The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-11-05
AND REPUBLICAN,.

|5,pTEs-FEDERAL AND REPUBLICAN.
n ,ssept number Of this paper, Chat Of Mon
Lsv lss, We adserted TO ths siarins dissiharits
ss;sh 20 capilay distinguished the parties of this
Univ as ,hey existed at the first, and as they
"A. continued down to the present time
An address, NOT long since put forth by the fedc-
!, !, wbig party of Massachusetts, occasions the
,.,orreuce now to this topic neither "aat, stale, nor
,n,ro6able.r Nor has that fact alone provoked
I'M, consideration Of this subject Mr.. Jefferson
~, Msgnus Apollo) habiiually inculeated the
|s,.., importance of frequent return to ''funda-
Dental principles" That virtuous and ever-to-be-
r,y,red patriot, whose memory is so aaectionately
.,,.s,,ed in the republican heart Of America, al
r.v, impressed the opinion, that, IL panacea for
,. ,urs or prevention OF political errors, ollen lead
no 10 the extinction Of the popular liberty, was TO
found discussions and "reminiscences Of this
|,ur would supply it. obeying the injunction which
AZ great an opinion creates, we resume asubject not
;o,snded TO be abandoned when we last touched it,
We have already quoted the declarations of the
.A,, Adams. We have likewise cited others of
Alexander Hamilton, the great CoryphUus Of the
sd.rsl party. Il has thus been made, we think,
unite manifest, that our present form Of government
w,, yery far from being such as the metropolitan
leaders originally desired it to have been. Were it
worth while to pursue that inquiry, the proofs tend
ios TO confirm the conclusion formerly drawn are
cumulative they lie thickly .intersperscd in the re-
,ored conversations Of those worthless, and in their
elaborate writings, prepared with elaboration for the
Judgment and approval ofposterity. tits not pretend
Cd, however that these eminently Objectionable pol
clans were arrayed in opposition to the present cons
ou when plan oft was presented for the ratifca-
ton Of the Satcs for, the contrary, the most for
mdablc and obnoxious Of them all, was engaged with
Madison and Jay in urging its acceptance upon the
country-a patriotic labor, which General Hamil-
ton encountered with consummate ability. Tho
allegation is, that had the counsels and advice Of
certain celebrated federalists prevaed-had the po-
itica maxms of such men got the predominance, a
constitution radically different from that finally
adopted, might have been forced upon reluctant
people, seeking immediate repose after the ex-
haus,ing tolls of the revolution, and anxiousy de-
string present guarantee and assurance that ag-
,aiion should cease. Some fundamental law, no mat
ter how dislastefu the people, longing for quietude
an stability, would murmurngly have embraced.
To help forward so possible an event, the neficien-
CIV and feebleness of the old confederation orebodcd
the approach Of intestine disorders seeing that the
tempest Of the revolution had gone down. We Ger.
tanly then did escape, by great good fortune, the
precpice Of an American monarchy to which several
Of the master inteects and ruling spirits Of the pc
riod would have dragged passive people, over
wrought in the battles of freedom, and toil-worn in
It's defence We owe our deliverance from an alb
honed destiny to the stern virtue, the determined
fmness Of the republicans Of that day; to such nc.
bic and enthusiastic spirits as Jefferson and Patrick
Henry
The forestborn Demosthenes-
Whose thunder shook the Philip Of the seas.
But, the constitution being adopted, the admins
|taiion Of Washington commenced. Mr.. Jefferson
whose purely republican principles, and great ca
|pacty for public affairs, had attracted so much of
the national respect and acknowledgements Secretary
of State. He was speedily to become the great
champion Of the people. Washington, in that APP
pontment, seems to have had reference TO the ultra
federalism of Hamilton, the Secretary of the Treas
ury, and probably proposed balance, by
an opposite extreme. But other appointees of the
eabnet-Knox &c.--destroyed the equilibrium,
by uniform resistance of the Secretary Of State
in all the consultations. Before noticing the
profound strokes of policy through which the
Secretary Of the Treasury meditated change
Of the practical operations of the government, and
whereby it was to become as nearly assimilatcd to
the English system as possible, we will rccur to the
representation which Mr.. Jefferson makes Of the
state Of opinion particularly SO far as Hamilton
and Adams nre implcated) at the period of his re-
turn from France which, we believe, was contem-
poraneous with his taking charge of the Department
OF State. Mr.. Jefferson states that, upon his arr-
val, "he President received me with cordially; and
my colleagues, and the circle Of principal citizens,
apparently with welcome. The courteses of din
ner-partles given me, as stranger newly arrived
among them, placed me at once in their familiar So
e'sty. But cannot describe the wonder and morti-
ncation with which the table conversations filed me.
'"S e''Si sopC, anu preference LOT
nns'y over republican government was evidently the
hvorlte sentiment. An apostate could not be, nor
ye'ahypocri,c; and found myself, for the most
part the only advocate on the republican side
" 'he question, unless among the guests there
enanced to be some member of that party from the
legislative houses" In the same nnexion, we
,Auact what he relates az having transpred at
large dinnerpariy: "After the cloth was removed, !"
NC remarks, conversation was led to the British
constitution, on which Mr.. Adams observed, Purge
'aa' constitution of its conuptions, and give to its
popular branch equality of representation, and il
YOU'D DC the most perfect constitution ever devised
" me wit Of man, Hamilton paused, and said
urge IL Of Its coTrupiions, and you make il an i'm
p'acucable government. As it stands now, with all
10 supposed defects, it is The most perfect system
which ever existed.'n
sach were the opinions Of this transcenden, fed
,:"A man who unfortunately occupied posi-
W., NJ" ~ inc cabinet, and place in the confidence of
''n'neon, which enabled him successfully to
'eu'a mat system Of political measures which have
'nee inflicted upon the country so much of disaster
:. -" party turmoil We do not question the SINGER
~ 81 Patriotism of the Secretary of the Treasury of