron
Burr or Thomas J enerson ! 1 ins was a pal-
nable hit. as it was lonir doubtful whether the
adroit, unsuspected traitor should go in, or the Virginia patriot. "Besides," said Abby, "General Washington left no vacancies for my husband to fill when he left office!" And then, after someother hard reminders, among them the charge that Jefferson had pardoned Callender, ofPhiladeiphia, who had been convicted of a libel upon her husband, she told him her real grievance as follows: "Soon after my ; eldes son's return by the United States district judge (of Massachusetts) to an office in which no political concerns entered, personally known to you and possessing all the qualifications, you yourself being, judge, which :you had designated foroffice, as tioon as Congress gave the appointments , to the president you removed him. This looked, so particularly pointed that some of your best friends in Boston at the time expressed thuir regret that you had done so.1' This son was the afterward celebrated Jok Quincy Adams, father of the still living ". Charles Francis Adams, whose memoirs, edited by the latter, are among the most eurious treav urea of our literature. Jefferson was thunder struck at thisUtatement of Mrs. John Adams.
John Quincy Adams had been a Boston commissioner in bankruptcy, and when the law was changed his office ceased, and President Jeffjrson never knew of k. Such ac-;" cidents happen constantly; and the Virginian hastened to explain to the angry iew England lady: "'Had I known that your' son had acted, it would have been a real pleasure to me to have preferred him to some who were named in Boston, in what was deemed the same line of politics." To this evident offer of reconciliation Abigail soht an answer, but not a kind one, and the wound rankle! in Jefferson's mind for over seven years! The independent lady conducted the whole correspondence without the knowledge of her husband, John Adams; but whenVshe had "closed this correspondence, ; to , use her own words, withXthe Virginian presidentof the United States,die handbd t)te letters to her husband, who read thenroveryivitn surprise, and indorsed them,fotowa, when he filed them away, where they yere found after his death, . among bis mass ( manuscripts. -
: v. ',v "yuiNCT, .November 19, 1804. ' "ThV wJio'.e of this correspondence was ' begun flfi'dWjnductcd without my knowledge . or sapieipii Last evening, and this morning, at the-4et' .of -.Mrs. Adams, I read .the whole.4- I Ihwe no remarks, to make upon it at this time Aid in this place.'The mcomfexrable Dr. Benjamin Rush was
- the friend of Vth the ex-presidents, and was , ; pained at thisOung alienation; and as one of 'V-" the surviving Ygners- of the Declaration of C Independence tbluntarily resolved to bring f the venerable sktesmen together; and ae- '-, cordingly; in Dejbmber of 1811, he received
toe following trout rhomas J enerson in reply ; to several of his athctionnte importunities: r TO DR. bInjamiw bush. ; " . "Poplar FoateT, December 5, 1811. "Dcak Sir: White at Monticello I am so much en grossed, by business or society that , 'I can write , .on natters ; of strong "? urgency. Here .'I lkye leisure, as J have ' ? everywhere the disposition, to think 'of my . friends. I necur, therefore, to the subject of your kind letters relating to Mr, Adams' and i f -r i i t
myseu, wmcn late otsurrenoe Das again .presented to me. I conmunicated to you y r, the correspondence wbjchui&d parted Mrs. ' . j j ' e : . k-iL.i t i J a
awna lua in j 11, in pr"& luftb x uuuiu uub .-. give IriencUhip in icnangt for such sentif ments as she had recently jken up toward ''r myself, and avoed and njaintained in her -letters to me. Nothing but atotal renuncia- ' tion of these could admit a reconciliation, and that cookr'be cordial onhVht, proportion as
- the return to ancient cprrutn . was beheved
other topics, ae adverted to the unprincipled licentiousness' of the press against myself, adding:.. "I always loved Jefferson, and still love him.". . -. - - "This is enough forme. I only needed this knowledge to revive toward him all the affections of tbe most cordial moments of our lives. Chauging a single word only in Dr. Franklin's character of him, I knew him to be Always an bonest man, often a great one, but sometimes incorrect and precipitate in his judgments; and it is known to those who have ever heard me speak of Mr. Adams that I have ever done him justice myself, and defended him when assailed by others, with the single exception as to political opinions. But with a man possessing so
manv other estimaDle qualities, wny suouiu we be dissocialized by mere differences of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, or anything else? . His opinions are as honestly formed as my own. Our different views of the same subject are the result of a difference in our organization and experience. : "No ground for jealonsy now existing, be will certainly give fair play to the natural warmth of his heart. Perhaps I may -open the way in some letter to my old friend Gerry, who, I know, is in habits of the greatest intimacy with him. "I have thus, my friend, laid open my heart to you, because you were so kind as to take an interest in healing again Revolutionary affections, which have ceased in expression,, fonly, . but not in their existence. God ever blejs you, and preserve you in life and health!" . ;-, And soon after this letter, to the 4th of July, 182G, whun they both died afew hours apart from each other, Adams at Quincy,
Massachusetts, and Jnt-rson at: jMontieeno, Virginia: Adams in his Dincty-first year, and Jefferson in his eighty-third; they wore close friends. It is to bring back, perhaps, the most agreeable part of those two lives that I turn to a lew of the old letters in the sixth volume of Jefferson's
Complete Works, published by the order of
tne American congress, ironi ine original
manuscripts in the National librarv at
"Washington City.
