MR.. JEFFERSON.
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There are some facts connected with the histo-
ry of Mr.. Jefferson, the Apostle of Democracy,
not very generally known to the present genera
tlon AT the time of the elder Adams election
to the Presidency, it was the practice under the
constitution to make the candidate receiving the
highest number of electoral votes the President,
and the next highest Vice President. A false re-
turn in one State and the suppression Of return
IN another, gave MIR. Adams II votes and Mr. JEFF
ferson 68, thus showing that the first federal Pre-
sldent ever elected, succeeded by the same means
which characterised the elevation of the younger
Adams and General Harrison, the only Presidents
from that party we have ever had. They all
reached power by foul means


Mr.. Jefferson was an ardent friend of agricul-
tural pursuits which, with philosophical research,
constituted the pleasures of his life He remained
in the Department of Secretary of State, one year
longer than he wished only at the pressing entrea-
ty of President Washington, and then retired two
years before the expiration of his term Of appoint
ment. His feelings towards the cultivators of the
soil, the great and leading, but neglected interest
OF the nation, is beautifully expressed in his Notes
on virginia, where he pays this high but Just tri-
butte to their worth and merits.


Those who labor in the earth are the chosen
people of God, if ever he had any chosen people,
whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit
for substantial and genuine virtue. 1t is the focus
in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which
might escape from the earth. Corrup-
tion of morals in the mass of the cultivators is
phenomenon of which no age nor nation has fur
nished an example. 1t is the mark set OH those,
who not looking up to toHcauen, to their own soil
and industry, as does the huSbGndnsGn, for their
subsistence depend for it on the casualties and ca
price Of customers Dependence begets subservi-
ence and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue,
and prepares fit tools for the danger of ambition
1t IS the manners and spirit of a people aohich
preserre republic IN OigOr. A degeneracy in
these is a canker which soon eats to the heart Of
its laws and constitution"