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Thomas Jefferson - A Character Sketch
Washington and Jefferson
by Ellis, Edward S. (A.M.)
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Dr. James Schouler says: "That Jefferson did not enter into the rhapsodies
of his times which magnified the first President into a demigod infallible,
is very certain; and that, sincerely or insincerely, he had written from his
distant retreat to private friends in Congress with less veneration for
Washington's good judgment on some points of policy than for his personal
virtues and honesty, is susceptible of proof by more positive testimony than
the once celebrated Mazzei letter. Yet we should do Jefferson the justice
to add that political differences of opinion never blinded him to the
transcendent qualities of Washington's character, which he had known long
and intimately enough to appreciate with its possible limitations, which is
the best appreciation of all. Of many contemporary tributes which were
evoked at the close of the last century by that great hero's death, none
bears reading so well in the light of another hundred years as that which
Jefferson penned modestly in his private correspondence."
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