Dr. Hush did not. evidently, wait long
before actinir on Jefferson's kind wish for
the restoration of friendship ' with John
Adams; and Mrs. Abagail, the impulsive
wife, was sracefally eairer to make the ter-
vent love-match complete. 1 find few of
her letters, but it is evident, from the fact tliat Jefferson bc-ran soon to send his love
to her. that she had quite made peace with
her dear Maria s lather.
John Adams was a voluminous, ready.
almost ravenous writer, and, like his' emi
nent son, John Quincy Adams, quick to quarref, but also, like me&t such natures,
full of houestv and truth. Many letters passed, but bc-fore 1 notice those of Adams
I find one from ' Jefferson, announc
ing the death of the kind mediator, Dr..Ben-
janun Rush, TUOMAS JEKFKRSON- TO JOHX A DAVIS. . "MoxTicELLO.January 21, 1812.
"Here wo do little in the fine way, but in
coarse and- middling good a great deal.
Every famBy in the country is a manufactory
within itself, and is very generally able- to
make witbm lUelt ail the stouter and mm
duns: stuns for its own clothing and house
hold -use.. We tin.ider a shep for every
person in the lamily as sufficient to clothe it,
in addition to the cotton, hemp, and flt.x,
which we raise ourselves. For fine stuff we shall depend on your Northern manufactor
ies. -Of these, that is to say of company
establishments, we have none. We use little
machinery. Thepinning jenny and loom
witn Hying shuttle can be managed in a
familv, but nothing more complicated.
"A letter frm you caJls up recollections
very dear to my mind. It carries me back
to the times when, beset with difficulties and
dangers,' we were fellow-laborers in the same cause, struggling for what is most valuable
to man, his right of self-government. Labor
ing always at the same oar, with some wave overhead threatening to overwhelm us, and yet passing harmless under our bark, we kne w not how we rode through the storm with
heart and hand, and made a happy port." THOMAS JEFFKRSOX.TO JOHN ADAMS. "Monticello, May 2", 1818.
'Another of our friends of '7li is gone, my
dear sir, another of the co-signers of the in
dependence of our country. And a better man than Rush could not have left us, more
benevolent, more learned, of liner genius, or more honest. We, too, must go, and that
ere long. I believe we are under a half
dozen at present; I mean the signers of the Declaration. Yourself, Gerry, Carroll, and myself are all I know to be living.
l am tne only one south ot the ifotomac. Is
Robert Treat Payne or Floyd living? It is
long since I heard of them, and yet I do not
recollect to .have heard of their death.
JOHS ADAMS TO THOMAS J EFFEK-SON
Many- letters were written by both in the
interval, but the first 1 find from John
Adams is Dated June 28, 1830. "Qcik-oy, June 28, 1813.
"We have war now in earnest. I lament the contumacious spirit that appears abut
me. But 1 lament the cause that has given
too much apology for it, the total neglect and absolute refusal of all maritime protection
and defense. ' Money, mariners, and soldiers would be at the public service if only a few
frigates had been ordered to be built. "With
out . this our Union will be a brittle china
vase, a house of ice, or a palace of glass.
