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quell a riot somewhere In his county.
The federal judge Is by the general
law a part of the posse of the state
sheriff. Would the judge abandon
major duties to perform lesser ones?
Agalh : The court of Orleans or
Maine commands by subpoenas the
attendance of all the judges of the
supremo court. Would they abandon
their posts as judges, and the inter
ests of millions committed to them,
to serve the purpose of a single in
dividual? The leading principle of
our constitution is the independence
of the legislature, executive and ju
diciary, of each other, and none are
more jealous of this than the judi
ciary. But would the executive be
independent of the judiciary if he
were subject to the commands of the
latter, and to imprisonment for dis
obedience, if the several courts could
bandy him from pillar to post, keep
him constantly trudging from north
to south and east to west, and with
draw him entirely from his consti
tutional duties?"
A striking exemplification of the
force of this argument, says Morse,
would probably soon have been fur
nished had not Burr escaped from a
trial in Ohio by forfeiting his bonds
and fleelmr abroad. For the nresi-
dent would surely have been sum
moned to that trial also, and if ho
had obeyed the summons would have
been kept far from the seat of gov
ernment, in a then very inaccessible
region, at the moment when his
presence was of exceptional impor
tance at the capital. But the deci
sion of Chief Justice Marshall was
disregarded by the president and
nothing more came of it, although
the federalists used his conduct as a
further support of their accusations
of tyranny and injustice.
While no modern court or investi
gating body, save that of impeach
ment, is likely to summon a presi
dent, it is interesting to note that
it has been done, that a great legal
authority defended the right of the
court in that respect and that it
raised the question oT the indepen
dence of the three branches of the
government. It is still a very nice
question for the lawyers. Henry
Barrett Chamberlin in the Chicago
Record-Herald.
Chronology of Thomas Jefferson
Born at Shadwell, Albemarle
county, Va.f April 13, 1743; death
of his father, Peter Jefferson, August
17, 1757; entered William and Mary
College, March, 1760; graduation,
April 25, 1762; entered law office of
George Wythe, April, 1762; admit
ted -to bar, 1767; elected to Virginia
house of Burgesses, March, 1769;
marriage to Martha Wayles Skelton,,
January, 1772; birth of his first
daughter, Martha, September 27,
1772; appointed surveyor of Albe
marle .county, October, 1773; birth
of second daughter, Jane Randolph,
April 3, 1774; elected deputy to con
tinental congress, March, 1775; at
tends continental congress Juno 21,
1775; death of his mother March 31,
1776; appointed on committee to
prepare Declaration of Independence,
June 11, 1776; draft of Declaration
reported, June 28, 1776; elected
commissioner to France, September,
26; 1776; attends Virginia assembly,
October, 1776; appointed on commit
tee to revise Virginia laws, Novem
ber 6, 1776; birth of son, May 28,
1777; death of son, June 14, 1777;
birth of third daughter, Mary, Aug
ust' 1, 1778; elected governor of
Virginia, June 1, 1780; re-elected
governor of Virginia, November,
June 1, 1780; fourth daughter born,
November 3, 1780; resigns gover
norship, June 1, 1781; assembly or
ders investigation of his administra
tion, June 5, 1781; appointed peace
commissioner by continental con
gress, June 14, 1781; appointment
declined, June 30, 1781; atterids Vir
ginia assembly, November 5, 1781;
committee appointed to state charges
against him, November 26, 1781;
elected delegate to congress, Novem
ber 30, 1781; voted thanks of assem
bly, December 12, 1782; daughter,
Lucy Elizabeth, born, May 8, 1782;
death of Mrs. Jefferson, September
6, 1782; appointed peace commis
sioner to Europe, November 12,
1782; appointment withdrawn, April
1, 1783; elected delegate to con
gress, June 6, 1783; elected chair
man of congress, March 12, 1784;
elected minister to France, May 7,
1784; arrived in Paris, August 6,
1784; elected French minister by
congress, March 10, 1785; audience
of French court. May 17, 1785;
death of youngest daughter, Lucy,
November, 1785; presented to
George III at Windsor, March 22,
1786; made an LL. D. by Yale, Oc
tober, 1786; made an LL. D. by
Harvard, June, 1788; prepares
charter for France, June 3, 1789;
nominated to be secretary of state,
September 25, 1789; confirmed by
senate, September 26, 1789; leaves
France, October, 1789; at Mon
ticello, December 24, ' 1789; ac
cepts secretaryship of state Feb
ruary 13. 1790; marriage of
daughter Martha to Thomas Mann
Randolph, February 28, 1790;
writes to Washington of intention
to resign from cabinet, May 23,
1792; reconsiders resignation, Jan
uary, 1793; offered French mission,
February, 1793; resigns secretary
ship of state, December 31, 1793;
offered foreign mission, September,
1794; elected vice president, Novem
ber 4, 1796; elected president of
Philosophical Society, January, 1797;
takes oath of office as vice president,
March March 4, 1797; marriage of
Mary Jefferson to John Waynes
Eppes, October 13, 1797; writes
essay on study of Anglo-Saxon, Octo
ber, 1798; drafts Kentucky resolu
tions, October, 1798; revises Madi
son's Virginia resolutions, November,
1798; plans University of Virginia,
January 18, 1800; prepares parlia
mentary manual, February, 1800;
republican caucus nominates Jeffer
son and Burr, May, 1800; congress
begins to ballot for president, Feb
ruary 11, 1801; elected president,
February 17, 1801; farewell address
to senate, February 28, 1801; in
auguration as president, March 4,
1801; Louisiana treaty signed at
Paris, May 2, 1803; Louisiana
treaty ratified, October 20, 1803;
message on taking possession of
Louisiana, January 18, 1804; re
elected president of United States,
November, 18ff4; elected president
of American Philosophical Society,
January, 1807; signs bill to end
slave trade, March 2, 1807; proposes
to seize the Floridas, September 1,
1807; embargo act signed, December
22, 1807; repeal of embargo signed,
March 1, 1809; retires from presi
dency, March 4, 1809; arrives at
Monticello, March 17, 1809; resigns
presidency of American Philosophi
cal Society, November, 1814; con
gress passes bill to buy library, Jan
uary, 1815; drafts Virginia protest,
December 1825'; executes will, March
16, 1826; declines invitation to
Fourth of July celebration In Wash
ington, June 24, 1826; writes last
letter, June 25, 1826; death, July
4, 1826.
IN DIFFERENT TONGUES
A Danish paper compares "I lovo
you" in many languages. Hero aro
some of them the Danish paper is
our only authority for their correct
ness: The Chinaman says, "Uo
ngai ni;" tho Armenian, "Go slrem
ez hez;" the Arabiait, very shortly,
"Nehabeeck;" tho Egyptian, similar,
"N'achkcb;" tho Turk, "Sisl sevejo
rum," and the Hindoo, "Main tym ko
pijar karyn." But overwhelming is
tho declaration of lovo of an Esqui
mau, who tries to win tho chosen ono
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littlo word, "Univlflgssaerntdlulnalor
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