JOHN ADAMS AND THOMAS JEFFERSON DIE ON THE SAME DAY, JULY 4, 1826.
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Three Presidents Die on July 4th: Just a Coincidence? | Constitution Center
But back in 1826, Daniel Webster’s eulogy for Adams and Jefferson spoke to a point that many people believed: that something other than coincidence was involved.
“The concurrence of their death on the anniversary of Independence has naturally awakened stronger emotions,” Webster said. “It cannot but seem striking and extraordinary, that these two should live to see the fiftieth year from the date of that act, that they should complete that year, and that then, on the day which had fast linked forever their own fame with their country's glory, the heavens should open to receive them both at once.”
“As their lives themselves were the gifts of Providence, who is not willing to recognize in their happy termination, as well as in their long continuance, proofs that our country and its benefactors are objects of His care?”
The Falls of t the Warrior River. About two miles, by the water line, above the city of Tuscaloosa, a ledge of nearly perpendicular rocks, extends across the entire channel of the Warrior river, abutting on its banks on either side. At low water stages of the river, during the summer months, this ledge rises ser eral feet above the surface of the waters below it, and forms an impassible barrier to navigation, which is still further obstructed by the shoals and rocks that swarm in the basin of the river, for more than a hundred miles above the ledge, which consequently forms the limit. to* which the stream navigable from below. Over this ledge, the entire volume of the waters of the river pours in an unceasing flow, produc ing, by their plunge, a loud and continuous sound,' which can be heard to the diatauce of several miles, in all directions.
This water-tull is known as the "Warrior-Fulls," forms a notable feature in the topography of the river, and in our suburban land scape. It must have been very far back in the unchronicled centuries of the past, when these Falls first lifted their voice of waters upou the air.Indeed, for aught that either geology or history has to say to the contrary, they may be coneval in ago with the river itself, and their not unmusical sound may have formed the jubilaut shout that heralded the first gliding of its waters from their mountnin sources downward to the Gulf. At all events, we may safely assume that the "Warrior Falls" are of very aucient origin. For couturies before Columbus discovered America, and long before the Red Man became a dweller in the laud, their solemn monotone broke the silence of the primeval woods which overshadow them, oven yet. Then the wild bird and the untamed denizens of tho forcat alono knew of their existence.The Indian, doubtless, ofteu paused, as he passed near them in the hunt for game, or on the firce ruid ot sav.
age war, to listen to their solemn roar, and deemed it, perhaps, the voice of the "Great Spirit," whom ho worshiped aud fearod, walking in the solitude of the woods. The bold DeSoto and his beardod marauders heard their sound, and wondered as thoy passed by and on, in their phantom quest for gold. Next and last, came the pioneers, and then the later and present settlers of this portion of the State, iu whose ears the *Falls"' ring out their watery chimes, as if a bell call to cuterpriso in utilizing their waste powers for manufactaring purposes. Tho "Falls" can be distinctly heard in nearly every of our cityTheir ceaseless mouotoue, not unlike tho| moan of pines shaken by the winds, mingles with the busy hum of life on our streets by day, and floats through them by night like au echo from the past, and a roice of the ever on going present, blended in one stream of sound, *
