. The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks. THOMAS JEFFEKSON. 357 THOMAS JEFFERSON. The third President was born in Virginia, April 2nd, 1743,^fid was the greatest statesman that ever filled the office ofChief Executive of the United States. Honest and con-scientious in action and belief, Jefferson was an ideal Dem-ocrat. Brilliantly educated; by birth a Patrician, he yet es-poused the cause of the people and was untiring in his ad-vocacy and defense of their rights. Well has he been calledthe father of the Democracy, for like Minerva from themigh
. The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks. THOMAS JEFFEKSON. 357 THOMAS JEFFERSON. The third President was born in Virginia, April 2nd, 1743,^fid was the greatest statesman that ever filled the office ofChief Executive of the United States. Honest and con-scientious in action and belief, Jefferson was an ideal Dem-ocrat. Brilliantly educated; by birth a Patrician, he yet es-poused the cause of the people and was untiring in his ad-vocacy and defense of their rights. Well has he been calledthe father of the Democracy, for like Minerva from themighty brain of Jove, Democracy sprang fully armed fromthe grand mind of Jefferson. In the battle against Federalism, Jefferson was ever theleader. He planned the cani[)aigns, dictated the policy,wrote the phillipics and led the hosts pf the Democracyagainst aristocratic Federalism. Next to the Declaration ofIndependence—our Magna Charta—comes his inaugural ad-dress as an ideal state paper. It everywhere glows withhonesty, patriotism, grandeur, nobility and the advocacyof the rights of
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