l8o THOMAS JEFFERSON 



brother-in-law, Dabney Carr, and chat and dream over 

 theories of government and power over men and the 

 ways in which it asserted itself. The first term of his 

 presidency was serene, because England and France 

 were just at that moment at peace, and we were not 

 called upon to take part in their quarrel. As candi- 

 date for a second term he simply swept the country. 

 There was no one in 1804 who dreaded Jefferson. In 

 the election of that year he had 162 electoral votes, 

 while his Federalist opponent, Cotesworth Pinckney, 

 had only 14. Jefferson's influence had become so 

 great because he had absorbed all the strength of his 

 adversary. He had not approved of Hamilton's acts, 

 but he knew how to adopt them and appropriate 

 them, just as Hamilton had adopted and appropriated 

 Madison's theory of the Constitution. Here again 

 if I may say it once more we see, not the French 

 iconoclast, but the English squire. 



Jefferson died on the 4th of July, 1826, at Mon- 

 ticello, just half a century after the promulgation of 

 that Declaration of Independence which he had 

 written, and John Adams had most powerfully de- 

 fended in the Continental Congress. In the bitter 

 political strife between 1795 and 1800 Jefferson and 

 Adams had become enemies ; but in later years the 

 enmity had subsided as old party strife had subsided. 

 Jefferson had carried the day. He had lived long 

 enough to see the fruition of his work, to see the 

 American people in full sympathy with him, and to 

 win back the esteem of the great statesman, John 

 Adams, from whom he had been so long divided. Could 

 there have been a nobler triumph for this strong 

 and sweet nature? On the 4th of July, -1826, at one 



