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$1.00 l 52 PAGES TOLEDO, OHIO, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 2014 UPDATES AT toledoBlade.com FINAL Jefferson’s letter offers rare 288,000 NEW JOBS IN JUNE glimpse into his personal life Hiring surge Founding Father’s document at Toledo library Thomas Jefferson pushes Dow By FEDERICO MARTINEZ BLADE STAFF WRITER THOMAS JEFFERSON WRITES ON POLITICS It had been nearly 24 years since the signing of AND THE CONSTITUTION over 17,000 America’s Declaration of Independence. But by Below is a excerpt from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson to his 1800, Thomas Jefferson, son-in-law John Wayles Eppes. Mr. Eppes married Jefferson’s daughter the author of that docu- Mary (Maria) Jefferson. The letter was provided to the Toledo Public Library in 1878, by Maria Jefferson Eppes Shine, the granddaughter of Wall St. hits record high; ment, had come to realize John Wayles Eppes and Mary Jefferson Eppes. carrying through on those ideals would be more diffi- jobless rate falls to 6.1% cult then he ever could have imagined. McCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS Jones industrial index, com- The conservative Feder- WASHINGTON — Job posed of 30 major corpora- alist Party, under the lead- growth surged in June, cap- tions, finished up 92.02 ership of President John ping the U.S. economy’s best points to a record of Adams, was in power at first half since 1999, driving 17,068.26. the time and had plunged blue chip stocks to a record The Standard & Poors in- the country into a multi- high, and leading analysts to dex 500 rose 10.82 points to million dollar deficit by say the economy is shifting 1985.44, approaching a continuing to build a to a higher gear. record. The tech-heavy Nas- larger, more powerful mil- Employers added 288,000 daq closed the day up 28.19 jobs last month, the Labor points to 4485.93. ■ Read the letter and see Department said on Thurs- The new jobs exceeded video of it at our Web site: day, pushing the unemploy- expectations that the econ- toledoBlade.com Maria Jefferson ment rate down two-tenths omy would add about Eppes Shine* of a percentage point to 6.1 200,000 jobs last month. itary, said Bruce Way, a percent, where it last was in Statisticians also in- professor of history at the September, 2008. creased May’s already University of Toledo. The Buoyed by the jobs report, strong preliminary jobs 5th U.S. Congress had also the Dow Jones industrial av- number by 7,000 to 224,000, passed the Alien and Sedi- erage of blue chip stocks and April’s number by tion Acts which, among raced past the 17,000 thresh- 22,000 to 304,000. other things, prohibited old at the open of trading “Businesses are finally any speech that was criti- and stayed there all day. getting their groove back cal of the federal govern- Financial markets closed and hiring more. This sig- ment. early for the Independence nals that the expansion is These actions were Day holiday, and the Dow See ECONOMY, Page A4 things Mr. Jefferson was strongly opposed to, as he John Wayles Eppes made clear in the Declara- Some among us insist that Congress have no privileges but those tion of Independence. He given by the constitution, which go only to their own persons & to ‘STRAW DONORS’ USED believed that people proceedings within their own doors: while others insist there is an should have the right to inherent right of self-preservation in every body of men, which express their opinions and authorizes them to do whatever they think necessary for protecting Campaign-fraud case did not believe the federal themselves undisturbed in the exercise of their functions. There is government should be all- little doubt which sentiment will be strongest within doors and powerful; instead he be- which without. — by stopping enlistments, & suspending for one is very similar to Noe’s lieved the individual states year the building of the 74. they reduce the defecit to 31/2 millions, should be able to govern Author, Fox commentator D’Souza guilty themselves. Your’s affectionately Mary (Maria) NOTE: Spelling, grammar, and puncuation Th. Jefferson Mr. Jefferson, a Demo- errors are on the part of the author. By STEPHEN cratic-Republican and the Jefferson Eppes GRUBER-MILLER vice president at the time, BLADE STAFF WRITER expressed his frustration at *Maria Jefferson Eppes Shine was the founder of the Maria Jefferson Chapter Money keeps finding its not being able to do any- of the Daughters of the American Revolution in St. Augustine, Fla., in 1896. way into politics, whether thing to oppose these laws it’s supposed to or not. in a personal letter dated Right-wing conservative See LETTER, Page A3 THE BLADE author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza’s guilty plea on May 20 of using “straw Noe D’Souza Declaration stirs debate of life, liberty, and pursuit of accuracy donors” to circumvent the D’Souza, the author of at NEW YORK TIMES 1776. evident,” no less. not, she maintains, on the federal individual cam- least 15 books who has also PRINCETON, N.J. — Or almost exactly? The error, according to badly faded parchment paign-finance contribution appeared as a commentator Every Fourth of July, some A scholar is now saying Danielle Allen, a professor original. limit is just one recent high- on Fox News, pleaded guilty Americans sit down to read that the official transcript of at the Institute for Advanced That errant spot of ink, profile example of cam- to convincing two of his the Declaration of Indepen- the document produced by Study in Princeton, N.J., she believes, makes a differ- paign-finance fraud. In fact, friends to donate $10,000 dence, reacquainting them- the National Archives con- concerns a period that ap- ence, contributing to what the charges are almost iden- each to the unsuccessful selves with the nation’s tains a significant error — pears right after the phrase she calls a “routine but seri- tical to those which sent for- Senate campaign of Wendy founding charter exactly as smack in the middle of the “life, liberty, and the pursuit ous misunderstanding” of mer Lucas County GOP Long in New York, and then it was signed by the Second sentence beginning “We of happiness” in the tran- the document. fund-raiser Tom Noe to reimbursing them for those Continental Congress in hold these truths to be self- script, but almost certainly See ERROR, Page A3 prison eight years ago. 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