Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 305, 3 November 1914 — Page 8

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1HE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, NOV. 3, 1914

ILIFF CONTINUES REVIEW OF MRS. MADISON'S LIFE

BY EDGAR ILIFF. General Andrew Jackson had a great dislike for both Madison and Jefferson. He looked upon them as cowardly men, afraid to meet their enemies face to face, afraid to conduct their great offices with independence and fortitude. He said their habit was to smilo in your face and do something mean behind your back. Jefferson had put forth an idea that diHRUKted Jackson. When the country was demanding coast defenses and a navy, Jefferson calculated that a dozen gunboats could be built for a hundred thousand dollars, or about $8,000 apiece, and that they should be kept

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when the enemy appeared near tho shore, they could be carted down to he water and manned by the neighbors. Jefferson seemed to have forKotten that the English ships were tilled with the veterans and heroes of Trafalgar, the Nile and Copenhagen. Professors Out of Place. "I have," paid Jackson, "the highest regard for professors and school teachers in their own sphere, but when they come out of their shells and talk politics and government, they always remind me of old maids who lecture on how to raise children." Dolly Madison was a Quakeress by birth, and when she sat for her portrait to Peale, the artist, she wore her Quaker cap. No more sweet and lovely character can be found in all American history. A widow at 22, she was sought in marriage by the first man in tho land. James Madison, who was twice her age, induced Aaron Burr to present him to the charming young widow. When they met "she was dressed in a mulberry satin gown, and a silk tulle handkerchief on her neck, and on her head an exquisitely dainty little cap from which an uncropped curl would escape." Mr. Madison was more successful iu the court of love than in foreign courts. He waB more lover than statesman. He was smitten, and through the help of Martha Washington's match-making, he gained her for a wife. George "Washington pronounced the "Bless you, my children," Thomas Jefferson threw some Carolina rice, the usual old shoes were hurled at the happy couple, and everything went as merry as a marriage bell. Madison Recluse. But alas for human affinities! Mrs. Madison was much happier in the social life of the capital than her husband could possibly be. James Madison was a student and a recluse. In early life he went to a rash and perilous excess in study. He fell a victim lo the false idea than an accumula of knowledge makes up for all other nhortcomings. He nearly killed himse with study and impaired his health for life. He was the very best of American citizens and of value to his country, but he was never quite the man he might have been had he Btudied less and played and romped more when a youth. Jefferson said of him that he lacked the power to stand tiirm against vehement opposition lie, had a certain lack of staunch, indomitable manhood. There is a coarse grain of falsehood in the time-honored phrases that knowledge Is power" and "the pen is mightier than the sword," for as the world appears to the man in the street, ignorance rides and knowledge walks: ignorance lives in palaces and knowledge sputters out its brief candle in the attic; ignorance hires and

knowledge hires out; ignorance has the money and buys, while penniless knowledge sell itself for bread. As to the pen being mightier than the sword, its refutation is seen today in the European sword dripping with blood. Shunned Society. "'Madison hated and shunned society. He would run away from dinners and parties. Social functions are the thief nf time to bookish men. All time not devoted to study is wo much lost time. They are like the saints who pray without ceasing and let others do the work. They live in the abstract and forget that, there can be no history, no books, no literature, no philosophy, no dramas or poems, without the deeds, the acts, the loves, the hates, the passions, the ambitions, the wars, the adventures, the conflicts and struggles of men and women first. Books are hut pictures, films, reflex visualization of the real. Daredevils defy the ice of the Arctics, face the hot blasts of the desert, and bravo the dangers of land and sea and air. Wo sit in the cozy-corner and read about it and become "intellectual." Warp and bias re too often the fruits of education. In its truest sense, education is emptying the mind of traditional misconceptions instead of filling it with ancient rubhish. A strong mind with no education is better than a weak one overburdened with antique cobweb learning. Two of America's greatest men, Abraham Lincoln and Benito Juarez, had scarcely any education at all. Dolly Madison loved sparkling wit, good cheer, beaux esprites. She alalways reigned supreme as "Queen of

Hearts," a title given her by the grave George Washington. She loved flowers and decorated dinner tables, laughter and jest, and "dressed consistent with Jeffersonian simplicity." But where economy and simplicity became penny wise and pound foolish and degenerate into the school of tight-wads and short-skates, women of heart and soul and mind shrivel and shink like flowers in October frosts. Mr. Madison Cheerful. Washington Irving visited the Madison s and wrote: "Mrs. Madison has a smile and a good word for everybody, but as to Jemmy Madison ah, poor Jemmy! ho is but a withered little apple John." The English officer commanding the troops who captured and burnt Washington City wrote to "my beautiful

Lady Presidentess Madison" that he proposed to salute her at the door of her private room, set fire to the white house, "and carry her off in person and display her charms in London." This coarse threat, for which he should have been court martialed and degraded from the ranks, did not terrify her, nor was he ever punished for his brutal insult. In those days the average Englishman had less consideration for an American than we have for the savages of the Philippines. "I am going to stay here," Dolly Madison wrote to absent friends. "I

1 am ready for the enemy. I am deter

mined not to go myself until I know that Mr. Madison is safe. My friends and all my acquaintances are gone, even Colonel C and his hundred men who were left to guard me." Call for Flight. The flight of the high officials of the United States, including the president and Secretary of War Armstrong, called forth the following from a New York newspaper: ' "Fly Monroe, fly! Run, Armstrong, run! were the last words of Madison." Dolly Madison did all she could do to save the state papers and preserve her dignity as the first lady of the land, and then escaped in disguise and found

"poor Jemmy" in great alarm for ths safety of himself. In these trying times, Jefferson had unalterably opposed coast defenses, fortifications of any kind, a navy or an army. In his dislike for the business interests of the country he wrote to Count Nogendorf: "You ask me what I think of the expediency of encouraging our states to be commercial. I should wish them to practice neither commerce nor navigation, but to stand with respect to Europe precisely on the same footing as with China. We should thus avoid wars and all of citizens would be farmers." The commercial chaos and distress became so great in the United States that Jefferson faced financial ruin and asked the legislature of Virginia for permission to dispose of his property by lottery. Madison became so involved because of his failure to borrow money from the United States bank that he had to sacrifice his lands and stocks. Monroe lost everything and died utterly impoverished at the house of his son-in-law. Mrs. Madison, the dear, brave Dolly, found that republics are indeed ungrateful. In her last days she was in a state of absolute poverty, suffering

sometimes for the necessaries of life. Congress had quarrelled over the purchase of the "Madison, papers" and finally bought them when she no longer needed aid. Daniel Webster sometimes sent a servant to her lodgings with a basket of provisions. These men, Jefferson and Madison, were both shy; they shrank, from publicity; they were not combative; they were not orators; they couldn't control a public assembly or handle a mass meeting; nature had not fitted them

for an executive office; they were not politicians but students; not statesmen but scholastic. But they stood for freedom of religious worship, for intellectual liberty. They admitted of no authority over the results of a free mind. Liberty was their watchword. They were the apostles of the supremacy and integrity of the mind and in this doman they were great men.

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