The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-06-27

learned too. that when the die was cast, and the vote
given, with what breathless anxiety the whole nation
Cooked to hear the result of that election State after
State cast its votethe election was cose-the scales
stood equally poised upon the beamNew York had not
yet spoken Here she lay in her full length of FIVE hun
dred miles from the Atlantic to the lakes of the north
he eyes OF all America were turned TO the Empire State
he nation looked TO her to say by her vote in that con-
test, whether federalism democracy should prevail in
our land The vote was close here for federalism dated
Its orgn IN your own capital federalism found father
In Cen Hamlton-and 1t remained for New York to say
whether she would repadate the doctrines of her own
son, and stand by the Union or whether she would adj
here to him, and let liberty drift for itself The Empre
State at last spoke She withdrew her hand from Gen
era Hamllton--she turned her back upon the gag law
she turned her back upon the alien and sedition law
she rePudated her own sonshe expelled by her vote
federal administration, and taking Thomas Jefferson by
the hand conducted HIM to the executive chair Cheers
And what has been the result You see the result in The
mighty progress which society has made through the
whole length and breadth of this land Since that time
the number OF the States has doubled Since that time
time, the wealth OF this people has increased hundred
fold Since that time, the glorious example of free peo
pie, presented under our constitution has commenced and
Is rapidly advancing free revolution in Europe [Cheers
What did federalism do after it was expelled from pow
er' want to show you how exactly the features of the
federal party are perpetnated in part of the present
wing party and the chief of those features contempt
for and disregard OF the rights of the people Under
the then existing constitution the people voting for elect
of President and Vice President did not designate the
one OF those officers from the other For instance, in
voting for Jefferson, every man in the Union voted for
him as President; in voting for Col Burr, every vote
given for him was for Vice Presdent-the number of
votes equal By accidental omission in the fed
era constitution, was in the power of fraud and per-
jury to thwart the will of the people, and by so doing
produce civil war and resort to TO settle the differ
ences between the parties How was it The votes
being counted out, the election being transferred to the
House Of Representatives. the federal party dropped their
candidates and applied to Col Burr also from the State
OF New York, and who had been as Vice President
on the Jefferson ticket to allow them to use him to
commit fraud on the people, by electihg him Presi-
dent through the votes of the House OF Representa-
tives Now mark, (and name this, in order to eau
ton you IN this present cOntest) the constitution
provides that if of the candidates before the
people shall receive more than one-half of all the
votes given, the election then passes from the people
to the House of Representatives in Congress And
when goes there the President is elected by States and
not by individuals For instance, each State gives
vote more. Delaware little Delaware with pop
ulaton smaller perhaps than this county-less believe,
than 900 people-gives one vote The great State of
New York, with two and half or three millions, gives
but vote You will observe that the size Of the
State its population counts nothing when the election
of President is lost to the people and transferred to
the House OF Representatives State giving but
vote. Sixteen votes in the next House Of Representa-
ves may elect the PRESIDENT and sixteen of the smallest
States may give those votes, and elect the President
although those States may contain less than onetwen
eth part Of the population of the Union Such was the
state OF things when the election went to the House in
$780, in consequence OF no OF the candidates getting
majority OF the whole number. The House of Repre-
was aie of intrigue ne1e were po O.
dent The federal party bad been beaten before the peo
pie Mr.. Jefferson had beaten Mr.. Adams-he run
ming President Burr had beaten his competition
he running as Vice President on the Jefferson ticket
But the election, as stated in consequence of the omis
sion in the constitution was lost to the people, and went
They had been fairly beaten before the people, utterly
repudiated They appealed to Colonel Burr to allow
them to make use OF him, and to elect him BY the House,
President They sat day in and day out Night in and
night out did they traffic. bargain intrigue, and manage
to palm off Burr upon the people as their President and
for him, and no one man alive had voted for Colonel
Burr. They within one of accomplishing
their object and had they accomplished it. the people Of
necessity of yielding to the most damnabe usurpaon Of
the supreme executive power the country, resortng
the people of France have most rghtully resoed Of
late-to arms in order to redeem the constitution
GCheers When that act was done, when that effort
was made-l should have said, when it was attempted
the democracy in many parts of the Unon anticipating
assemble in masses, as you are now here assembled
The history of those times informs that they not only
began to assemble but began to think of the only
naming means OF arrestng the usurpaton and sustain
ing the constitutional resort to arms When the fed
eralsts heard that not being much of war party, they
quitthe game. [Cheers.] Here, then, my feow-citi-
zens, effort by nsdious usurpation, to obtain
the power OF the government not only without the will
but against the will, of the people They failed. Mr.
Jefferson came in on the vote of the democracy OF the
Union. He administered the government in such
obtain the appreciation of his countrymen He
was re elected He was succeeded by Mr.. Madison
also democratic President; he e.eeced, and
succeeded by Mr. Monroe also democratic President;
and he, too, was re elected.
Here then, from 1900 up to 1924, the government
administered exclusively by democratic Presidentshc
nation in every instance declaring they approved of and
sanctioned the and the principles of these demo-
cratic administrations. And one of the reasons why MT
Monroe was elected by such an overwhelming majority
the first time-the why Mr. Madison was 80 pow
erully sustained in his second electlonarose from the
fact that with Great Britain interviewed, and large
part-the federal part of the old federal paryQ will not
assimate it to any recent case took sides with the Brit
it infamous, wicked and unhoy for the government
of the United States to defend itself against Great Britain
When British troops were on American soil, they en-
poyed means holy and unhoy to parayze the
Of the government. They carried their Vaccinations
at Hartford. They carried their opposition in Con-
gress. They Numbered forth from the pulpits of the
Union their denuncations against the waragainst the
party which administered the government, and de-
nounced Mr. Madison the vies of all villanous Of
tenders. The same men now ready to worship Mr..
Madison as saint, [augher,l if they can only pre-
vail on the democracy to forget that they joined the
British in the late war ~ Laughter and cheers1 But
there is part of that party who did not do so. The
arms and in the redemption of the country forever and
ever from the danger Of British neighbor Federalism
sunk crushed under the blow, and there it lay dead and
inanmate. [Cries OF good, and cheers When that
party had rendered themselves utterly Infamous by thelr
opposition to the country during the warso much So tha
they dare not look the nation in the facehe leaders
gave the word, "to your tents, oh Israel and every
themselves Dissolved party they declared that we
will now have hacyon daysthat there no more party
and that federalism had been Mistaken though inno-
Gently mistaken Laughter and cheers They had OPP