New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . by men experienced in the trade. No longerthe farmer made his own hoes and shovels or hadhis negro men work in leather. His produce, con-sumed upon his own farm, or in the nearby mar-ket town, was, ere long, to be carted to the cities, ONY AND AS A STATE 147 first by wagons over the new-made pikes, andthen by the railroads or steamboats. The youngmen were becoming restless and looked out upona horizon wider than the limits of the simple domestic existence no longer satisfiedthe daughters who strove for a high
New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . by men experienced in the trade. No longerthe farmer made his own hoes and shovels or hadhis negro men work in leather. His produce, con-sumed upon his own farm, or in the nearby mar-ket town, was, ere long, to be carted to the cities, ONY AND AS A STATE 147 first by wagons over the new-made pikes, andthen by the railroads or steamboats. The youngmen were becoming restless and looked out upona horizon wider than the limits of the simple domestic existence no longer satisfiedthe daughters who strove for a higher plane of in-tellectual development and wished for the cos-tumes and something of the gayer life at thetowns. Such alterations in the static life of a vastfarming community, the desire for a change, is animportant element in the economic history of aState, and can not be dismissed as a trifle un-worthy of consideration. These ambitions neces-sitated the expenditure of money, increased travel,and brought to minds, unaccustomed to vigorousthinking, new AKHIVAL OF LAFAYETTE IN 1824. CHAPTEE IX A Quarter Century of Politics I WITH the advent to the presidencyof Thomas Jefferson there cameto the executive chair one whosedestiny it was to mould into liv-ing form those floating, half-vague ideas and theories that, by means of thepress and emigration, had reached America as theoutcome of the French Revolution. As a philo-sophical statesman he was, says John T. Morse,Jr., the editor of the American Statesmen, inhis Introduction to Thomas Jefferson, aman of broad views, powerful and original intel-lect, and by his nature sincerely in sympathy withthe most advanced political doctrines of the he was more than this; he was a skillful, far-seeing politician, one who, having organized hisparty and led it to victory, could hold it in the hol-low of his hand, and, unlike his rival, Hamilton,could exact from his followers an allegiance asblind as it was unquestioning. The
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