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Show PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION, UTAH JUIY4, JEFflRmpI HONOR PATRIOTS OF T1CONDEROGA Monument Records Glorious Deed of Revolution . Where Lake George enters Lake Champlain, in New York state, the French In 1756 set up a post which they named Fort Carillon. This became a concentration point for French expeditions under Montcalm and others. In 1758 the fort was attacked by 16,000 British under Abercrombie. Though the French had but 4,000 men they beat off the enemy, causing the latter a loss of 2,000 men. A year later Amherst with 11,000 men took the fort after the French had retired. By the time of the Revolution the fort was generally known by Its Indian name: "Tlconderoga, a corruption of the Iroquois word "cheonderoga, meaning sounding" water. On May 10, 1775, Ethan Allen and 83 Green Mountain Boys captured the fort By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN HE Fourth of July and Thom- w My country, 'tls of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the pllgrlma pride, From every mountain side Let Freedom ring. My native country, thee, Land of the noble free, Thy name I love; I .ovc thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills, My heart with rapture thrllle, Like that above. Let music swell the breeze And ring from all the trees Sweet Freedoms song; Let mortal tongues awake, Let all that breathe partake, Let rocks their silence break, The sound prolong. Our Fathers Cod, to thee, Author of Liberty, To thee we sing; Long may our land be bright With Freedoms holy light; Protect us by thy might, Great God, our King. as Jefferson are naturally In the closely associated minds of all good Americans. Montlcello may now be added for the reason that a movement Is well under way to restore his home at Charlottesville, Va.( and make It a national patriotic shrine. The memory of Jefferson deserves tvell of his country. It was he who In Memory of Frontier Fighters. made the draft of the Declaration of Independence; he was the third Presiand valuable stores. Captain dent of the United States and his other wns in charge of the garservices were many and distinguished. rison of 48 men. He wns asleep when Jefferson was born April 13, 1713, Allen rapped on his door with a sword. at Shadwell, Va. He died at Montlcello "Your errand? demanded the sleepy July 4, 1820 on the fiftieth anniver1 order commander. you to surrensary of the Declaration of Independder, said Allan. Ity what authorence. So Independence day next year the astonished officer. ity?" inquired will be the sesquicentennlal of the By the authority of the Great JeDeclaration and the centennial of Jefhovah nnd the Continental congress," tried to retnke the place, but after fersons death. Allen Is said to have replied. Bene- capturing 300 prisoners and many Jefferson was graduated from Wildict Arnold was n member of the boats, besides releasing 200 When the news spread, public meetAmericans, liam and Mary college in 1702 and was American expedition. ings were called and subscriptions for he had to retire. After the Revoluadmitted to the bar in 1767. He was Jeffersons St. Clair anti 11,000 Continentals tion Fort Tlconderoga became a picuse A were loan started. a member of the Continental congress, or abandoned the fort In 1777 on the ap- turesque ruin, but wns restored to gift from the treasury was sugfind s,Sned the Declaration. In gested, but Jefferson would not hear was Martha Wayles Skelton. The mar of Burgoyne with a superior something like Its original state at proach 1776 he was a member of the of that plan. He said: I have spent riage was happy and gave him om legislaforce. Colonel Brown with 500 men the expense of Mrs. ture of Virginia and a leader in Impor- three times Stephen Iell of as much money, and given son and five daughters. His wife diet New 1909. in York A monument to tant legal reforms. He filled these my whole life to my countrymen, and in 1782. the Continentals, shown above, who other positions: Governor of Virginia, now This little house will be restored come forward In the they nobly KOSCIUSKO STATUE fought In nnd around Tlconderoga was 1779; member of congress, 1783; minonly way they can, to repay me and So will its companion house, a replica unveiled at that historic place. recently ister to France, 1784-- ; secretary of save an old servant from being turned on the other side of the lawn. Th Is the gift of Horace A. Moses. The It state, 1790-- 4 ; vice president, ; like a dog out of doors. first one was later used to accom work, executed by Charles Keck, shows President, 1801-9- . He founded In 1819 The action of the public made the modate guests. The second one wat Liberty the University of Virginia at Char- last triumphant. Iutliflr.der Magadays of his life easier. But the where Jefferson had his law office ant zine. lottesville. debts still hung over the estate. Upon kept the accounts of his estate. TradI Montlcello Is to be restored, so far his death as possible, to the condition in which in. The subscriptions ceased to come tion says that he sometimes used it as lottery was a farce. The a refuge from bis hordes of visitors Obelisk Marks Grave it was left by Jefferson. This task executor disposed of the estate, the and guests. has been undertaken jointly by the land of Sister going as low as three to ten dolHere was Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation lars an Thomas Jefferson few Comparatively are persons acre. The proceeds were not author of the brled Declaration of American and the American Institute of Archiaware that for 100 years a sister of enough to discharge the obligations. Independence, of the Statute of Virtects through its committee on the The executor made Thomas Jefferson, patriot und author up the difference. ginia for Religious Freedom, and the of the Declaration of Independence, preservation of historic monuments The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Father of the University of Virginia, and scenic beauties. Prof. Fiske Foundation Is now engaged In the task slept in an unmarked grave In LivingThis was the inscription, In accord' Kimball, chairman of the architects of freeing the estate of debt. ston county, Kentucky. Recently, unThe once with Jeffersons wish, on the origder committee, hopes not only to restore movement has the the of auspices societies patriotic inal men and obelisk over his grave. Congress, support of the lawns and gardens to Thomas Jef- women of all of Paducah a marble obelisk was faiths. Presi- in 1882, replaced this with one more