Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1847-06-18
From the National Intelgencer.
The Administration and its Organ once
more.


We had much desired not shortly to have oc-
casion again to trouble our readers with the Ad-
ministraton or its Organ but an article in the
Union of Saturday leaves us hardly any choice
in the matter.
| There are three points in the article to which
we refer that seem TO deserve some attention and
which, in their order, we shall dispose of as
briefly as we can.
| FIRST. The application of the term " FEEDER.
al press and Federal party" to that great Cox.
sTITuTIoNAL Party, now undoubtedly the ma.
jority fthe People of this country, whose pres.
ent acknowledged designation is WING. We
notice this deliberate Misrepresentation now
the rather that this same term Federal has
been so frequently of late applied by the organs
of the Executive to the opponents of their high
Tory doctrine and practice. that it is perhaps
time that it received some serious notice, instead
of the cOntemptuous silence with which it has
heretofore for the most part been treated by the
wing press. The Tory doctrine and practice
wh'ch are peculiar characteristics OF the present
administration ana It's organs 10 snch an eN
tent ms That without them It's whole existence
would be a vaculim--lts entire history blank
leaf.-are those which refer every essential pow
erot Government to the Presidential authority
w"'on ' , io' " nearly al thc prcrogatvc'
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inv; inv 'us,uen'' vi .ie rIeroSau'e ol estaol'sh-
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nro.a r L ~ .''."' w. "li"oP'nit'"S '''e
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Butto come to this term Federal, and to
show now r'dlcnlonsly inapplicahle, in the actu-
al relations OF parties to each other, 1t is to the
great wing party OF the United States, or to
ourselves AS me hunoest OF the asserters OF its
principies against tie IoryiSn winch reigns IN
the palace ana radiates from It's precincts -
what was the true distinction between the Fed
eral party ana the Nepuplican party, as they
respectively termed themselves, when that dis
JUNCTION existed ana marked the line OF division
between the TWO great parties IN THIS Govern-
mcnt
Instead OF undertaking ourselves to define it.
we will take the definition as we find it laid
down by an authority to which however It may
coniouhd nm, the veteran OF the Union must
defer and submit. we bring Thomas Jefferson
into court.
In ietter OF Mr. Jefferson to John Adams,
dated June ~, 1913, we have the following
bret accountof the origin and principles OF the
Federal party and ITS antagonist:
1.-The terms OF Wing and Tory belong to
natural As well as to civil history. They de-
note the temper and constitution of mind of diff
ferent individuals. TO come to our own coun-
TRY, and to the times when yon ana ! became
hrst acquainted; we well remember the violent
parties which ag'tated the old Congress, and
their bItter contests lhere you and were
together, and the Jays ana the Dlcklnsons and
other antl-indePehaents were arrayed against
us. They CHERISHED the Monarchy OF Eng