The lives and graves of our presidents . nticello,once so brilliant and hospitable, is now in desolate and ruinousdecay. Thriving trees embower it. Living vegetables and ani-mals are making inroads upon it. Ruin is seeking it for its arrested, the decay Avill before long become complete. Itis a brick structure which the tooth of time is gnawing ateffectually. There is much that is saddening at Monticello, the contrastbetween the past and the present is so great. It was once somuch to the country and the world; now it is so little save inmemory. If Monticello, like Mount Vernon, were
The lives and graves of our presidents . nticello,once so brilliant and hospitable, is now in desolate and ruinousdecay. Thriving trees embower it. Living vegetables and ani-mals are making inroads upon it. Ruin is seeking it for its arrested, the decay Avill before long become complete. Itis a brick structure which the tooth of time is gnawing ateffectually. There is much that is saddening at Monticello, the contrastbetween the past and the present is so great. It was once somuch to the country and the world; now it is so little save inmemory. If Monticello, like Mount Vernon, were in the hands ofsome patriotic national association, or were owned by thenational government, it could be so cared for as to invite vis-itors from every part of the world, and would still speak to theworld of the great principles for which Jefferson lived. Jeffer-son dead would be as real and powerful as Jefferson living. Itis more than likely that something of this kind will be realizedby and by, and Monticello will rise from the TI 1 1 m
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