. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . pening of each Con-gress, to read his Message in person, as had hitherto been thecustom, he sent it in writing. He would have no especiallevees nor invited guests, but was accessible to any one at anyhour. He was so unwilling to have his birthday celebratedthat he concealed it as much as possible. These ways werecriticised as those of a demagogue. The President was re-proached with a desire to conciliate the mob, or, as it was thensometimes called — as, for instance, in Mrs. Adamss letters—
. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . pening of each Con-gress, to read his Message in person, as had hitherto been thecustom, he sent it in writing. He would have no especiallevees nor invited guests, but was accessible to any one at anyhour. He was so unwilling to have his birthday celebratedthat he concealed it as much as possible. These ways werecriticised as those of a demagogue. The President was re-proached with a desire to conciliate the mob, or, as it was thensometimes called — as, for instance, in Mrs. Adamss letters—the mobility. His reason for sending a Message, accordingto that stout Federalist William Sullivan, was because a Speechcould be answered, and a Message could not; although Sullivanasserts, in almost the next sentence, that Congress was utterlysubservient to him, and it could therefore have made no differ-ence. The discontinuance of formal levees is called by Sulli-van the abolition of all official dignity, and descending to thelowest level. Dennies Portfolio, the best newspaper that had yet ap-. THOMAS JEFFERSON.[Engraved by G. Kruell, from the painting by Gilbert Stuart, owned by T. Jefferson Coolidge, Esq., Boston.] THE EARLY AMERICAN PRESIDENTS. 347 peared in the United States, contained, August 18, 1S04, amongeulogies of the poems of Burns, and burlesques upon the earlylyrical effusions of Wordsworth, an imaginary diary, supposedto have been picked up near the White House in the previousFebruary. In this the President was made to say: Orderedmy horse—never ride with a servant—looks proud—mob doesntlike it — must gull the boobies. Adams wouldnt bend so—would rather lose his place—knew nothing of the world. Inanother place he describes himself as meeting a countrymanwho took him for a Virginia overseer, and who talked countryman asked him to name one man of real characterin the Democratic party. The President, after some stammer-ing, suggested Je
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