political ferson's period, but also to return to dent erected nnd dedicated to the memory The original now stands on accepting appointment ornate. the historic mansion much of the fur- as a Coolidge, of Lucy Jefferson Lewis, who died in member of the board of gover- the campus of the University of Misniture. The Foundation was estab- nors, said: But I cannot too Kentucky In 1811. souri at Columbia a site within the earnestly lished on the one hundred The grave, which Is about three and assure you of my conviction that your Louisiana purchase made from France miles from the mouth of Cumberland eightieth anniversary of Jeffersons organization Is performing a useful during Jeffersons administration. birth, April 13, 1923. The following service in river, and the surroundings Thomas Jeffersons fame, based upon encouraging the preservation December the Foundation, by a rustic park and make another making of those shrines and monuments of his actual service to his country. Is a payment of $100,000, took legal title American to Kentucky shrines. addition Until history, which must bring secure. For this reason the promotion to the beautiful colonial mansion, the matter was taken up by the patriotthe to American the inspiration of a Jefferson cult, which apparently public. This statue of Gen. Thaddeus Kosci- ic societies, the last resting estate consisting of 640 acres of land Jefferson was versatile and ingen- seeks to make of him a superman, is place of the Polish patriot who served the distinguished woman was neglectand priceless Jeffersonian relics. usko, ious. He was an amateur architect deprecated by many. the United States In the Revolution- ed and allowed to grow up in briars When retiring from the Presidency, of no mean ability, for one thing. He For Jefferson was not example: the Jefferson expected to be the Hermit made the ary war, is located In Lafayette and underbrush. plans for Montlcello and suauthor of the Declaration of Indeof Montlcello, but this was not to be. Dedication of the monument was square, across Pennsylvania avenue perintended its construction. The plans dependence. The committee of five, apfrom the White House. A continuous stream of visitors came for a memorable event. made the University of Virginia were pointed by congress to prepare the to the place. It was said at the time his. document, instructed him to draft it. that everyone In the United States As a farmer he was in advance of He put into word3 sentiments and of any enterprise sooner or later found his time. He practiced rotation of phrases which were on every mans his way to this extraordinary hercrops, had a fancy for improved live lips, as is shown by the Mecklenburg He himself wrote at one stock and Introduced new fruits and mitage. Declaration of May 20, 1775. The comtime that an ox lasted only a day or vegetables. mittee revised Jeffersons draft; conwhich was one Into use when England The tea tax so. Sometimes he had to prepare passed tht fifty Jeffersons early home the house gress amended its revision of his draft. of the causes ofstamp the American Revo- stamp act tax In 1765. Very few of beds for a night. His visitors ate him of his father at Shadwell, near by The American articulate lution. It is the exceptional property the stamps have survived the people, out of house and home. years. was burned in 1770. He lost all his through congress, was the real author of O. Frederic Ileyermau. Detroit col Evil to Him Who Evil Thinks U on Then, top of the gradual dwin- books and papers; a negro servant of the Declaration of Independence. the translation of the words In the dling of his resources, the prerevolu- saved his violin. The previous year : The Louisiana Again from purchase Inner oval. debt of his wifes tionary estate be- Jefferson had erected a story and a France in 1803 of the between territory came due in England and which afterward the Mississippi and the Rockies was a nearly half half brick building, of his fortune was swept away at one formed the southeastern part of his Momentous Meeting stone In the march of the blow. An indorsement for a friend mansion. So he moved to Montlcello stepping The first session of the Continental American people across the continent. cost him $20,000. Finally he had to at once, bringing his mother, brother But congress was held In Carpenters hall, Jefferson was a secondary factor sell his library and sold it to congress and unmarried sisters. He not Philadelphia, September 5, 1774, with only only. His envoys to France had aufor $23,950. 44 members present; all the colonies built Montlcello, but was his own In- thority to buy the mouth of the In order to avert the blow that was terior decorator and landscape garwere represented except Georgia and for $2,000,000. Napoleon forced North Carolina. Peyton Randolph of pending, Jefferson petitioned the legis- dener. them to agree to buy the Louisiana lature for permission to dispose of his A touch of romance Is supplied at territory for $15,000,000. Virginia was president, and Charles The whole Thomson was secretary. y property at a fair valuation by lottery, Montlcello by a little house deal was unconstitutional. lie said: By this means I can save at the end of the long row of servants was aghast. The East almost Jefferson seceded the Montlcello house and a farm ad- quarters. The upper room opens upon from the Union. But had to congress First Independent Move joining, to end my days In and bury the lawn made by leveling the moun- ratify the purchase, to save the terriThe first convention for forming a my bones. If not, I must sell house, tain Blope. This was Jeffersons bridal tory from Great Britain which was and all here, and carry my family to chamber New Year's day, 1772. Mon- permanently balked in its union among the American colonies designs on was held at Albany in 1754. Benja-jami- n Bedford, where I have not even a log tlcello was only partly built and a this western empire by Andrew Jack-soector hut to put my head into. There was blizzard was blowing. But the room of and American Franklin drew up a plan for a the president January 8, 1815, at New some opposition In the legislature, but had Its own fireplace and was secluded one of the Decisive Battles Orleans, association. bllatelic is The stamp council, but neither th representative of Araer the bill passed. from family and servants. His bride lea and of the world. embossed, is blue In color and c&ma colonies nor England approved U, T Deln-plac- e 9 1797-180- 1 teatatotaltKtaMhit4iuato Jeffersons now-for- Tea Tax Stamp That Led to the Revolution Mis-sisip- pl two-stor- n, |