"1 am, sir, with an anectionate respect,
yours. V.
Here John Adams gives Jefferson ' a slap
lor his opposition to a navv. which Jell us
quite unprepared for the great naval power
of our toes. ' ;-: ,
JIFFERSON TO JOHN ADAMS. "Moxticello, June 27, 1813,
' "Shall we, at our aVe, become the athlete
of party and exhibit ourselves as gladiators in tke arena of the newspapers? 2s othing in the universe could induce me to it. . My
mind has been long fixed to bow to the judg
ment of the world, who will judge by my acta and will never take counsel from me as to what that judgment shall be. If your objects and opinions have been misunderstood,
if the measures and principles of others nave
been wrongfully imputed to you, as I believe
they have been, that you should leave an ex
planation of them would be an act of justice
to yoarsell. x . will add that it has been
hoped that you would leave such explana
tions af would place every saddle on its right horse, ,and replace on the shoulders of other
and the Hampdens of past ages, so of those among as whose names may happen to be remembered for awhile, the next generations will judge, favorably or unfavorably, according to the complexion of individual minds, ' and the side they shall themselves have taken; that nothing new can be added by you or me to what has been said by others, and will be said in every age in support of the conflicting opinions on government; and that wisdom and duty dictate an humble resignation to the verdict of our future peers. - In doing this myself, I shall certainly not suffer moot questions to affect the sentiments of sincere friendship and respect consecrated to you by so long a course of time, and of which I now repeat sincere assurances."
JOHN" ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON.
' f T lOtrt
vuiicx, tiune auin, 1010.
"You never felt the terrorism of Chase's re
bellion in Massachusetts. I believe you never
tolt the terroism ot Uallatm s insurrection in Pennsylvania. You certainly never realized the terrorism of Frier's most outrageous riot and rescue as I call it; treason, rebellion, as the world, and great judges, and two juries pronounce it. ; ''You certainly never felt the terrorism excited bv Genet in 1793, when 10,000 people
in the streets of Philadelphia day after day threatened to drag Washington out of his home and effect a revolution in the
government or compel it to declare war in favor of the French Revolution and against England. The coolest ' and the firmest
minds, even among the Quakers in Philadel
phia, have given their opinions to me that
nothing but the yellow tover which removed
Dr. Hutchinson and Jonathan Dickinson
Sargent from this world, could have saved
the United Stales from a total revolution of
government. I have no doubt you were fust -leep;n philosophical tranquility when
10,(HK) people, and perhaps many more, were parading the streets of Philadelphia on the evening of mv Fast Day. When even
Governor Mifflin himself thought it his dutv
to order a patrol of horse and foot to pre
serve the peace; when -Market street wa3 as
lull as men could stand by one another, and
even be lore mv door; when some ot my
domestics in frenzv determined to racrifice
their lives in my defense; when all vfcre
ready to mako a desperate sally among the multitude, and others were vdth difficulty and danger dragged back by the others;
when I myself judged it prudent and neces
sary to order chests ot arms lrom t ie war office to be brought through by lanes and
back doors, determined to defend my house at the expense of my life and the lives of the few, verv few, domestics and friends
ithin it. "What think vou of terrorism,
Mr. Jefferson? Shall I investigate the causes.
the motives, the incentives to these terrorisms? Shall I remind you of Philip Freneau, of Loyd, of Ned Church? Of Peter Markoc,
of Andrew Brown, of Duane, of Callender, of Tom . Paine, of Greenleaf, of Cheatham, of Tcnnison at New York, of Benjatuin
Austin at Bostom?
""Where is the terrorism now, my friend?
There is now more real terrorism in New
Englaud than there ever was in Virginia.
X he terror of a cirM war a la endue, a
division of the St fi etc., etc. How shall
we conjure down damnable rivalry be
tween Virginia and Massachusetts? irginia
had recourse to Pennsylvania and ew i ork;
Massachusetts has now recourse to New-
York, They have almost got New Jersey and Maryland, and they are aiming at Pennsylvania. And all this in the midst of a
war with England, when all Europe is in
flames.
