The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-12-25
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The history of the United States is the history of party
contests From the settlement Of the down to the
present time there have been parties organized and actively
engaged in attacking and defending the existing Govern
ment This contest preserves the just equilibrium OF the
Constitution for without the fear of being attacked the
marty in power would trampe the Constitution, and
scatter its fragments in the dust But the fears OF the party
in power and the vigilance of the party out of power con-
sute in truth the strength of the Constitution, and are the
surst method of its being pepetuated to distant generations
Our free system Of government would not last day,
these parties to une for their union would disclose
the fat that the line between the delegated and the re-
served powers had ceased to exist and that the entire mas
Of powers being consolidated the great distinctive feature
of the American COnederacy had been oberated from It's
fair face Il therefore, to suppose, as many DO
that party contests inuIe the energy of our country.
Among those who held this doctrine, find the name
of James Hamlton-whO is about the last statesman
that should have suspected of entertaining such herey
In the year 1921 he congratulated the country on the happy
results of the amagamaon of the Federal and Republican
parties II has led said he to the extinction OF those
parties the collisions of which weakened our country
and disturbed the harmony of its society Disturbed tne
harmony of its society thunder and lightning ds,
turb the harmony of the univeTseee flashing rom CLOUD
to cloud and laundering around the edges OF the great ORD
as it pours along its fire that sweeps the whole cath
before it,
But the assertion is not true that party contests iniure the
energies Of the country 1t would be an argument against
action of any kind and would ncucate that dull lazy
idle system of Chinese politics. which may suit the slug
CARDS of Asia but the mpulsive OF America 1t
is great fact then, that the masses OF men, action
is as beneficial to their intellectual vgor as action Is to the
success of the orator. Action is life. 1t is the purple
fe' of Homer that circuates through all the veins OF
man. and does not to flow long as scIniia OF
vitality remains in his system, for the life OF the es Is
the blood theeof' But trust that no one will imagine
that approve of those extraordinary excements which
occasionally result from the action OF party politics
The erocous contests for the Presidency in 1923 and in 1870
were disgraeenl-and for the moment deceney truth and
virtue appeared to ha fallen to the ground unWep
without crime"
To complain party contests because they are liable to ex
bibt some worse traits of human nature is TO complain
that man the perfect being ne was before he ex
nulsop The complaint absurd. We cannot create man
as we would have him. said Napoleon. but we must take
him as we find him." Hei good, and he Is bad with little
dirt and little deity, in his composition and Il must be
remembered that if party contests excite man to display the
dust from which he sprung, also causes him to emit
spark of the Deity that is his soul 1t is undenIable that
| war brings forth the noblest qualities of mankind Mr.
Calhoun once asserted this the floor OF Congress The
whole world vndcates the assertion in the homage pays
TO military men, THE value that the Romans set on mill
tary glory said Cicero appears from this, that almost
all statues are done in the habit and garb OF soldier
What is battlefield but conflict of parties? II we turn
from the Roman the American Republic, we shall see the
same value military glory for our most popular re
| sidents-Vashngton and Jackson-were military men,
They outstpped all competitors, because they possessed
great personal and military popularity distinct nom ponu-
cal: in word they successful military chettains
TVde Calhouns Speeches. The berest animoslty, and
valor for vaor the representative of virtue Homer spoke
with ud cement and knowledge says PlutaIeh when ne rep
resented valor the only virtue which Discovers divine
energy and those enthusiastic transports which re man
| above himself ,
But as to the distinction Of parties II well known that
there were three parties the Convention that framed the
Constitution of the United States Each OF these parties
was composed of able men, who struggled to impress upon
the nchoate Constitution the features thar ney believed
would repres ant the most perfect form OF venment that
could be devised by the wit Of man. Butt great error to
suppose that these parties up In the Conyenon AS
early As the 18th February, 1887 Mr. Madison had SAID to
Edmund Randolph Our situation is becoming every day
more and more critical No comes into the Federal
Treasury and people of reflection unanimously agree that
the existing Confederacy Otterng to its foundation Many
individuals of weight particularly in the Eastern distct are
suspected of leaning towards Monarchy Other individuals
prde partition Of the States into two or more Confedera
cies 1t is pretty certain that if more radical amendment O
the single one cannot be devised and introduced the
other of these revoutiOns-he latter, doub-wi take
place. On the 9Th of April he said to the gentleman
hold It for fundamental point that individual inde
pendence of the States is utterly econceabe with the
idea of an aggregate sovereignty think at the same time
that consolidation of the States into simple Republic
is mot less unattanabe than would be nexpedent Lett
be tried then whether middle ground can be takeI
which will at once support due supremacy OF the nanona
authority and leave in force the local authorities SO lar
they be unfortunately useful It WIN De seem 1nefe
fore that previous to the meeting of the Convention then
already existed three parties in the country. l. Those wit
advocated the individual Independence OF the States
Those who favored the consolidation of the States with on
simple Republic. 3. Those who assumed middle gronn
between the Independence. and the consolidation
of the States into one simple Republic The Convention
met ON Monday May 14th, 1884, and organized on tn
18th May when Edmund Randolph, opened the main bus
ness submitting proposition for revising the Federal sy
tenn This proposition embraced three banche-the defect
of the ConfedeIaton-he dangerous condition OF things
and the remedy. should be remarked that as the Cor
yeuton had originated with Virginia. the delegation fror
that State selected Mr. Randolph, to submit this propos
ton as the platform which the Convention was to cor
! struct the Constitution On the day Mr. Chart
Pinckney of South Carolina placed before the Convention
THE draught Of ederal Government, which he had pm
pared to be agreed upon between the free and ndepende
States of America" The draught Of Mr.. Pinckney, lii
the propositions of Mr. Randolph referred to the Con
ttee of the Whole appointed TO consider the State of Il
American Union and strange as the assertion may appea
# II nevertheless historically true, that although Mr. Ra
dophs propositions formed the neuceus OF the debates,
the Constitution when adopted, almost word for wou
transcnptof the Draught Of Federal Government tn
had been placed before the Convention by Mr. Pinckn
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