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The Daily Dispatch: November 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], The sale of Monticello. (search)
s that paper an account of the sale of Monticello; the former residence of Thomas Jefferson. It was sold under the confiscation act. The letter says a large crowd waas the marshal would provide privately for their support. "The bust of Mr. Jefferson, which stood in the hall on a fluted Corinthian pedestal, brought only $50,taire was sold, but what it brought I do not know; it was said to have been Mr. Jefferson's. --The amount of sales was $350,000. "In one of the rooms in the upper story was the body of a chair or one-horse sulkey which Mr. Jefferson used to ride in from Monticello to Philadelphia when he was Secretary of State. Standing ine of land of two hundred acres was pointed out to me by Mr. Randolph, which Mr. Jefferson purchased for a bowl of punch, and several hundred acres for five cents. read on each side of the front entrance to the hall; pieces of the bust of Mr. Jefferson were chipped off; chairs, tables, mirrors, vases broken and destroyed, and
The Daily Dispatch: February 1, 1865., [Electronic resource], Sale of Autographs. (search)
Sale of Autographs. --At an antiquarian sale in Washington city, an autograph letter of Lafayette to Mr. Madison was sold for $16.50; the signature of Napoleon Bonaparte brought $8.50; a letter from William Henry Harrison brought $5.50; John Hancock's autograph, $6.50; Von Humboldt's autograph, $4.75; a letter from Andrew Jackson, $6; a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, $9; Thomas Jefferson's address to the Tammany Society, $5.50; the autograph of Toussaint L'Ouverture, $5.50. Sale of Autographs. --At an antiquarian sale in Washington city, an autograph letter of Lafayette to Mr. Madison was sold for $16.50; the signature of Napoleon Bonaparte brought $8.50; a letter from William Henry Harrison brought $5.50; John Hancock's autograph, $6.50; Von Humboldt's autograph, $4.75; a letter from Andrew Jackson, $6; a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, $9; Thomas Jefferson's address to the Tammany Society, $5.50; the autograph of Toussaint L'Ouverture, $5.50.
The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
There was a time when nearly all the intelligence of Virginia was opposed to slavery. Jefferson has left his opinion upon record; Washington provided in his will for the emancipation of his slaves, and St. George Tucker (the elder) devoted to the subject sixty pages of his notes upon Blackstone, in which he decidedly condemned it. Indeed, so general was the feeling that it may be said all Virginia, during the first thirty years after the Revolution, was anti-slavery. The only stumbling block in the way of emancipation seems to have been the difficulty of disposing of the emancipated negroes. Jefferson himself thought the two races ought not to live together. That great, but eccentric genius, John Randolph of Roanoke, though one among the largest slaveholders in the State, and though wont to resent any interference In 1803 he was chairman of a committee upon a memorial from Indiana to dispense, temporarily, with the ordinance of 1787 so far as it was applicable to that St
The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
ibility to describe all and more than the eyes have seen. Charlottesville, again, has in its neighborhood, only three miles distant, Monticello, the seat of Thomas Jefferson, and his tomb, which the pilgrims of liberty will visit for ages with the devotion of Mahometans to Mecca. On the other hand, Staunton, if she choose, can recall the fact, not generally known, that Washington looked to that region as the citadel of the Independence about which Jefferson only wrote, and that he declared, "Give me but a standard, and let we plant it on the mountains of West Augusta, and I will yet rescue the cause of my country from its enemies." We are not certain thatesville, with one hundred and eighty cavalry of his legion and seventy mounted infantry, with directions to surprise the General Assembly and seize the person of Jefferson, then the Governor of the Commonwealth. Charlottesville may exult that she did not permit the Legislature to be surprised, but that the Governor and all the mem
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