The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-02-28

VIRGINIA
ADOPTED FEB. 3, 1874, Ar RICHMOND VA.
The Richmond Enquirer Of the 18th instan,
presents the public with this address. IL bears
the impress OF the great principles OF The State
TO which il is addressed, and exhibits IN bold
relief a most jus, and philosophic view OF those
deep seated and antagonist interests, which, III
IA greater or less degree. have pervaded every
Society, every form Of government, as well IN
ancient as in modern tmes-interests which
were never in greater state OF hostility ana
activity for superiority, Throughout our land
than OF late, and at present.
The address discloses the nature and extent
|of this conflict with the ability of MASTER
This struggle for political supremacy under the
present Constitution Of the United States, be-
tween 'he People at large" on the one hand,
land the rich and moneyed class, and woud-be
|tiled, and what, in days gone by, were called
|'ihe reii-bOrn," on the other hand, made its
first open demonstration in the early admins
|tralon Of the new Government. AT the out
|set we find Hamilton al The head Of the Fede-
|ral party, advocating the Funding System, and
of the first Bank OF the United
States in 1871 andwe see Jefferson, and Mad
|ison, at the head Of the Republican party, re-
|sisting these as breaches upon the new Consti-|
tuition. This is the ground work of these lwo|
great parties, which ha, continued TO the pre-
sent moment and, after various success, Fed-|
|eralism reached lis acme in the canvass, and inl
the election, and in the extraordinary Congress-
|of Gen. Harrison in 1889, 1910, 1871.
Ii would have been mo. important service,
rendered to the cause of freedom, if, at Mis
particular conjunclure, this address had point 1
led out the causes which had led to such an ex
|traordinary ascendency Of the principles OF Fed 1
|eralism or Whiggery, or despotsm, over the great
principles Of liberty or Republcansm, as seen
in the struggle of 1910, lS4l. For, disguise
this contest as you will, it is the same, mere
struggle between liberty and despotism; be-
Tween Hamiltonan Federalism, Oh the one
hand. and Jeife sonian and Madsonian Repub
|licanism on the other, as explained and Illus
|lrated in the resolutions of Virginia and Ken
lucky in 1900 Such an expose is yet due 10 the
cause # liberty.
But, nevertheless, this address Of the Demo
|cratc State Convention Of the Sd February.
| 1874, has performed most important and IN
valuable service, by one OF the most able and
graphic sketches of the principles of the con
lending parties which have divided our people
ever since the first formation Of the present
Constitution. This contest in our body polite
.commenced. as was suspected, in the Federal
Convention which framed the Constitutions
suspicion, in a great degree, verified by the pub
licalion, "by authority" Of mutilated and
| fal flied copy of the Journal and Proceedings Of
that Convention: mulilation and Justification
which has never been corrected since by pro-
per and accurate edition; and still remains as a
disgrace somewhere a mutilalion OF itself
proof pregnant Of The contest between Federal
ism and Repubcanism, at the moment of the
forgery in 1919 II is chip Of the old block
What an attachment 10 arislocracy and 10
charters and interpretations could not accom-
pish by enumeration and by insertion in the
plan of the Constitution, when before the Con
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compished, since, by latitudinous conslruc-
lions, by the subtleties of Interpretation, but
above all by the fatal doctrine of precedent of
practice, Of usage, of acquiescence, Of tacii
consent, Of universal acquiescence.
rapid sketch of the principles of Federal,
ism and Republication is below, extracted
from this address. The two creeds are thus
forcibly summed up: