[71] By lottery.
[72] The house at Poplar Forest had passed out of his possession.
[73] Alluding to the meeting in Richmond.
[74] This handsome tribute to Jefferson, concluding with such a delicate appeal to the gratitude of his countrymen for his relief, was penned by his friend, J. C. Cabell.
[75] On learning the destitute condition in which Mrs. Randolph was left, the Legislature of South Carolina at once presented her with $10,000; and Louisiana, following her example, generously gave the same sum—acts which will ever be gratefully remembered by the descendants of Martha Jefferson.
[76] Thomas Jefferson, Étude Historique sur la Démocratie Américaine; par Cornelis De Witt, p. 380.
[77] Without meaning the least irreverence in the world to the memory of these two great and good men, I can not refrain here from giving the reader the benefit of a good story, which has the advantage over most good stories of being strictly true:
There was living in Albemarle, at the time of Jefferson's death, an enthusiastic democrat, who, admiring him beyond all men, thought that, by dying on the 4th of July, he had raised himself and his party one step higher in the temple of fame. Then came the news that John Adams had died on the same great day. Indignant at the bare suggestion of such a thing, he at first refused to believe it, and, when he could no longer discredit the news, exclaimed, in a passion, that "it was a damned Yankee trick."
[78] See page 419.
[79] See Randall's Jefferson, vol. iii., p. 547.