Life and Letters of Thomas Jefferson

the following would be to my manes the most gratifying: on the grave a plain die or cube of three feet without any mouldings surmounted by an obelisk of six feet height, each of a single stone; on the faces of the obelisk the following inscriptions and not a word more:

Here was buried

Thomas Jefferson,

Author of the Declaration of American Independence,
Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom,

And Father of the University of Virginia;

because by these as testimonials that I have lived I wish most to be remembered."

The obelisk, he added, was "to be of the coarse stone of which my columns are made, that no one might be tempted hereafter to destroy it for the value of the materials." His bust by Cerrachi "might be given to the University, if they would place it in the dome room of the Rotunda." Jefferson was buried in the graveyard of Monticello between his wife and his daughter Maria Eppes. Near by was afterwards laid his eldest daughter Martha. The graves were easily seen through a high iron grating, that there might be no excuse for forcing open the gates which closed the entrance to the graveyard. But the gates were broken open again and again by the vulgar curiosity of the unconscionable sight-seeker. In 1871, when Sarah Randolph wrote, the granite obelisk had been chipped away until it stood a misshapen column. A replica has since been erected in its place, and ere long Monticello, which was ruthlessly sold up and alienated from the family a few months after Jefferson's death to satisfy his debts, will be reclaimed for the nation and tastefully restored as a Memorial of its greatest republican and democratic

statesman.

Adams, Abigail, 215.

INDEX

Adams, Henry, his history quoted,
377.

Adams, John, 91, 118, 124, 126–7, 215,
269, 275-6, 380-1; defeated for Pres-
ident, 371, 373; elected President,
336 sqq.; his Cabinet, 339-40, 370
sqq.; Jefferson's correspondence
with, 455 sqq.; re-elected Vice-
President, 289; Vice-President, 239;
warlike measures of, 343 sqq.
Adams, John Quincy, 276, 384, 443,
516, 554, 562; elected President,
565.

Adams, Samuel, 39, 522.
Aland, Fortescue, 35.

Albemarle County, 8, 15, 46, 545.
Alderman, Dr. Edwin, 550.
Alexander, Czar of Russia, 425.
Alfred the Great, 36.

Bacon, Edmund, 28.
Baines, Edward, 436.
Bank money, 473-4.
Bank of the U. S. A., 270, 304 sqq., 475.
Barbary pirates, 387.
Baring, Sir Francis, 437.
Bastille, storming of, 231.
| Bathurst, Lord, 434.
Beer, 487.

Bentham, Jeremy, 56.
Benton, Senator, 254.
Berlin decrees, 432, 437.
Bimetallic ratio, 203, 255.
Blackstone, 35, 569.
Blockade, 433 sqq., 438.
Blue Ridge, 8, 184.

American Independence, 50th Anni- Bolingbroke, 27, 529-30.

Alien Act, 348 sqq.

Bryan, John Stewart, 179.
Buffon, Count de, 182, 187 sqq.
Burk, John, Historian of Virginia,

27, 179.

Burke, Edmund, 55, 99, 101, 273 sqq.
Burns, Robert, 82.

Chesapeake Affair, 421 sqq.
Chess, 262.
Cicero, 507.
Christianity, 401.

Christianity and Common Law, 35 sqq.
Cincinnati, 323.

Burr, Aaron, 371 sqq., 407 note, 419 sqq. Clarendon, 61.

Constitution, Construction of, 392-3.
Construction strict, 304.

Continental Congress, 79, 90.

Ceremony abolished by Jefferson, 384- Constructionists, loose, 516.

5-6.

Champlain, Lake, 258, 261.

Chandler, J. A. C., 24.

Channing, Edward, 79.

Charles the First, 58.
Charleston, 314.

Charleston captured by British, 145.
Charlottesville, 9, 545-6.

Charlottesville surprised by Tarleton,

168.

Chatham, Lord, 86, 89.

Convention at Philadelphia, 236 sqq.

Convention, Madison's notes on, 358.
Cook, Captain, 190.

Coolidge, Ellen, 560.

Coolidge, Joseph, 121.

Cooper, Thomas, 478, 549.

Cornwallis, General, 144 sqq., 161
sqq., 164 sqq.

Cornwallis, his plunderings, 170.
Correa, 527-8.

Corruption, 196.

Cotton, American, 256.
Cotton gin, invention of, 525.
Cotton manufactures, 195.
Cowpens, Battle of, 158.

Credit, American, in Amsterdam, 212.
Credit of United States, 290 sqq.
Cuba, acquisition of, 540.
Curtius, 326.

Customs, revenue of U. S. A., 430.