I will give you a hint or two more on the
subject of terrorism. When John Randolph
in the Uou.se and Stephen 1 hompson Mason
in the Senate were treating me with the utmost contempt; when Ned Livingston was
threatening me with impeachment for the
murder of Johnatlian Bobbins, the native-of
Danvers in Connecticut; when I had certain
information that the daily language in an in
surance othce in Boston, was, even from the
mouth of Charles Jarvis, ' V e must go to
I hiladelphia and drag that John Adams from
his chair, 1 thank God that terror never yet seized on my mind. But I have had more
excitements to it from 1761 to this day than
any other man. JN ame the other it you can 1 have been disgraced and degraded, aud 1
have a right to complain. But as I always
expected it, 1 Lave always submitted to it,
perhaps otten with too much tameness.
The amount of all the speeches of John
Kandolph in the House lor two or
three . years is that himself -and myself
are the only two honest and con
sistent men in the United States. .Himself
eternally in opposition to government, and
myselt as constantly in lavorol it. lie is now in correspondence with his friend Quincy.
W hat will come of it let irginia and Mas
sachusetts judge. In my next you may find
something upon correspondence; vv hig and Tory; Federal and Democratic; Virginian
and Novanglian; English and French: Jac
obinic mid Despotic, etc."
' JEFFE1WOX TO JOHN A 4 A MS. "Monticello, June 30, 1813.
"As to myself, I shall take no bart in any
discussions. I leave others to judge of what
I have done, and to give me exactly that
place which they think I have' occupied.
Marshal as written libels on one side; others,
I suppose, will be written on the other side
and the world will sift both and separate thi
truth as well as they can. .1 should see with
reluctance the passions of that day rekindled
in this, while so many of the actors are liv
ing, and all are too near the scene not to participate in sympathies with them. About
tacts you and 1 can not diner, because truth
is our mutual guide. And u any opinions
you may express should he dinemnt lrom
mine I shall receive,tbem with tbe liberality and indulgence which I ask for my own.
aud still cherish with the warmth, the senti
ments of affectionate respect, of which I can with so much truth, tender you the assur
ance.
express confession to me, and by Pickering's confession to the world, in his letters to Sullivan, two of them, nt least, were fastened upon him by necessity, liecause he got no other. The truth is. Hamilton's influence over him was so well known that no man fit for the office of state or 'war would accept either. He was driven to the nwessity of appointing such ns would accept, and this necessity was, in my opinion, the real cause of his retirement from otlice; for you may depend upon it, that retirement was not voluntary. "My friend, you and I have passed our lives in serious times.. I know not whether we have ever seen any moments more serious than the present. The Northern States are now retaliating upon the Southern States their conduet from 1 7 to 1800. It is a
mortification tome to see whut servile mimics
they are. Their newspapers, pamphlets.
handbills and their legislative proceedings are copied from the examples Bet them, especially by Virginia and Ketitui ky. I know
not which party has the most unblushing point, the most lying tongue, or the most impudent and insolent, not to say the most seditious and rebellious pen. .
"it you Uijsire explanation on any ef the points in this letter you shall have thern. This correspondence, 1 hope, will be concealed, as long as Hutchinson's and Oliver's; but I should have no personal objection to the publication of it in the National Intelligencer. I am, and shall be for life, your friend.' JOUN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON. Quinct, July 13, 1813. "It is very true, as yeu justly observe. I
can say nothing new on this or any other subject of government. But when Layafette harangued vou and me and John Quincy
.uams tnrougn a wnoiej evening,- m your hotel, in the Cul-de-Sac, at Paris, and developed the plans then in operation to reform
France, though I was as silent as you were, I then thought I could say something new to
him. . - JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON. 1 "Quincy, July 15, 1818.
"David Hume had made himself so fash
ionable with tho aid of the court and clergy.
atheist, a3 thev culled him, and by his elegant
ih-s against tue ivepuoucans and gaudy lauo
ings ol tho courtiers,- that he had nearly
aughed into contempt luipin, Sydney, and
even Liocke. It was ridiculous and even
criminal in almost all Europe to speak of
constitutions, or writers upon the principles
or ine iaorics oi mem.
