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If we could go to old Father Time and just out of curiosity ask him to push this Jefferson Day celebration back about a century and a half, I think we might find ourselves in the middle of a pretty lively scene here in North Carolina. Chances are the fur would fly. You see, I've been wondering about it because the other day I came across a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote in April of 1809. In it he said: "North Carolina is at present the most dangerous state. The lawyers all tories, the people substantially republican, but uninformed and deceived by the lawyers, who are elected of necessity because few others are candidates." What a. sad state of affairs! Of course it wasn't so bad as it might have been, beceuse when Jefferson said that the people of North Carolina were "substantially republican, # he was referring to his own liberal following, who called themselves "republicans" in that day. TRUMAN for NARA