Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-07-23
.Our Party is as old as the Union.

"Our Party is as old as the Union.
To the Editor Of the Belmont Chronicle:
SIR: have heard the above boast from
Democrats and Democratic Editors, and no
doubt but many belonging to the Demo-
cratic party believe that their party can be
traced back to the foundation of our Govern
ment, aid that their party elected Washing
ton, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Jack
son, and that the permanency of our gov
crnment depends on ,he success of the De-
Rocr attic party. Such should examine the
writings of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe
whom they claim to be the descendants OF,
as well as those Of John @ Adams, and the
old newspapers published in those days.
Those writings should be read, and the HIS
tory of our Country well understood by
every American. Washington il is said was
elected by unan imous vote of the peop le.
Toward the close of his last term parry
arose termed ti-Federalis;s, opposed to
Washington's Administration. Although
many abhor the name of Federal, Washing
ton was one, or his opponents could not
have been Anti FCderaiists. The Anti
Federalists changing their name 10 Repub-
licanS elected Jefferson, Madison and Mon
roe. In the Republican convention OF
Caucus thai nominated Mr. Monroe ia 1916,
Dir. Monro received sixiy FIVE vo es and w
III. Crawford fittv-four v otes for the nom i
HiaiioD as candidates IS .i.u Republican par
y for the Presidency. Had Mr.. Crawford
received few more votes in the convention
he would have been nom mat ted and no doubt
elected President OF the United States, and
would have been considered good Repub
ican. Ia Mr.. Monroe's cabinet we find
John @. Adams Sec. of State, w. H. Craw-
ford Sec. OF the Treasury, and II. Clay was
speaker of the House, all prominent Repub-
licsns. On the l4th of February, 1924 ,;he
Republican convention or caucus, to nomi-
nate candidates for President and Vice-P.c-
sident, was held in Washington City. The
names OF Crawford and Adams were before
the convention, ard w. ii. Craw ord receiv-
ed the Nomination. Crawford was nominal
ed by the Republican party, or by their con-
vention. J. @. Adams, and II. Clay were
each supported for the Presidency by their
friends. Gen. Jackson, who had been elect
ed Governor of Tennessee by the Federlists
who said in a letter 10 Monroe that he had
been Federalist, and had opposed Madison
and MadisUn's Administration, was also sup
ported by his friends. Gen. jackson was
not the nominee Of the Republican conven-
ton. At this election the State of Virginia
voted for w. II. Craw ford. In the House,
four states voted for Crawford, and Virginia
was one of them. Jefferson was opposed to
Gen. jackson. He said that, During his
whole political obs rvation, the disposition
of the American people to elect General
Jackson President, was the single circum-
stance which had shaken his faith, and made
him lear that the American Republic was
soon to follow the fate of all Others
In 1928, hessTs Madison and Monroe
were chysen on the Adams Electoral ticket
of Virginia. Jackson and Adams were the
only candidates iUr the Presidency Now
sir, which was the Republican candidate! /!
was it the Jackson, or Adams party that
elected Jefferson! Was not the old parties
broken up in 1924, and new parties formed
in 1898! Crawford the Republican nomi-
nee was defeated, and ]. @. Adams was
elected by the House. The friends OF Adams,
Jackson, Crawford and Clay, were now or
ganized into Two new parties. Mr.. Van
Buren sid that ali party lines had been
broken up, and new parties formed Sam
Houston says, the Jackson party had two
platforms, the Jackson platform, and the
Calhoun piatlor3l, that the Jackson plat
form was popular for time, but thev have
changed to the Southern or Calhoun plat
form, land that all liberal Democrats have lef.
them. A Democrat that will boast that his
party is as old os the Union, must be either
knave or dupe. He boasts OF what he
knows Is not so, therefore he is a knave, or,
what his leaders tell him, by believing it
without knowing, is duped. But | say to
all examine for yourselves. We should look
to principles not parties, measures not men,
am confident that every liberal man, who
vii examine, will agree lwith me, that the
present sO-caled Democratic party, is not
the party that elected Washington, nor Jel
ferson, Madison, and Monroe, and that it
has changed from the liberal Jackson party,
to the Progressive, Despotic, Pro-Slavery
Locofoco Party. If | understand stae true
definition of the terms, We should all be
Democrats, Republicans, Federalists and
Americans, TO be true Friends to our Coun-
try, and 10 the Union. U. WILSON