Jefferson's Comparison: The History Of The Present King By Thomas Jefferson

On October 1, 1808, a manservant discovered President Jefferson in his old bathrobe lying across the wooden floors of the White House. His eyeglasses lay next to him, almost broken in half from his fall out of his chair and onto the floor. Wrinkled plans to reconstruct Monticello were laying across the desk and around the room were other clues as to who may have committed the crime. A broken oar, a foreign coin, a note reading “O Grab Me!”, a nautical map, a receipt for various goods, and tobacco leaves are just some of the important objects that investigators found scattered around the room. There was a handkerchief and a Congressional schedule on the desk as well, which investigators believed were Thomas Jefferson’s. Investigators at the

In his writing, Jefferson said, “The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of unremitting injuries & usurpations, among which repeated appears no solitary fact to contradict the uniform tenor of the rest but all have in direct object the establishment all having of an absolute tyranny over these states…” (Peterson 19). Jefferson went on to write twenty paragraphs about the King’s offensive misdeeds. “Attacks of this kind must have been particularly painful to George, who saw himself as the defender of established liberties in the face of unjustified and potentially dangerous incursions. They hit him where it would hurt most, as they were intended to” (Hadlow, 282). As more and more time passed, all the King could concentrate on was how much Thomas Jefferson had ruined his life and rule of England, so he began to write plans of how he could kill him in his

He snuck around trying to find what room President Jefferson was in. The light was getting low and the shadows scared the frantic King. At last, he found one that looked like a silhouette, and it was indeed, the President, sitting at his desk with his back to the door. King George III tiptoed inside and strangled Jefferson, holding the “O Grab Me!” note in front of his face so that it would be the last thing Jefferson would read. Hearing Jefferson choking was one of the most satisfactory moments of the King’s life. Then, he raised his arms high to give the final blow to the President’s head. One blow to the head would have to suffice because King George was so strong in that moment, that the oar broke. He thought he heard footsteps, so he ran out of the room and straight down the White House steps. King George thought the murder was a great success, yet he did not know that the maps, the receipt, and his money fell out of his pocket when he was fleeing the