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by LEWIS. JAnrs Lxws and SAMUEL d. Lewis
THE PLATFORM OF THOMAS JEFFERSON.-CIyILl
AND RELIGIOUS TOLERATION.
Thomas Jefferson is recognised by all democrats the
founder Of the democratic party He their champion
and standardbearer in the first great conflict between
publcanism and federalism His election to the presidency
was the first great democratic triumph. Claiming to ad
here to the same distinctive political principles which
Mr. Jefferson triumphed Mr. Adams, cannot too
frequently those principles for present gui-
dance and encouragement Fortunately for the facility
of making this retrospect Mr.. Jefferson has placed upon
his own impershable record authentic and comprehen
sive enumeration of the fundamental principles of democ
racy which his election based, and on which
he determined to administer the government This emu
meraon is contained in his inaugural address delivered
the 4h of March, 1901 when he entered upon the du
ties of Chief Magistrate of the Union We quote from it
follows:
About to enter the exercise of duties
which comprehend everything dear and valuable to it
proper you should understand what deem the essential
principles of government and consequently those which
ought shape its administration will compress them
principles but not all its limitations Equal and exact
justice all men, of whatever State persuasion, religious
potica peace, commerce. and honest friendship with all
nations-enangng alliances with none the support OF the
State governments all their rights, the most competent
for domestic and the surest bull
warks against anepubcan tendencies the preservation
of the general government in its whole Vgo
as of peace home and safety abroad
jealous of the right Of eleson by the peopea mild
safe corrective of abuses which Topped by the sword
of res where peaceabe remedies unprovded abb
soute acquescence the decisions of the maoritythe vital
principle of republics from which there is appeal but to
force the principle and immediate parent of despotsm
we'll disciplined militia best reliance in and for
the first moments of war; till regulars relieve them; the
supremacy of the civil the military authority economy
the public expense that labor be lightly burdened
the honest of debts and sacred of
the public faith encouragement of agriculture and Of com
erce as handmade the diffusion of information, and the
aragnment of all abuses at the bar Of public reason free
dom religion freedom of the press and freedom OF per-
son protection of the habeas and trial by
urie mparay selected these principles form the bright
constellation which has gone before and guided steps
through of revolution and reformation The wisdom
sages the blood Of heroes have been
attainment They should be the creed of poit
cal ahthe text of civil insructon-the tombstone by
which try the services of those trust and should
wander from them in moments of alarm, let us
hasten steps, and to regain the road which
alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety"
in another part of the address Mr. Jefferson made
following emphatic appeal to his counrymen Let us
restore TO social intercourse that harmony and affection
without which liberty and life itself are but dreary
things And let reflect that, haring bansshed from our
land that religious intolerance under hich mankind 30 long
Died and suffered hire gained little zee eountenanec
political Intolerance dspoc wsd and capable Of
bitter and bloody prosecutions"
Every true democrat will recognise in this enumeration
the outline of those principles which have constituted the
bond of union in the democratic party since their
triumphant assertion in the election of Mr. Jefferson. By
these principles been tested for than
fifty years. and have been rejected federal adopted
democratic according to this standard.
Our object in bringing this consecrated creed Of democ
racy prominently before readers at this time is to d.
rect their special attention to the Importance which Mr.
Jefferson attached to Grill and religious freedom and tord
ton He abored under the conviction that religious in
tolerance had banshed from happy
try by the wise provisions of the constitution which
antY to all the rights of conscience and prohibit resort
to religious tests 1t did to him that with the
pages of history filled with impressive lessons of warning
on the subject of religious prosecutions and with con-
stutiona guarantees so comprehensive and explicit there
could be any danger from this quarter de deemed 1t su
6cieut to remind his conntxymen of the suferngs and
sacrifices under religious intolerance the strongest in
centve to political liberation The aen end sedition laws
had given rise OF threatening voieace and
was in reference that issue that he appealed earnestly
and eouuently to his countrymea against the spirit of
tolerance which had marked the contest When he came
to euumerae in detail the great fundamental principles OF
the democratic creed the sentiment of liberation was mp
permost in his mind The first article in the creed is
Equal and erect justice al men, Of whatever State per-
suasion religious political" Again, be proceeds in
the enumeration he specifics freedom Of Segon of
the bright constellation of principles to the attainment
which the wisdom of our sages and the blood of he
roes had been devoted
The contrast between the principles to which Mr. JEFF
ierson attached much Importance and those which
the secret order of potcoregious ntoerans based'
is peculiarly striking This organization is not content
with political or religious intolerance but it combines
both and seeks to reach its victims in the dark. What
would the author of the noble sentiments contained in the
foregoing extracts thought Of proposition to declare
all foreienboru citizens ineligible TO office? What would
have his feeling, he had been called upon as Presl
dent prescribe the members of any Religions denom
inntion2 Yet there are who claim to be democrats
connecting themselves with organization which proposes
TO practise tho revolving intolerance both political
and religious The democratic creed dsowns and repudi
SITES a those who thus trampe upon its sacred tenes
f0a6 GEN. LANE IN INDIANA
The Evansville Enquirer of the 22d ult speaks as fol-
lows o the noble services of General Lane in tho