Negative Space: American Founders
- Another Patriot Gone!
- From The Torch Light and Public Advertiser (Hagerstown, Maryland), Thursday, July 13, 1826, Page 2, from the Morning Chronicle of the same day.
- Beloved while living, and revered now dead
- From the Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, Virginia), Wednesday, July 12, 1826, Page 2, and attributed to “Fenelon”.
- General orders of mourning
- From the Daily National Intelligencer and Washington Express (Washington, District of Columbia), Thursday, July 13, 1826, Page 3.
- Inscrutable are the ways of providence!
- From the Daily National Journal, Washington, District of Columbia, Thursday, July 13, page 3, and attributed to the July 11 Maryland Republican.
- Sources from the American Jubilee
- On July 4, 1826, as the country celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died, sparking a long period of essays, orations, and exclamations about that “singular coincidence”.
