Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (113 page)

TO
TREAT
HIS
OW
N
SON
Ibid., 126–27. “Nothing less than his good, and the hope of restoring happiness to his family and friends and to yourself particularly could have induced me to the pain of this communication,” Jefferson wrote the senior Bankhead. Ibid., 127.

“
IN
A
STATE
A
PPROACHING
INSANITY
”
Ibid., 127.

COULD
BE
VICIOUS
Crawford,
Twilight at Monticello,
127.

FOR
REFUSING
TO
HAN
D
OVER
THE
KEYS
Bear,
Jefferson at Monticello,
94.

P
ATSY
TRIED
TO
CALM
Ibid.

B
ANKHEAD
GOT
INTO
A
FI
GHT
Crawford,
Twilight at Monticello,
166–67.

“W
ITH
RESPECT
TO
B
ANKHEAD
”
Ibid., 171.

“I
THINK
,
W
ITH
YOU
”
Cappon,
Adams-Jefferson Letters,
467.

“I
STEER
MY
BARK
”
Ibid.

“I
ENJOY
GOOD
H
EALTH
”
Ibid., 484.

“I
DARE
NOT
LOO
K
BEYOND
”
PTJRS,
VII, 217–18.

“S
OME
MEN
LOOK
”
TJ to H. Tompkinson (Samuel Kercheval), July 12, 1816. Extract published at Papers of Thomas Jefferson Retirement Series Digital Archive, http://retirementseries.dataformat.com (accessed 2011).

“T
HE
FACT
IS
”
TJ to Benjamin Waterhouse, March 3, 1818. Extract published
at Papers of Thomas Jefferson Retirement Series Digital Archive, www.monticello.org/familyletters (accessed 2011).

BURNING
OF
THE
ROUGHLY
3,000
BOOKS
JHT,
VI, 172.

6,487
VOLUME
S
Ibid., 176.

“
FOR
ITS
SELECTIO
N
”
Ibid., 177.

I
T
WAS
A
UNIVERSI
TY
Randall,
Jefferson,
III, 462–63, details the organizational foundations.

TO
“
FORM
THE
ST
ATESMEN
”
Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia
Commissioners: The Rockfish Gap Report, August 4, 1818. Extract published
at Papers of Thomas Jefferson Retirement Series Digital Archive, www.monticello.org/familyletters (accessed 2011).

“I
KNOW
NO
”
TJ to William C. Jarvis, September 28, 1820. Extract published at
Papers of Thomas Jefferson Retirement Series Digital Archive, www.monticello.org/familyletters (accessed 2011).

“I
THINK
BY
FAR
”
PTJ,
X, 244–45. In 1814, he told Thomas Cooper: “I have long had under contemplation, and been collecting materials for the plan of a university in Virginia which should comprehend all the sciences useful to us, and none others.” (
PTJRS,
VII, 127.)

“T
HIS
INSTITUTION
WILL
BE
”
TJ to William Roscoe, December 27, 1820. Extract published at Papers of Thomas Jefferson Retirement Series Digital Archive, www.monticello.org/familyletters (accessed 2011).

“F
OR
HERE
WE
ARE
NOT
”
Ibid.

“I
F
OUR
LEGISLATURE
”
TJ to Joseph C. Cabell, January 22, 1820. Extract published at Papers of Thomas Jefferson Retirement Series Digital Archive, www.monticello.org/familyletters (accessed 2011). Jefferson initially hoped the university was the capstone of a broader system of public education, a cause to which he had been devoted for decades. “Were it necessary to give up either the Primaries or the University, I would rather abandon the last,” he said in January 1823. “Because it is safer to have a whole people respectably enlightened, than a few in a high state of science and the many in ignorance. This last is the most dangerous state in which a nation can be. The nations and governments of Europe are so many proofs of it.” Ibid., January 13, 1823.

RODE
TH
ROUGH
“
A
PERFECT
HURR
ICANE
”
Elizabeth Trist to Nicholas P. Trist, March 9, 1819. Published at Papers of Thomas Jefferson Retirement Series Digital Archive, www.monticello.org/familyletters (accessed 2011).

SAID
TO
HAVE
INSTALLED
A
TELESCOP
E
Randall,
Jefferson,
III, 473.

T
HE
STATE
'
S
REL
IGIOUS
WORLD
REACTED
Ibid., 465.

HE
OFFERED
A
BRILL
IANT
PLAN
Ibid., 468–69.

“I
REJOICE
THAT
”
TJ to Benjamin Waterhouse, June 26, 1822. Extract published at Papers of Thomas Jefferson Retirement Series Digital Archive, www.monticello.org/familyletters (accessed 2011).

“
IS
BECOME
THE
FAVORITE
BEVERAGE
”
TJ to Edmund Rogers, February 14, 1824. Extract published at Papers of Thomas Jefferson Retirement Series Digital Archive, www.monticello.org/familyletters (accessed 2011).

