The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-05-28
MR. JEFFERSON or NEW PARTIES AND oBEDI-
ENCE TO THE WILL OF THE MAJORITY.

ENCE TO THE WILL OF THE hAJuhiils
The Hartford Convention Of the schemes Of the
past divide the Union and the Connecticut wings OF the
crescent dag remind that they have not forgotten the
example Of the ederass Of yore There can be no doubt
that the discounted leaders Of northern whggey bank
rupt and broken by their last attack upon the Union and
now lower down in the scale than ever viii sound every
depth Of fanatcsm and to every expedienb TO nan
the flames Of northern preadiees so as to build up
party in the free States whose batte-cry win be hostility
TO the South To this end all the energies Of such men as
Seward and Sumner seepessly directed This is the
sequel contemplated by the reasonable resolutions of the
wings Of Connecticut Democrats invited TO participate
in these preparations How many viii listen to the prof
fers Of these enemies of the repGbie2 How many win go
of from the organization which stretches from to
ocean binding almost world together in the embrace Of
an uudying creed and seek the refuge of inay in the
limited atmosphere of New England cabai which would
see the whole white put the sword carrying out
the experiment of suddenly freeing the blaoks Let dem
ocrats choose The door Of abolition is open and they
may enter; but beyond that fatal threshold they
viii be lost alike TO shame and TO rescue
There is much pertinence and applicability to present
events and especially the resistance the will
of the majority in the popular branch Of Congress- and
the proposed plan of party in the following
and dated Monticello April l6 1904 that we transcribe
for perusal and preservation. He says
" conversation you federal scheme
aoat of forming coalition between the federass and
pubcans of what they call the eastern States The
idea to and after time for reflection had
opportunity OF conversng with you again. The Jdera
kno they Jorerer Their object, there
FORE how to return power under other FORM I'm
doubedy, they have but meansrhich 10, dpiie the
republicans, oi" the minority, AND BARTER WITH THEM ron
THE THEIR NAME. say join the minority, be-
the majority Of the republicans needing them will
not buy them. The minority having other of
ruling the majority will give price for auxliaries, and
at price be principle 1t is true that the ederaists,
needing their numbers Also must also give aprice and prn
cple the they must in Thus bastard system of
will rise the of the true prn-
cples of revolution And when this party is formed,
who will constitute the majority of it. which majority then
to dictate? Certainly the federaists" = 'Is it
possible that real republicans be gued by such bait
And what? What do they wish that they have p?
federal measures That is impossible. Republican
ures 2--have they them not?
.sBt do they that their ndpidua piH shall govern the
aoriyf They may purchase qualification this unjust
wish, for little time, great price, but the fedealists
have the passions Of other if after getting thus
into the of power they suffer themselves be governed
by their minority This minority may say that whenever
they relapse into their principles they will quit
and draw the seat from under them They may quit them,
indeed but "a the all The reaai oM associated
eith them, and W giee them majority sufficient to Keep them
place, and 10 enable them to eject the heterogeneous friends
BY hose aid they get again poer believe that
real republicans will enter into this trap and IL they do
do not believe they carry c them the Of
advancing steadily them union Of principle
with their brethren will be found in this in all similar
cases that crooked schemes will end their
authors and coaduto in disgrace, and that hs alone ho
,caks strict and upright and who in matters Of opinion will
be conented that others should be free himself
aUEscE OPINION ovERRULED, will attain
his object in the end And that this may be the conduct Of
us all, offer my sincere prayers" &c.
The immortal sage when he wrote this, half century
ago. seemed to have raised the veil of the future and to be
anticipating with prophetic soul the which
taking shape around Can one hesitate to believe
that he who always recoed from the schemes of the east
demagogueshe who repoed entirely upon the pop
ular will and the popular virue-would be alive,
be found where he found in 1904 when Immediately
after his great triumph in the organization of Louisiana he
found his administration threatened and beSe by the
influences which sssa that of Franklin Pierce? His
language, eloquently opposite and pointed,
for itself