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Dallas, Secretary of Treasury, 475.
Danton, 280.

Davila, Discourses on, 276, 457.
Dearborn, Henry, 383.
Debt, American discharge of, 399;
American, to France, 295 sqq., 300;
to Holland, 300; certificates bought
by speculators, 292; of U. S. A.,
290 sqq.; American, 211 sqq., 217;
American, to British merchants, 300
sqq.; repudiation of, 302.
Debt to French officers, 212.
Decimal system, 199, 463.
Declaration of Independence, moved
by delegates of Virginia, 117-8.
Degeneracy, American, 189.
De Grasse, Admiral, 148, 172.
Democracy, Jacksonian, 529; Jeffer-
sonian, 511, 529.

Democracy, need for education, 196.
Democratic Societies, 329.
Denison, John Evelyn, 566 sqq.
Dialect dictionary, 567.

Dickinson, John, 67, 92, 117.

Diet, Jefferson's, 521.

Doddridge, 15.

Embargo policy, 322.
Embargo, repeal of, 442-3.
England, friendship with, 493.
English dialects, 566 sqq.
Eppes, Francis, 91, 251 note.
Entanglements with Europe, 537.
Eppes, J. W., 251 note, 467.
Eppington, 251 note.
Equality of Opportunity, 196.
Era of Good Feeling, 514.
Essex case, 409.

Essex Junto, 442, 563.
Excise, 323.

Expedition of Lewis and Clark, 397 sqq.
Exports of U. S. A., 429–30.

Fauquier, Governor of Virginia, 26 sqq.
Federalist Party, origin of, 265.
Federalist, the, 238.
Female education, 518.
Fenno, John, 277, 286.

Filmer's Patriarcha, 508.

Fiscal policy, 256.

Florida, 408, 412-13.

Flourens, his experiments, 561-2.

Dollar currency, chosen by Jefferson, Fourth of July, 572–3.

200 sqq.

Fox, Charles James, 408, 415.
France, alliance with, 143.

Franklin, Benjamin, 57, 93, 125, 143,

Dominion, the Old, 6, 8.

Drake, 1.

Duane, 458-9.

Dunglison, Dr., 550, 572.

188-9, 207, 253, 333.
Frederic the Great, 207.

Dunmore, Lord, Governor, 85-6, 90, Freedom of opinion, 140.

96, 128.

[Freedom of the Press, 406.

Gage, General, 86.

Galileo, 137.

280;

Gallatin, Albert, 294, 328-9, 383, 409,
418, 454.

Gardens, English, 218.
Gassendi, 384.

Gates, General, 143, 145-6, 152.
Gazette, National, 277.

Gazette, United States, 277, 281, 284.
Genêt, Edmond, 299, 311, 313 sqq.
George, Lake, 258, 261-2.
George the Third, 33, 42, 56, 57 sqq.,
69 sqq., 98, 114, 128–9, 144, 215, 274.
Georges, the Four, toasted, 315.
Georgia, war in, 145.

German mercenaries, 102.

Gerry, Elbridge, 44, 344-5, 358 sqq.
Ghent, Peace of, 484.

Giles, W. B., 320, 325.
Girardin, Louis Hue, 26, 179.
Gold debts paid in paper, 302.

Goochland, 8.

Hamilton, Alexander, 55, 146, 238, 240
sqq., 248, 264 sqq., 323, 339, 371 sqq.,
498, 557, 562.
Hamilton, Alexander, funds public
debt, 290 sqq.; his finance, 328;
his military ambitions, 361, 364.
Hamilton, Alexander, life of, 175, 535.
Hamilton, governor of Detroit, 149–50.
Hamiltonians, 344.

Hammond, George, 301 sqq.
Hampden, John, 247.

Harrington, James, 80; his Oceana,

509.
Harvard, 531, 550.
Hayti, 359, 392.

Henry, Patrick, 20, 33 sqq., 41 sqq.,
48, 66, 83, 84, 85, 136, 141, 174, 366.
Henry, Patrick, elected governor of
Virginia, 110 sqq., 237, 243.
Henry, Patrick, Wirt's life of, 517.
Hereditary chambers, 190.
Hereditary principle, 245.
Hollis, Thomas, 509.
Holy Alliance, 538.
Homer, 506.
Horses, wild, 353.
Houdin, 489.

Howe, General, 128.
Hull, General, 454, 465.
Hume's History of England, 556.

Government, cost of, 197.

Granger, Gideon, 383.

Greek literature, 521-2.

Greek, pronunciation of, 520.

161 sqq.; life of, 534.

Grenville, George, 39.