Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . aration of Indeiicnd-ence, and they constituted the sub-com-mittee appointed by the other members to versary of American liberty—in the verymidst of the festivities which commem-orated the n
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . aration of Indeiicnd-ence, and they constituted the sub-com-mittee appointed by the other members to versary of American liberty—in the verymidst of the festivities which commem-orated the nations half-centennial jubilee !Wherever the tidings of their deceasecould be flashed, on that eventful day, thevoices of festivity and mirth were changedto those of wonder and mourning. Jeffersons imperishable renown consistsin his having penned the Declaration ofIndependence, rather than in the fact ofhis having filled the highest offices, stateand national, culminating with that ofpresident of the republic. On the other hand, to have been fore-most among those who foresaw and brokethe way for the birth of a new nation; tohave been the mover of numerous decisiveacts, the undoubted precursors of the greatconsummation; to have been among themany and towering spirits then engagedin defying the mightiest throne in Chris-tendom, by acknowledgment unsurpassedin zeal, and unequaled in ability; to have. llli: .li:ili;ltSON .MANSION AT MOMl make the draft. Jefferson was the authorof that noblest production of statesman-ship ; Adams was its chief parliamentaryexpositor and triumphant advocate in the assembly of the mighty. They left theirseats in congress, being called to otherpublic employment, at periods not remotefrom each other. Both became j)ublicministers abroad, both vice-presidents, andboth presidents. All these remarkablej)arallels and coincidences were at last mostsingularly crowned ancl coMii>leted : Theydied together—and they died on the unni- been exclusively associ
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