Negative Space: American Semicentennial
- 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.
- No Common Spirits: Jefferson and Adams survive
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Adams and Jefferson both dying on the Jubilee was hailed as “a most singular coincidence… A more signal and impressive combination of circumstances is not to be found… Nothing so sublime could have been conceived by human thought… Who does not envy such a death after such a life?”
- 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”.
