exhausted to be rallied.' To a member of his family who remarked that he was better, and that the Doctor thought so, he listened with evident impatience, and said, 'Do not imagine for a moment that I feel the smallest solicitude as to the result.' He then calmly gave directions for his funeral, forbidding all pomp and parade; being answered by a hope that it would be long ere the occasion would require their observance, he asked, with a smile, 'Do you think I fear to die?' A few moments after, he called his family and friends around his bedside, and uttered distinctly the following sentence: 'I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God, my daughter to my country.' These were the last words he articulated his last solemn declaration to the world—his dying will and testament, bequeathing his most precious gifts, to his God and his country. All that was heard from him afterwards, was a hurried repetition, in indistinct and scarcely audible accents, of his favorite ejaculation, Nunc Dimittas, Domine — Nunc Dimittas, Domine. He sunk away imperceptibly, and breathed his last, without a struggle or a murmur, at ten minutes before one o'clock, on the great JUBILEE of American liberty · the day, and hour too, on which the Declaration of Independence received its final reading, and the day, and hour, on which he prayed to Heaven that he might be permitted to depart.

Was not the hand of God most affectingly displayed in this event, as if to add another to the multiplied proofs of His special superintendence over this happy country? On the anniversary of a day the most distinguished in the annals of mankind - - on its fiftieth anniversary, and in merciful fulfilment of his last earthly prayer, he closed his eyes. Few of the miracles record

ed in the sacred writings, are more conspicuous or imposing. Mark again—the extraordinary protraction of physical existence manifested in the last moments of Mr

Jefferson, as if to render the coincidence more strikingly and beautifully complete. At eight o'clock, P. M. on the 3d of July, his physician pronounced that he might be expected to die in any quarter of an hour from that time. Yet he lived seventeen hours longer, without any evident pain or suffering, or restlessness; with sensibility, consciousness, and intelligence for much more than twelve hours of the time; and at last gradually subsided into inanimation like a lamp which had shone throughout a long dark night, spreading far and wide its beneficent rays, yet still lingering to usher in the broad day light upon mankind.

Never was this nation more profoundly impressed than by the occurrence of this event. Instead of being viewed in the light of a calamity, there was not a heart which did not feel a mournful pleasure at the miraculous beauty of such a death. All business was suspended, as the intelligence spread through the country; the minute guns were fired, the bells sounded a funeral note, the flags of the shipping fell half mast, and every demonstration of profound feeling was displayed. But five hours afterward, on the same day, died John Adams. In the same mighty spirit, also, with the last words, Independence forever,' and 'Jefferson survives.' The extraordinary coincidence in the death of these great men, is without a parallel in the records of history. Were any doubts harbored of their sincere devotion to their country while living, they must surely be dissipated forever by the time and manner of their death. One, the author of the Declaration of Independence, the other its great champion and defender on the floor of Congress, and both the only two survivors of the committee appointed to prepare that instrument, another and powerful confirmation was thus added, that' Heaven itself mingled visibly in the jubilee celebration of American Liberty, hallowing anew the day by a double apoth

eosis.' They were great and glorious in their lives; in death they were not divided. It was indeed a fit occasion for the deepest public feeling. Happening singly, each of these events was felt as supernatural; happening together, the astonishment which they occasioned, was general and almost overwhelming.

In a private memorandum, found among some other obituary papers of Mr Jefferson, was the suggestion that in case any memorial of him should ever be thought of, a small granite obelisk should be erected, with the following inscription:

HERE LIES BURIED,

THOMAS JEFFERSON,

AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE,

OF THE STATUTES OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.

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