“W
ERE
I
TO
BE
THE
FOUNDER
”
TJ to Thomas B. Parker, May 15, 1819. Extract published at Papers of Thomas Jefferson Retirement Series Digital Archive, www.monticello.org/familyletters (accessed 2011).

“
IS
KNOWN
TO
”
Randall,
Jefferson,
III, 440.

A
FORTY
-
SIX
-
PAGE
WORK
The Jefferson Bible
, 27. This Smithsonian edition is an elegant and engaging volume.

T
HE
P
HILOSOPHY
OF
J
ESUS
Randall,
Jefferson,
III, 654.

A
MORE
AMBITIOUS
WORK
The Jefferson Bible
, 26–31.

“T
HE
RELIGION
O
F
J
ESUS
”
TJ to Jared Sparks, November 4, 1820, Thomas Jefferson Papers, LOC.

A
CHURCHGOER
WHO
CARRIED
Meacham,
American Gospel,
278.

“
OF
A
SECT
BY
MYSELF
”
Ibid., 4.

J
EF
FERSON
HOPED
THAT
Johann N. Neem, “A Republican Reformation: Thomas Jefferson's Civil Religion and the Separation of Church from State” in Cogliano, ed.
A Companion to Thomas Jefferson
, 91–109, is a excellent essay on the complexities of Jefferson's thinking on these matters.

“T
HE
TRUTH
IS
THAT
”
Cappon,
Adams-Jefferson Letters,
594.

“M
AY
WE
MEET
TH
ERE
AGAIN
”
Neem, “A Republican Reformation: Thomas Jefferson's Civil Religion and the Separation of Church from State” in Cogliano, ed.
Companion to Thomas Jefferson
, 97.

“
THE
DO
CTRINES
OF
J
ESUS
ARE
SIMPLE
”
Ibid., 103.

“
BOLD
IN
THE
PURSUIT
”
PTJRS,
VII, 191.

“I
T
IS
TOO
LATE
IN
THE
DAY
”
Ford,
Writings,
IX, 412–14.

DONATED
MONEY
TO
THE
A
MERICAN
B
IBLE
S
OCIETY
PTJRS,
VII, 178.

HE
WAS
FELLED
Randall,
Jefferson,
III, 453.

“
THE
BOISTEROUS
SEA
OF
LIBERTY
”
TJ to Richard Rush, October 20, 1820. Extract published at Papers of Thomas Jefferson Retirement Series Digital Archive, www.monticello.org/familyletters (accessed 2011).

FORTY
-
TWO
·
THE KNELL OF THE UNION

“F
ROM
THE
B
ATTLE
OF
B
UNKER
'
S
H
ILL
”
Randall,
Jefferson,
III, 454. .

“I
HAVE
MUCH
CONFIDENCE
”
TJ to François Barbé de Marbois, June 14, 1817. Extract published at Papers of Thomas Jefferson Retirement Series Digital Archive, www.monticello.org/familyletters (accessed 2011).

“
L
IKE
A
FIRE
BELL
IN
T
HE
NIGHT
”
TJ to John Holmes, April 22, 1820. Extract published at Papers of Thomas Jefferson Retirement Series Digital Archive, www.monticello.org/familyletters (accessed 2011).

“T
HE
CESSIO
N
OF
THAT
KIND
”
Randall,
Jefferson,
III, 456.

“T
H
E
BANKS
,
BANKRUPT
LAW
”
Cappon,
Adams-Jefferson Letters,
548–49.

T
HE
RESOLUTION
WAS
A
COMPROMISE
Howe,
Wrought,
147–60. See also Wilentz,
Rise of American Democracy,
231–40, and Robert Pierce Forbes,
The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath: Slavery and the Meaning of America
(Chapel Hill, N.C., 2007).

“I
T
IS
NOT
A
MORAL
QUESTION
”
TJ to the Marquis de Lafayette, December 26, 1820. Extract published at Papers of Thomas Jefferson Retirement Series Digital Archive, http://retirementseries.dataformat.com (accessed 2011).

“T
HE
LEADERS
OF
F
EDERALIS
M
”
Randall,
Jefferson,
III, 457. “They are taking advantage of the virtuous feelings of the people to effect a division of parties by a geographical line; they expect that this will insure them, on local principles, the majority they could never obtain on principles of Federalism,” said Jefferson. Ibid.

“
A
HIDEOUS
BLOT
”
TJ to William Short, September 8, 1823. Extract published at Papers of Thomas Jefferson Retirement Series Digital Archive, http://retirementseries.dataformat.com (accessed 2011).

“T
HIS
,
MY
DEAR
SIR
”
PTJRS,
VII, 604. The plan had been proposed by Edward Coles.