Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-07-28
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time candidate for the Presidency there was
no candidate of the Federal party in the field.
Mr.. Adams, Mr.. Crawford, and Mr.. CLAY, who
were the other competitors, all belonged to the
Democratic party. The Federal party, as such,
had ceased to exist and when the issue was
formed between Gen. Jackson and Mr.. Adams,
which resulted in the election of the former to
the Presidency in 1928, lte leaders Of The Federal
Fary for ue most parf, toent 10 the support Of Gen.
JackSon. Those gentlemen, many of whom took
prominent positions in the jackson party, now de-
| llBht III being known as Democrats, and some of
them have been remarkable for the zeal and in
dusty with which they have sought to distin-
| guish themselves in the service Of modern Democ-
raey. rs though 1T We're their purpose to atone
for the terocity of their assaults upon the Democ-
racy Of Jefferson and Madison
The sh0oI Of modern Democracp dates no further
back than Mc administration of General Jackson.
He was its founder first, and expouuder after
wards; and so long as he lived, it could be pretty
well asccrtanCd what was Democratic and what
was not--a question which in these later years
has become very much perpcxed Ii General
jackson had favored National Bank as Madison
did, why, then, a National Bank would have been
Democratic ii he had sustained the American
system as Mr. Madison did, the policy of pro
tcctng domestic labor woad have been Demo
cratic, and it would also have been Democratic to
admit the constitutional power Of the govern
mcnt to improve rivers and harbors and to facili-
tate both internal and foreign commerce
But inasmuch as Henry Clay was the great
champion Of that general system, and had COM
mitted tho objectionable offence of prcferring
Mr.. Adams to General Jackson, in 1924, the
champion was to be attacked in his system, and
both must be prostrated together, if General
Jackson and his party were strong enough to do
it Then it was that the discovery was suddenly
made that Mr.. Clay was Federalist, although
his political course and principles exhibited no
shadow Of change; then it was that the adhe-
rents OF General jackson and mono others were
found to be entitled to the designation of Demo-
crats, Notwithstanding the Federalism Of many
Of their prominent leaders. 1t became at once
Democratic to denounce the whole system of
Democratic policy established in Madison's time
because Mr. Clay supported it, and wished to see
it developed in accordance with its true princi-
pies and its adaptation to the advancing growth
Of the country. Democracy then took its negatire
t3ro,, and found its function in destroying.
The party in opposition to Gen. Jackson's ad-
ministration, and headed by Mr.. Clay, took the
name Of Whgs--a name connected with so many
patriotic associations that the other side sought
to impair its influence by applying along with it
the appellation Fcderai, which was supposed to
carry some odium wherever it was attached. But
the application of the term to the Wings is not
more Incorrect in point of fact than the ordinary
political Of the term itself is senseless. The
party that framed the federal constitution in the
convention of 1857, supported it afterwards in
the several States, and finally established it upon
the ruins Of the old confederation, were first de-
signated Federahyts, and the designation was ap-
propriatc and characteristic. The leader of the
Federal party was George Washington, a man OF
some rcpute in his day, and generally believed
to be Il sincere lover OF his country and friend
! to freedom.
We believe that the term democrat was taken
. from the French revolutionists, who used it as
antaGouistcal 10 the term ariStocrdt, then term
Of rcprohation in France. This was q proper
use Of it but there is no antagonism between the
terms democratic and tedeTdlist-none whatever
Mr. Jefferson was strictly correct when he said
i'll his inaugural address, " We are aH tederalists,
scc are all dsmoyatg.' All who favor the Union
arc Observation-Disclosures it is federal Union :;
al who favor the republican form Of government,
ag it exists among the States Of the Union, are
dcmocrats-because universal suffrage among
citizens, which is the basis Of our republicanism,
is the essential principle of democracy.
There is no principle of democracy involved at
all in any question as to the relative powers of
the federal government and those of the States.
Democracy sustained aud strengthened the powers
OF the federal government, and carried them al
most to the extent Of despotic force, when Gen.
jackson was President 1t finds no antagonist
in federalism, except that il would prefer n more
thorough Capitalization, which, in all probability,
it will effect it at some future time.
The SEVEN ANCIENT WONDERS OF THE
I WoRLD-These were 1st The brass Colossus
of Rhodes, 100 feet high, built by Cares A. D.
2SS occupying IL years in making. IL stood
across the harbor Of Rhodes 66 years, and was
, then thrown down by an earthquake 1t was