"Let me now ask you very seriously, mv
inenu, Where are now. in 1813, the perlec
tion and tho perfectibility of human nature?
nere.is now the progress of the human
uiind? Where is the amelioration of socie
ty? Where the augmentations of human comforts? Where the diminutions of human
pains and miseries? I know not whether the
last day of Dr. loung can exhibit to a wind
unstaid by philosophy and religion (for I
hold there can be no philosophy without n-ligion) more terrors than the present state
of the world. When, where and how is the
present chaos to bo arranged into order?
'1 here is not, there can not be, a greater
abuse of words than to call the writings of
Callender, Paine, Austin and Lowell, or the
speeches of Ned Livingston and John Ran
dolph public discussions, the ravings and
rantings ot Bedlam merit the character as
well; and vet Joel Barlow was about to re
cord Tom Paine as the great author of the 'American Revolution.' If he was, I desire
that mv name be bloUed out forever from
its records."
And now Mrs. Abigail insists on having
her rights. : ';.
"l nave been looking lor some time lor a
space in my good husband's letters to add the
regards of an old friend, which are still cher
ished and preserved through all th
changes and vicissitudes which have taken
place since we first became acquainted, and
will, l trust, remain as long as
"A.ADAMS."
Nothing, however, in the character of these
two men was more contrasting than the
way they felt toward "Washington. Jefferson
saw in that illustrious man a rare combination; not a perfect person, certainly, but the
nttest lor tne period; a cold, Drave, cautious,
and at all times a judicial mind. Adams regarded Washington as the monopolist of
popular idolatry, tbe figure that stood in the way and hid the same from others, and broke out on more than one occasion. There is
now under lock and key, in the .safe of the Pennsylvania Historical society near the
southwest corner of Spruce and Eighth
streets, an original letter from John Adans against Gebrge Washington that I have read
with a great deal of curiosity. It is bitter beyond expression, and it is wisely kept from ' publication, although I
hear that there ire more than
100 copies in circulation, rum now
to Jefl'erson's portrait of George Wash
ington, which I take from Volume VI of
the Government edition.
as to innro a current of outer air through them, night and day, to the extent of not
less than 3,000 cubic feet per hour to each
person, and our habits ot lite shall nave increased our average breathing capacity, and
accustomed us to outdoor exercise to as great
an extent as that habitual to the mountaineers, we shall not need to envy them their exemption from pulmonary diseases.
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-sincere, in these lauoaicea sentiments or I the barmen they snittea on yours.
1 asoociatod Mr. Adams, knowing I "But all this, my friend, i
hers I had associated Air. Adams, knowing
the weight which heropinioni had with him, notwithstanding she, declared in her, letters that they were notjeommunicated t -hlm. A lat incident has satisfied met bat I frrOogV ed him ai wefl as her.in not yielding ntke
confidence to this, assurance on - her park.
Two of the Mr , my neighbors and
this, my friend, ia - offered
merely . for your consideration and judgment, without presuming to anticipate what you alone are qualified
to decide for yourself. ' I mean to express iny awn purpose only and the reflections whicl have led to it. Tome, then, it appears
that tjiere nave been diBerences of opinion
friends, took a-tour to the northward during I .and party differences from, the first establish-
lbs last, tummrr. . In Boston they ell into
com par y with Mr. Adams, and, by his invitation, f e4 a day with him at Braintree. Hftspo'v : out to them everything which came uppermost, and as it occured Jo his mind, wiihoat any reserve, and seemed most disposed to iU oo t! t which hc-en-d during his own aL. ' -"' -n. ?H foke of kis masters as he t J heals ? C partments as acting t Lis cont tad cAea jainst Lis c, L , Amor j
menl j of. governments to the present day, .and on the same question which
now (lvit.es out country; that these will con
tinue through all future time; that every one
, JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON. Quincy, July 9, 1813. "I recollect, near some 30 years ago, to
have said carlessly to you that I wished I could find time and means to write something upon aristocracy. You seized upon the idea, and encouraged me to do it with all that friendly warmth hat is natural and habitual to you. I soon began, and have
