The Jefferson Lies by Barton David

Author:Barton, David [Barton, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Patriot Bookshelf
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc.
Published: 2012-11-06T06:00:00+00:00

Leland made a special trip from Massachusetts to the White House to bring his friend Jefferson a special gift: a giant cheese.

Leland proposed that his flock should celebrate [Jefferson’s] victory by making for the new Chief Magistrate the biggest cheese the world had ever seen. Every man and woman who owned a cow was to give for this cheese all the milk yielded on a certain day—only no federal cow must contribute a drop. A huge cider-press was fitted up to make it in, and on the appointed day, the whole country turned out with pails and tubs of curd, the girls and women in their best gowns and ribbons, and the men in their Sunday coats and clean shirt-collars. The cheese was put to press with prayer, and hymn-singing, and great solemnity. When it was well dried, it weighed 1,600 pounds. It was placed on a sleigh, and Elder John Leland drove with it all the way to Washington, It was a journey of three weeks. All the country had heard of the big cheese, and came out to look at it as the Elder drove along.25

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