The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1840-06-12

lclcr 10 Mr tlcs,' Wflttcn IN 1879, Vllle JON
= Quincy Adams vas President, he says, tina
"through the course, ofatiack of the federal part
is now changed, Their principles remain the same
and that they now look TO "a single and splendit
government ofan aristocracy founded ON Lank
o"d other moneyed corporations, which would b,
TO them the next best blessing to The m0norchv o.
Mer FIRST aim, and perhaps the surest stcppn!
stone 10 IT,"
After having heard what Mr. Jefferson said o
the iedernss, alias wings, shortly before his death
you shall now learn What they have said Of him
even AS late as the year 1884, which was aitc
their uarty had passed through several Of the pre-.
tended transformations. The late William SuIi
van of Boston, Il man of great distinction in thai
party, in II work published by him in the year Just
mentioned, says Jefferson has by this example
and opinions done moe than any other man t,
mislcad and pcrven his fellow ci'Nens:' II,
sneerinsy calls Andrew jackson " the geRuiH,
nun Of lie people, and speaks of him as having
"a head and heart not better than Thomas Jeilcr-
son hud" General Hamilton, in the same sheer
ing manner, called Mr. Jefferson ''ihe man Of The
peoWe," meaning in plain English that bad AZ h.
was, he w0s INST good enough for them.
The editor of the Boston Courier, leading
modern wing, in his paper of the 9Th of May 1884
in noticing this work of Mr. sullivan, observes
Jefferson and is carr, inc ont the patriotic doctrine
of that arch Jacobn TO its fullest extent. We are
not Of the party who worship the dead or the liy-
Ing idol. The princi plies and the administration of
Mr.. Jefferson have done more 10 torment this ma
ton than all the plaques described in the Apoca-
| Npse could do if inflicted at one blow
Now, my friends, think YOU will all agree with
me that have already furnished evidence enough
to satisfy any reasonable mind, that the present
opposition party is nothing more nor less than the
same old federal party of Hamilton and Adams,
or at least, continuation of i, upon the same
grounds. And also, that the friends of the pres
cnt administration constitute the party which truly
respects the memory of Mr.. jefferson, aud ac'u-
ally nlhereS to the principles promu gated by him,
But have still some further landmarks by which
the old parties can be distinctly traced and recog
HiZCd.
| Every State in the Union which voted for Mr..
Jefferson in 1900, aud every State which sustained
the measures of Mr.. Madison, during the gloomy
wears or 1913 and 1914, voted for General tack
son, and afterwards for Mr.. Van Buren,. This fact
of Itself goes far towards proving that for which !
am cOnlcnding.
| presume Won all remember, or have heard OF,
the famous, or rather i&tamoUs Hartford Convcn-
ton, which was held IN the year lSil' Its no
torous nd acknowledge fact that all the members
of that convention are opposed 10 the present i'd
mini-lraton, and thorough going modern wings,
30 indeed are all the old war itderustS with now
and then an individual exception, upon which |
will say something directly. And within a few days
past federal member Of Congress from MaSSa-
chusctis (Nr SaonStalD who WIS ON the cont
mi,icc IN the Legislature of that State which re
ported the plan Of the Hartford Convention, under
took 10 dcl,nd on the floor of the House Of Rep
] a.. q a. 4
those upon which the trderaliSi,T acted during the
war. This same Hartford Convcnlionisi. and
good whig, (Grcat God what pcrvcrson Of
times y is now acting as one Ola central commit
tee at Washington, 10 promote The election of zen
cral HARRISON and Of course, 10 scatter all SORTS
of abuse against the Administration and the De-
mo"r;tlc party.
Let us come to some proceedings which have
taken place in our own state. IN the year 1913
the ii'deraliSts obtained maio'ily in the House
Of Assembly, hut wc still retained the great
err number of tile Council a resolution
was passed BY the latter body, and sent To the
House for concurrence, which proposed that the
members of both houses should convene on n day
mentioned, to offer rp thanks to Almighty God
for the victory obtained by the American Ar
nv under General Harrison, near the river
'rh"mcs, over the combined forces Of the
British and Indians. Tn the question of concur
rinr with The Council in passing the resolution.
uiu,ty-fyc (oll the Rcpub,icausl voted in favor
of il and every frderalist, there being one hundred
and euht war lcd,rnists ubn, is. fir war with
their own GoverumcnD | affirm that but oyE
ever has come over 10 our party. find also tina,
thirty three o. them are now dead. bu, of the soy
cn,y-fvc living ones, ererv man Except the one
already alluded to) is Il Mourough going mot
ern Uhig.
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