been writing upon that subject ever Bince. I have been so unfortunate as never to be able to make myself understood. ' "Your agioroV are the most difficult animals to manage of anything in the whole theory and practice of government. They will not suffer themselves to be govoroed. They not only exert all their own sub tlity, industry and courage, but they employ tbe commonality to knock te pieces every plan and model that the mosV honest architects in legislation can invent to keep them within bounds. Both patrician and plebeians are as furious as the workmen in England U demolish labor-saving machinery." JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON. Quiuct, July, 1813. "Your character in history may easily be
forseen. lour administration will be quoted
takes kis side ia favor of the many or of the I by philosophers as a model of. profound wie-
M A- LI. . . ' . i . f 3 - - 1 a " 1 J
low Bororamg to nu coiwv iiion ana tue cir
cutnsvnces in which nets piaeea, that cnn
ions ,.-ch are equally honest oJ bou i. s
should hot -itrect personal esteem or l I
interc je: that aswjuc- b-we:jNr
Cotti mal tie Gracchi, t 1 Vix
dom; politicians, as weak, superficial, and
SitAt-s oo. juine, like rope s ' woman, wi.l Lav no character at alL The impious
idolatry to 'f ashington destroyed all character. 1.J I y of ministers was not the rsr3 1 u the tragedy; though bj hi own
..' TO MR. MELIbll. "Monticello, January 13, 1813.
"You expected to discover the difference of our party principles in General Washington's valedictory and my inaugural address;
not at all. General Washinton did not harbor one principle of Federalism. He was neither an angloman, a monarchist, nor a separatist. He sincerely wished the people to have as much self government as they were competent to exercise themselves. The only point on which he and I ever differed in opinion was, that I had more confidence than he had in the natural integrity and discretion of the people, and in the safety
and extent to which they might trust them
selves with the control over their govern
ment. . He has asseverated to me a thousand
times his determination that the existing government should have a fair trial, and that in support of it he would spend the last drop of his blood. He did this tbe more repeatedly, because he know General Hamilton's political bias, and my apprehensions
from it. Xt is a mere calumny, therefore, in
the monarchists, to associate General W ash
ington with their principles.
No influence, alter Washington,, grows
with the years into a more steady radiance
in the firmament of fame than that of Thom
as Jefferson; and in the light of present
events, the tremendous harvest of his chief
sowing, that influence assumes more
than classic symmetry, x here is a beauty in
his whole life, a superb toleration in his ex
ample, a religious coi-fidence in tbe people, an inspiration in his prophetic statesmanship,
a glory in his own Republican democracy, a
magnificent courage in his contempt for the hypocrisy and cruelty of the British aristocracy in our two wars with England, for our
free institutions, so irequentiy verined since;
his holy hostility to human slavery; his profound anxiety for the education of the poor
and the cultivation ot our party leaders, his wonderful confidence, subsequently confirmed in our country's growth; that find no parallel in any human being with one illustrious exception, "the Father of his Country " , ' :m , "' " " , . Fresh Ali IndUpenslble. 1 . (AawricM Architect. . But one thing is certain, that the essential element in the good effect of any climate is the opportunity of breathing an unlimited amount of fresh outdoor air, whatever its quality, and we may confidently assume that whenever our buildings shall be so arranged
Teaching Children to Cook, f Harper's SIaeasiDe.1
It is generally supposed that small chil
dren, from their volatile temperaments and
torgetfulness, can not be taught or trusted with cookery. Miss Corson has proved quite
the contrary. Last year she had a class of children from the New York Home for Sol
diers' Families; this year 10 of them do the entire cooking for the inmates, at least 150, in that institution. In all the classes of the
New York Cooking School no pupils ore more industrious, helpful and intelligent than
the little children from the mission schools
anil charitable institutions.
In point of fact, the children's classes are
the most charming and useful and important,
for the wholesome enect they will have on the strata of society they represent. The artisan course ot- instruction for these little
folks and elder girls comprises the prepara
tion and cooking of simple dishes, setting the table, bringing in the dinner, waiting
at table, removing and washing soiled dishes,
and regulating kitchen and dining room.
l-t us go and take a peep at tbe children.
little flock, under the guidance of a kindly
matron, is passing down to the basement; we enter with them. IT.-vr merrily they babble
as they divest themselves of hats and shawls! AVhat a ripple and trill of childish laughter
as they strive for the first rows of chairsl
Listen. A sudden hush, a settling down in
seats and a smoothing of aprons as Miss Cor
son appears, and, dotting bonnet and cloak,
takes her position behind the table, with a cheery " Good afternoon, children."
