第一章杰斐逊总统人民法院的隆隆声总统约翰亚当斯的教练已经很难消失于三月4,1801，今天上午在距离当托马斯杰斐逊先生进入了康拉德的国会山，在那里他一直公寓早餐室高校学士学位的宿舍生活中他的副总统。他在桌子下在其他寄宿结束他一贯的座位，在民主原则，但是她面带微笑拒绝接受布朗夫人的冲动，谁感觉，椅子，在这个大日子主席。杰斐逊应该有他所顽固拒绝占用的表头，靠近壁炉的地方。除了有来自肯塔基州的参议员认为，谁杰弗逊先生携带妻子他人平等太远。但杰斐逊先生不会接管国会议员谁是他的同胞寄宿生优先。康拉德的是方便附近的国会大厦，在山南侧，并指挥了广泛的意见。在山，这是在夏天新绿野生纠结成一个广泛延伸到波托马克平原debouched斜坡。
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    CHAPTER I. PRESIDENT JEFFERSON'S COURT The rumble of President John Adams's coach had hardly died away in the distance on the morning of March 4,1801, when Mr. Thomas Jefferson entered the breakfast room of Conrad's boarding house on Capitol Hill, where he had been living in bachelor's quarters during his Vice-Presidency. He took his usual seat at the lower end of the table among the other boarders, declining with a smile to accept the chair of the impulsive Mrs. Brown, who felt, in spite of her democratic principles, that on this day of all days Mr. Jefferson should have the place which he had obstinately refused to occupy at the head of the table and near the fireplace. There were others besides the wife of the Senator from Kentucky who felt that Mr. Jefferson was carrying equality too far. But Mr. Jefferson would not take precedence over the Congressmen who were his fellow boarders. Conrad's was conveniently near the Capitol, on the south side of the hill, and commanded an extensive view. The slope of the hill, which was a wild tangle of verdure in summer, debouched into a wide plain extending to the Potomac.