New-York daily tribune., 1858-08-02

! e.v,rg the B'saop OF O,usbargn - bre'asi o
Ge,rgs III for our Kiss. Tie f.,'- her, c.le'
aye 10 v:.e cou1 ecisJ. ether ~ NJ. Jefsr')a or
ki. b, 2rspher, VITA tie great party which opposed
Mr. Jslferso,. election. Ou TIE oon.rs-y iaere s
yely .t;opg reIs,.ye evidence "a. 10 'uca con-ec
ton can have existed. For tA>se portions o; TIE
| Uricn New York ard SOU h Carolina u waicA
Tcryisu wss s.ioDgssliL 15-'2 we're Strongly Jsier'
.ou;sn 4 ausrter Of 4 century later, All s'.ualy
tu,rej ,ae scae his f,oT m the great corse'! Of
l3oo. Tbs Guy with the Lous I'!sai Ccu1t.s' were
quietly Loyal through nesrly ST. the Revolutionary
..,usole. and these aaye the Electoral Vote Of the
State TO Jefferson and Burr. Most csrislnly We
would lot ASSERT thst tae precise individuals Tao
xers Ter.ss here in - were Republicans ID %:
bat the law which convert. tae Tory under
mop,rcbv into democrat IN republic DaVe'y
plain ore. The coulter of the Sovereign Myesty
becores the cou-ter G! tte Sovereign People
cbspsirp not hs faith but merely It's object. II
t.g.cious. Re may worship tie rising. but i 70
qvres only tie Instinct Of praeen:e srd an eye %
the main chance to worship the risen sun. H.
ther. the LIST which Mr.. Randall aludes to OF
County should ever be published, and genealose'
duly traced tterefrom, We are confident /: VII be
fourd that msicrity Of those surviving IN loo'
then ranked as Republicans, While their descend
ants at this dsy proclaim themselves Democrats
On tie other band If is notorious that Massachusetts
srd other .tropsbolds of Whiggism in l'75, were
iLterse,y Federal in l79e-lS00. That m,jority
tav0 ar n 81 I 4
trciion as Wings during the Revolution were Eel
erslists in 1900, We presume will not be disputed
We state this, not to exLt cns bysone party nor
depre.s smother, but because the contrary 'cleary
implied in Mr.. RMdalls book.
III. That there was large msjority OF the intel'
leent dtriois Of 1887 IL tiyor 81 stronger
central or FEDERAL government than then existed no
ole can doubt. The necessity for such govern
mert was demonstrated as clearly as any ABSTRACT
proposition ever can be. That some oil tnese-and
Alexander Hamilton foremost among them-"ould
have preferred stronger central government toan
wss actually formed in l7S7 is very true. Inc
utter impotence into which the Confe deration hal
fallen its bankruptcy, the most universally felt and
then recognized want of power to protect the IN
du.tIy of tie country agsinst destructive for
eign competitou the consequent prevalence ol
dleness ard Insolvency, the wortalessne's OIL
all existing paper currency and scarcity
or absence of any other, all exploding IN ths1
miserable affair known as Shay's Rebellion,
might we'll have excused despair OF the present
ard temporary willingness to welcome any piac-
ticabe alterI atiye such AZ France come years
later sought for anarchy and insecurity in the more
than regal sway of Napoleon. 1t is OF course easy
to pick out Of some hundreds Of volumes OF the
correspondence and other writings of alarmed and
discouraged actors on the stage of public affairs
passages which seem to despair Of the republic
and look to monarchy for rescue from Overwhelm-
ing embarr sssments ard an1ietes The recollec-
tiops and inculpations of political adVersares aud
especially of those who, like Madison In '9o and
John Quincy Adams ten years later, had changed
their party relations and naturally desired to find
or nsgnfy reasons for so doing, would usually
afford evidence til more convenient and less relia
ble Mr.. Jefferson, to whose attainment OF the
hiabest donors it WAS essential that there should
be a widespread belief that the leading federasts
were at heart monarchists and who did not scruple
ir eton in bis bill of attander, would naturally be
inclined TO that notion 1t is not necessary to the
Justice of this view to impeach his sincerity. In
defiance of all that is said by skeptics about belief
OF uDbelief being involuntary, therefore deserving
reither praise nor blame, men do practically be-
lieve in coed part what they desire to be true and
discredit its opposite. word dropped here, q
L Il th.va tan haf
ustifes suspicion but does not necesslsate convic-
hoD, will serye as groundwork for large fabric
of belief when such belief sccords with the die
tatts Of interest and incllnstiOn.
III. Against the accusations which assaed the
FedeIalists and doubtless contributed 10 their down.
fall-aceusatons which Mr. Randall reviyes and
rather msgnifes than otherwlse-stand these indis-
putable and overwhelming facts:
j. The leading Federalists thus lneulpated had
nearly or quite all borne active part on the pa
trotic side in the then recent and arduous Revolu-
tiODsry strugge-a struggle which in its very
essence involved the distinctive principles os Royalty
and Republicanism. Is it credible that, having
Just thrown of, at terrible cost, the yoke of
royalty, they Immediately set about reimposing it
.. The per,Ons from whose casual essays, conf
Dental correspondence, and social conversation, 1t
bas been found possible to extract bit here and
oft there to sustain the theory Of Federal leaning
to monarchy, comprised but a small portion of the
influential Federali.ts Of their time; and, even if
they could be held 10 inculpate themselves, could
not Justly be cited to lmplcate others.
D. Men are to be fairly judged only by their av-
eIoge work and its drift-not by hasty and casual
expression which may seem to contradict thSs