—“POLITICIANS—A SCRAP,” NEWPORT (PA.) HERALD, APRIL 8, 1790 Be ADAMS to your nation still endear’d!And be the powers of JEFFERSON rever’d!Be MADISON for eloquence renown’d!Still various worth in HAMILTON be found!Truth soon must flourish, enmity decrease—They come, the patrons of true worth, and peace! —STANZAS ON THE MOVEMENT OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FROM NEW YORK TO PHILADELPHIA, AND THE ARRIVAL THERE OF CONGRESS, FEDERAL GAZETTE, DECEMBER 6, 1790 JEFFERSON REMAINED AT MONTICELLO THROUGH FEBRUARY 1790, as his daughter Patsy married her second cousin, Thomas Mann Randolph. He then traveled to Richmond to arrange for payment of outstanding debts to British creditors (the interest now representing more than half of the principal). Afterward he rode north, stopping in Philadelphia to pay his respects to Benjamin Franklin, eighty-four and near death.1 The colorful, garrulous Senator William Grayson of Virginia, age fifty, predeceased Franklin by a few weeks. There was talk of a contest for his seat between Madison and Patrick Henry, but it was just talk.
