New-York daily tribune., 1858-08-07

1t ID well accepted secular proveI0 tnos PeoP'o
are beat to be estimated by the company they keep.
We have gospel authority for saying, by their fruits
shall You know them. In judging Of tie claims put
forward for Thomas Jefferson as the special and
even sole apostle of Liberty and Democracy in this
country, net only to the exclusion of all those who
did not see fit to follow in his train, but to their
condemnation as nonarchists and aristOcrats, it
would .eem highly fit and proper not to lay these
important considerations entirely cut Of sight. To
Judge SIr JeTe non BY his creed in which, so far as
mere intellectual acceptance of it went, he
was undoubtedly 8 sincere beIeser, 10 man
YVES more earnest advocate for republican equal
ity; no man was yetemeuty opposed to the
concentration Of political power in the hands OF
wealthy few; no man regarded tho slayeholdiDg
system with greater abkorrence; no man was more
ardent for it's abolition, no man was more deeply
impressed with both the Justice sod expedency Of
allowing to the lsboIug mssses full participation
in political rights ard predominant control over
the administration of the government. AT tho
same time II is an ubdeniabe fact that, in the ac-
tusl bufibess Of party warfare, Jefferson put
Himself at the head Of the slayehoIdiog
interest; thst be, and he alone, enabled
that interest uder the guse OF accepting
his roItical theories, TO obtain . hold upon the
sffcctons and confidence of large body Of the
woiAiIg g people of the Free States, to which they
could reyer otherwise have reached, and that the
Iefult has been that in the name Of Jefferson and
democracy this country is ruled st this moment by
little knot Ct Southern shareholders and Northern
politicians Vho have elevated the perpetuaton and
extension of Slavery, and a. an inevitable conse-
quence tie degradation of Free Iabor with the fun
dinenta We might cay the sole article of their
party political creed.
In JetleI,on's great zea--s zeal. no doubt quite
,incer,-to rescue the laboriDg masses Of these
United States from the domination Of priests, mer
chants, lawyers AID moneyed capitalists, he deliy
e1ed them oveI-ard the National Government
| along with them-bound hand and foot 10 the ten
der merciss Of slaveholding aristocracy in
tertioDally, We readily admit; but such was the
natural re,ult Gf his policy, foreseen and pointed
cut BY aDy Of those cotemporares of bis whom be
denounced ard We are called upon to scoutm mon
srcbsts and Or stocrats. Such was the n,tura and
Inevitable retult Ct the famous revolution Of 99
\ Jefferson delighted 10 esn ia revolution which
teok tie control of the General Government quse
mep, Whetht Of the North OK tie South, by whom
it had zee framed ard set in motion, and trans
rred its administration ard the political control of
AIN oct Il, tie Southern sud OF several Of the North.
ern States TO set Of politicians whose democracy
exhausted Itself in getting up xar with Great Brit
ain which j, iertcn struggled in vain to prevent.
At this u omen. the whole work which Mr. JEFF
ferson Undertook 10 perform remains to be done
over sg.in. Liberty, eq1slity and emar cpstiop, of
which be was SO ardent Gil advocate, are openly
secuted beth North and South BY those who claim
10 he par excellence Jeiersonan Democrats, and
,ueh specially entitled 20 the votes and tie conf
dsuct Of the lsborirg masses Of the people None
| Cf ihose men whom Mr. Jefferson :tismstized, sud
whom or bis authority We are called upon 10
set down as monarchists and Mist,crats,
ever thought Of the doctrine now 80 zeslouslY
| advocated BY ole great section of the Dem
ocraiic party and tscitly admitted By the other,
that Slavery Is the Cornerstone Of republican in
stiiuiior', and tie great pillar which the Union
Iests. Through. Ut tie South the whole theoret-
| ica iys stem cf Nj. Jefferson is ridiculed and set
aside, though &r. Jefeuon himself 10 gratefal
reception of bis powerful aid in transferring The
coLtrsl Of tie General Government into slave
toldirs bands ia still spoken of With certain &c.
sIte If respect The worn. out, dilapid.ted,
vrtcltd coroiiien of MoEti,ello. transferred 70
! The haLds Of ,usrssr, rsy be taken |. t5pe