1 he lesson of the day, says the blackboard,
is "Fried Fillets of Flounder," "Maitre a lio-
tel Butter," "Grilled Fish Bones," and "Car
amel Custards.
Two or three girls are u?uallv chocon
different ones at each lesson to awist in
making the dishes; o when the material was laid on the table and the lesson announced
Miss Corson said, "What little girl is anxious
to help me cut the fillets? Some one with
ftrng hands."
A dozen hands were held up at once. Se
lecting one of the eldest girls, who onw
around and itood bv hr 'et Mis Corson,
taking up a sharp. thin-bladl knife, deftly
cut off the wbol" fde piece or fillet of the
I'-h entire, and then banding the knife to the
watchlul girl at her side, gave minute direc
tions from time to time, which were followed
so accurately that the remaining three fillets
were soon lying, skin side down, on t lie coun
ter. .Miss Corson, then taking the knife
showed the class how to cut the fillets clean
from the skin.
Meanwhile another little girl is called for
to make the breading. With flushed cheeks
and an air of importance, a little wee thing
steps up, seizes the roller and vigorously rolls
the bread crumbs to powder, bents an egg up
with a t-poonful of water and retires. The elder girl, who by this time has prepared tho
remaining fillets, breads them, dips them in
the egg and in tbe bread again, and lays them on a dish, in readiness to be fried a
delicate brown in smoking-hot lard.
"Neve, children, you observe that we have
a nice bone left; shall we throw it away or
use it? I think it would be nice grilled. We
will take some mustard, salt, pepper, salad
ml and vinegar mr.ke a paste of them and
spread it over the bone. Then let ns broil it on an oiled gridiron, and afterward serve it
with sprigs of parsley or slices ol lemon
Now, besides the fillets from the fish, we have
this, making two delicious dibes where peo
ple commonly make but one.
The children looked very wise, n little
hungry for the coining feast, and exceedin
lv interested. An unusual flutter took place,
however, when two little girls were called for to make "lemon custards," and one to mako
"Maitre d Hotel Butter.' All the hands went
up at once at the mere mention of euttards.
The fortunate girls who were chosen marched around behind the Counter, and tho resigned
remainder subsided into placid attention.
One of the little maids beat the eggs lustily, while the other, sweetening and flavoring a quart of milk according to direction, set
it on the fire to bjil stirring it care
fully; then a sieve was held over the beaten
eggs1 the milk with its lemon rind and sugar
strained therein, then poured into cups, which were placed in a baking-pan "with hot water
surrounding them, the little girl then cautiously slid the pan into the oven, her face
aglow with pride m the safe performance of
her task. Meanwhile the third littlo damsel had chopped her parsley, mixed it - with an ounce of butter, ateaspoonful of lemon-juice,
and a little salt and pepper, after which she
retired to her seat; and another small child
came forward to drop the fillets in the smok
ing lard. All the class waited for the lemon
custards, casting troubled glances at the clock
As they were slowly drawn forth, from the oven and placed upon the table, the lesson
concluded, the children crowded around to
taste and receive their shares of tbe finished results of the lesson. Little tin pails popped
up mysteriously to receive the well-earned
dainties. Hate and shawls were hastily don
ned, the little ones hurried out of doors, and,
pausing on the pavement, cooed and fluttered with satisfaction over the contents of their little pails like so many doves in a dovecote
pecking corn. ' "
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A New Method of Treating; Consumption.
