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A great friendship

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison met in 1776.Could it have been any other

year? They worked together starting then to further American Revolution and

later to shape the new scheme of government. From the work sprang a friendship

perhaps incomparable in intimacy and the trustfulness of collaboration and

induration. It lasted 50 years. It included pleasure and utility but over and

above them, there were shared purpose, a common end and an enduring goodness on

both sides. Four and a half months before he died, when he was ailing,

debt-ridden, and worried about his impoverished family, Jefferson wrote to his

longtime friend. His words and Madison's reply remind us that friends are

friends until death. They also remind us that sometimes a friendship has a

bearing on things larger than the friendship itself, for has there ever been a

friendship of greater public consequence than this one?

"The friendship which has subsisted between us now half a century, the

harmony of our po1itical principles and pursuits have been sources of constant

happiness to me through that long period. It's also been a great solace to me to

believe that you're engaged in vindicating to posterity the course that we've

pursued for preserving to them, in all their purity, their blessings of

self-government, which we

had assisted in acquiring for them. If ever the earth has beheld a system of

administration conducted with a single and steadfast eye to the general interest

and happiness of those committed to it, one which, protected by truth, can never

known reproach, it is that to which our lives have been devoted. To myself you

have been a pillar of support throughout life. Take care of me when dead and be

assured that I should leave with you my last affections."

A week later Madison replied-

"You cannot look back to the long period of our private friendship and

political harmony with more affecting recollections than I do. If they are a

source of pleasure to you, what aren’t they not to be to me? We cannot be

deprived of the happy consciousness of the pure devotion to the public good with

Which we discharge the trust committed to us and I indulge a confidence that

sufficient evidence will find in its way to another generation to ensure, after

we are gone, whatever of justice may be withheld whilst we are here. "