The Nevada journal., 1852-09-24

DEMOCRATIC CLuD.--On Tuesday eve
ming sprinkling of the democracy met
at the Gregory House on Main street,
and formed a club. AS this meeting
will in all probability be called great
gathering" we took pains to count those
present in the room while the nomina-
tions for officers were going on, and, all
told, found thirty persons present AS
the faithful were not abundant in the
shape of privates the club sp!iced out
its Cficcrs with nominees to county Off
ces.
The preamble to the constitution
adopted commences in the folio wing
naive manner:
believing that it will be beneficial
to our country and the democratic party.
to form clubs for the purpose of inculea-
ting the true principles of Republican
government, as taught by Jefferson
jackson, and others, Of the democratic
political school," &c.
Now, the democracy Of the present
day, including the unsophisticated au-
thors of the above, oppose protection to
American industry and internal i'm
proyements, and invoke jefferson as
their authority Behold, jefferson ap-
pears, and shames such libels on his doc
trines. In his annual message of 1906
he says:
"Thc question now comes forward
10 what other objects shall these sur
pluses [anticiratedl be appropriated
and the whole surplus of imports, after
the entire discharge of the public debt,
and during those intervals when the
purposes of war shall not call for them?
Shall te suppress 'mpostS, and gire that
advantage to foreign orer domestic manu-
features? On few articles Of more gen.
eral and more necessary use, the sup
preston will doubtless be right; but
the great mass of the articles on which
lmpo't is paid, are foreign luxuriss, pur-
chased by those only who are rich
enough to afford themselves the use of
them. Their patriotism would certain
ly prefer its continuance and appicat ton
to the great purposes Of public education,
roads, rireTs, canals, and such other OBJ
Jeefs Of public improvement, as it may be
thought proper to add to the constitu-
tional enumeration Of federal powers
BY these operations, new channels OF
communication will be opened between
the states, the lines Of separation will
disappear, their interests will be identi-
hed, and their union ccmented by new
and indissoluble ties."
MIR. Jeferson's views, as here prese n
ted, were most enlarged and comprs-
hensivs, embracing not only internal
improvements, but education, and the
protective policy, as do wings.
General Jackson also, in his annual
message Of 1880, contemplating the
states as agents for using the surplus
funds Of the national treasury in pro.
jects of internal improvement, enters
into the following argument:
"lt may metimes happen that the
interests Of particular states would not
be deemed to coincide with the general
interest in relation to improvement
within such states. But if the danger
to be apprehended from this source il
sufficient to require it, discretion might
be reserved to Congress to direct to such
Improvements q general character as the
states concerned might not be disposed
to unite in, and the application of the
quotas of those states, under the restric-
tion Of confining to each state the ex-
penditure Of its appropriate quota. 1t
may, however, be assumed as safe gen.
eral rule, that such Improvements az
serve to increase the prosperity of the
respective states in which they are
made, by giving new facilities to trade,
and thereby augmenting the wealth and
comfort Of their inhabitants. constitute
the surest mode Of comforting permanent
and substantial advantages upon the
. whole. The strength as we'll as the true
glory of the confederacy are founded on
the prosperity and power of the several
independent sovercignties of which it ia
composed, and on the certainty with
which they can be brought into sue cess-
ful active cooperation through the
agency of the federal government"
Our green friends who would be be-
logged quite without an indefinite idea
that they are treading in the steps Of
illusti ions predecessors, are requested 30
compare their true democracy with the
above.