There has been a good deal of discussion
in the German medical press with regard to
a new method of treating consumption,
Some time ago Professor Klebs, of Prague,
in addressing tbe German association for the
advancement of science and medicine at
Munich, called attention to the large hum
ber of internal diseases which are known to
be caused by infection, classing among them
tubercular disease. Dr. -Max bcbneller.
privat-docent of the University of Greifs-
wald, was interested in tbe subject, and
sought to elucidate it last winter by a series
of experiment. He produced a tuberculosis
in several rabbits, and subjected one group ot
them to the ordinary treatment. Ibis group
soon died, but a perTeot cure was enected in
the case of the others, which were put for several hours a day in a box filled with the vapors of a solution of what the Germans call "benzoesaures Natron." Struck by these
experiments, professor Kokitsahky, or Inn
bruck, has caused his consumptive patients in the hospital there to inhale similar vapors daily; and the results are said have far surpassed his boies. It is not pretended that a remedy for this frightful disease in all its forms has been discovered, but high medical
authorities in Germany are of opinion that real advance has been made.
The eomtng presidential year promises to be
tbe most eventful aud thrilling la a political wiise fiat we have ever witnessed, and will determine questions of the iuot-t vital Import
ance to every ciiin or ineNnie ana nation.
It Is not lranrouaoie indet-u, it lr;almcst cer
tain that.npon tbe determination of these questions, will drpend the perpetuity of our
1-teseni Fysiem ci iree Koverunitiji. These qnetioni will ba thoroughly discussed during tne present sew ion of CougrAa.
me tsenuaei uas airusra lor a nnirciam,
experienced special correspondent at Wash
ington, nnti, in anuition togiving a i rne account of all the geueral proceedings in that body, will fttve tne lending speeches of our
inofit prominent fttatzsmen, ana witnout de
priving onr patronn oi ine usual amount oi readme mat er. The Beiitlnel will hereafter
con ml n a Riiop'enmnt, mailing in all teixty
t lnmnci composition.
in wort, it h I ho purpose of the Sentinel.
as a stef dfnnt watch mau of public intelligence lo 1o It wboleduty In h fiord lug iuiorimUon to its snhscribers upon all these topics of such
Asln 76 no In TS3 Indiana win v. railed uren
to take a firt potitlnn In tbe front of the great contest, and upon the nucceas or failure or ihe
eat and eallaut Democracy or our state wiu
depend the fate of Indues the most portentous ever submitted to the arbitrament of a free
p-op!. Wei.iinll also specially call attention, from
day to day, a occasion may require, to an en
tirely rn.iw in ine potuict u our Dime
v e mean tne lorcea emigration lor urn iontry partisan pnrorRea of i.auper negroe flora the South Into Indiana. The managers and leader of the Republican party, in ourHlateand at. Wrftirtnglon.are now f ngwd in thiM nefarious work, ard are alUMnpilng by every
an in their power to promote lis advance
ment. They bftvefHlled.ulterly fai;el, loconvinee our people of the correctness of their p'jlliical principles tiy reasou or areumeut:
their appeals to haired and prejudice nave
linen barni f: tneir iavin auu corrupt expend it ure of public and private moueyhave proved wholly luiile. They propose now ty uo African invasion of woise than a vaodal horde of ber gars and mendlmntH to override the voice ol the people of tbe State, and to
drown tbe Democratic) majority. The hut resort, the forlorn hope, tbe awaaltlng party, the otcket Asmlltttg corps of KepubllcanlMn in
Indiana, n tons maae up not irom tne
tianlem, tiarosoas, lieilinansor&nscKieiorus
ot the Plata: not from tbe Intelligence or ability of that party, but is composed of a motley, partl-oolored Rare of wretched Held
net: roes lrom tne fouiii l tie irotu xt-U scorn
of ihis worthless Importation are made use of
lo destroy the Iree franchise of resident citizen, and to tax our means of home labor and
domeatio Kobslirteuce for the support of the
political k niln of a defeated factimi. The Mrepless Sentinel, upon the heights of popular rights and popular liberty, predicts that this movf mc nt will alo be a failure.
With respect to this before unheard of
method of manufacturing party mbioiities In
a Stale, we shall at all times give the latent and
moot rename intelligence.
The American Democracy, tne f ederal
Union, the rights of the people and the Hlatei, one aud inseparable now and forever.
mo mcr.m oi tne p-eniinei as airenerai news
paper are so well known among the farmers of this Stale, especially toose of the Demo
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in its new, its editorials, its literary ana
mmcellany in' word, In its general readingIt shall nt be'surpassed by any paper circulated in the Blare.
It will be particularly adapted to tne family
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