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PARALLEL BETWEEN THE CHAR.
GEES FORMERLY PREFERRED BY
THE FEDERALISTS AGAINST THO
MAS JEFFERSON AND THOSE NOW
THE WINGS AGAINST
MARTIN VAN BUREN,.
Vague abuse, though it prone nothing. often
effects much. An old pamphlet. Its au-
hor's profession. His charges against
Jefferson, compared ,rih those against Fan
Buren,. Charge that he wIs no soldier,
get fdrored standing army and a scheme
to grasp military pouer. Charge of mis-
management in military operations; of be-
ing foreign and anti american in his feel.
ings and habits. Charge of prescription;
Of atrocious defa cation: disproued By the
documents. Charge Of partialty in The
Postobfee department. Charge of.fading
the country prosperous, aud reducing it TO
beggdry; and of unnecessarily bringing ii
deeply into debt. An Ogle storyof erirar.
dgdnci, but no Kitchen %-to,oels or loads of
manure counted. Charge that promises Of
economy ,oere despisel, as soon as pope,' nds
obtained. The 'pe ISL credit, perish COM
merce" charge. Charge of unprincipied
hostility to a United States Bank. Charge
of intdelity. The lesson fought By these
old Hbels. They supply proof of identity
betuecn The Democracy Of 1900 and The
Democracy Of 1910; gice encouragement
in the present struggle, and furnish earnest
of success.
WASHINGTON, DavIEss Co. July 90, 1910.
In these dog-days OF party excitement, when
every nerve is stretched and every means
exerted, to insure a triumph, many of the
Wing presses and of the Wing orators ofthe
day chiefly trust for success TO vague. gener-
al, sweeping denunciations of the admins
tration they oppose and the candidate they
desire to defeat.
To such indefinite charges we are not
bound to reply. In legal phrase, we might
demur to them, and demand specifications.
Vague abuse proves nothing. But yet vague
abuse often effects much. Accusations, how
ever false, however frivolous, repeated day
after day, and month after month, tell at last,
by the mere force of iteration. Men say, or
think, that where SO much is said, something
must be true. And perhaps they are half
persuaded at last, that if Martin Van Bu-
ren's administration was in truth conducted,
as il processes TO be, on the principles Of the
good, old Jeffersonian school, the thousand
charges of extravaganza, corruption, pro-
scription, and fifty other sins of as dark a die,
COULD not be made and printed and circu-
lated against it.
And the young and inexperienced may be
induced to believe, that corruptions so gross
and abuses so fragrant, never mere charged
against a republican administration before.
To such men / address this article. Of
them | ask for it an attentive perusal.
What is your opinion of Thomas Jefferson,
the third President Of these United States?
Do you believe, as the (Whig) Boston Cour-
Ter, of May 9, 1884, expressed it, that JEFF.
ferson was an aarch Jacobin," and that his
s'principles and administration have done
more to torment this nation than all the
plaques described in the apocalypse could do,
if inflicted at one blown Are these your
sentiments? If they be, cast this article a.
side; it is not intended for you.
But do you reverence the memory of the
Author of the immortal Declaration2 Do
you believe in the excellence of Thomas
Jefferson's political principles, and in the pu-
rity of his democratic administration? Then
read what the "Great Opposition Party" of
those days said of him and his principles and
his do:ngs. And when you have read, ask,
yourselves how much is PROVED BY vague
assertion and s~pecious abuse.
There is now lying before me an old pamh-
let, placed in my hands by a friend. 1t was
printed in the year 1910, one year after JEFF
ferson went out of office; it is entitled "The
New England Patriot; being a candid COM
parison Of the principles and conduct Of the
Washington and Jefferson Administrations:
the whole founded upon indisputable facts
and public documents, to which reference is
made in the text and notes. Read, and dis
believe if you can-BUT READ. Boston,
printed by Russell and Cutler, 1870" As a
subtitle on the first page of the pamphlet,
the author has the following: An Ansper
to the Question, Why are you a Federalism