Negative Space: John Adams
- 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”.
- A day most signally marked…
- From the the August 8, 1826, Richmond Enquirer of Richmond, Virginia. “A day most signally marked… of events which will be remembered while liberty has a votary…”
- General orders of mourning
- From the Daily National Intelligencer and Washington Express (Washington, District of Columbia), Thursday, July 13, 1826, Page 3.
- Hear, O Heavens! Give Ear, O Earth!
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From the July 18, 1926, Vermont Patriot, Montpelier, Vermont, pages 2 and 3, including a wide selection of news items from other newspapers.
- 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.
- Let our dissensions be buried in their graves
- From the Pittsfield Sun of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, August 31, 1826, a eulogy to Adams and Jefferson by judge of the New York Supreme Court William Alexander Duer (1780-1858), delivered on July 31 and reprinted from the Albany Argus of August 15.
- The Lights of Truth and Unerring Experience
- From the August 25 and September 8, 1826 Kentucky Gazette, a speech by William T. Barry (1784-1835), delivered on August 15 in Lexington, on the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (July 4) and Isaac Shelby, the first (and fifth) Governor of Kentucky under the new Constitution (July 18).
- Lines on the Deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams
- For the Richmond, Virginia Constitutional Whig of July 14, 1826; By A Lady of Richmond, E.L.S.
- 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”.
- The Venerable Carroll
- The Daily National Journal, Washington, District of Columbia, Saturday, July 15, 1826, page 3.
- When, in the Course of Providence
- From the Richmond Enquirer of Richmond, Virginia, August 1, 1826, page 3.
