sources of happiness, and you possess many within yourself.
Firmness of mind and unintermitting occupation will not long leave you
in pain. No event has been more contrary to my expectations, and these
were founded on what I thought a good knowledge of the ground. But of
all machines ours is the most complicated and inexplicable." It was
Solomon who said, "there be three things which are too wonderful for me,
yea, four which I know not." This fourth was, "the way of a man with a
maid." He might have added a fifth,--the way of a maid with a man,
which, evidently, is what Jefferson meant.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 5: In some of the States slaves were reckoned as "chattels
personal;" in others as "real estate."]

[Footnote 6: J. C. Hamilton says, in his _History of the Republic_, that
"the motion prevailed by a vote of all the States excepting
Massachusetts and Rhode Island." But his understanding of the question
is in other respects incorrect,--misunderstood, one may hope, rather
than misstated lest he should give credit, for what he considered a
meritorious action, to Madison.]

[Footnote 7: For the details, so far as they can now be recalled, of
this single romantic incident in Mr. Madison's life, I am indebted to
Nicoll Floyd, Esq., of Moriches, Long Island, a great-grandson of
General William Floyd.]

CHAPTER IV

IN THE STATE ASSEMBLY

As the election of the same delegate to Congress for consecutive
sessions was then forbidden by the law of Virginia, Mr. Madison was not
returned to that body in 1784. For a brief interval of three months he
made good use of his time, we are told, by continuing his law studies,
till in the spring of that year he was chosen to represent his county in
the Virginia Assembly. It may be that "the sentiments and manners of the
parent nation," which he lamented seven years before, had passed away,
and nobody now insisted upon the privilege of getting drunk at the
candidate's expense before voting for him. But it is more likely that
the electors had not changed. The difference was in the candidate; they
did not need to be allured to give their votes to a man whom they were
proud to call upon to represent the county. Mr. Madison's reputation was
already made by his three years in Congress, and he now easily took a
place among the political leaders of his own State.

The position was hardly less conspicuous or less influential than that
which he had held in the national Congress. W