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cauce, as they then said, it would depopn
late New England and carry power from
=. the Atlantic to the west.
And because Mr.. jefferson approved
the ordinance of 1887, framed under the
confederation and before the constitution
had formed the Union, it is assumed by
modern Republicans" that ne must have
been an aboltionst. They forget that it
was the beloved State of jefferson, stand.
ing at the head of the slayCholding States,
then a majority in the confederation, Etr,
ginia, that was the granting party to that
noble gift and compact Of cession TO the
north. Nor do they choose to remember
that in that same ordinance the statesmen
who made it, wisely comprehending the
adoption Of the territory solely to free la
Dor, carefully preserved the rights Of the
south TO reclaim from that territory all
fugirives from services. A strange pater-
nifty indeed, for those who resist unto blood
and disuniou, that JefferSoniRn compact Of
good faith between the States, since en-
grated. into the constitution and who
now use all their power in legislatures to
nullify the constitution and laws Of the
Union, which they have sworn to support
and maintain.
Now if any young man is desirous Of
knowing to what party Thomas Jefferson
belongs, and to what policy he himself
owes the honor Of being a citizen of these
United States as they are now, second in
power to no nation Of the earth, and su-
perior in good government and private
rights over ell let him take the map of
North America and cross off the acces-
sions Of territory and States made by the
JeiIerSoniun democratic policy since 1902 /;
before Louisiana, Florida, Texas and Cali
fornia were ours. See British America
stretching across the continent from Nova
Scotia to the Pacific Ocean, from New
foundland 10 the Russian settlements, from
Davis Straits 10 the Arctic. See the very
back bone of the United States broken
all west from the mouth of the Mississippi
to Lake Superior; Louisiana, Florida and
Texas, resting on the Gulf of Mexico south,
not our sister States, and our marts of free
commerce, but colonies or dependencies Of
Great Britain; for if Jefferson had not
made the treaty with Napoleon, Louisiana
would have been, in ninety days after, the
conquest Of England with her feet then Oh
the way to wres it from France. Florida,
too, would have fallen from the feeble
hands of Spain to England. Texas, if re-
jected, would have become her dependant
or ally. Oregon would have been parcel
of the new "Victoria" to be formed out Of
the vast possessions of the Hudson Bay
Company. Mexico would have retained
the golden California still desert, and not
a stripe of the American flag would have
touched the endless shores of the Pacific,
or the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Who would now wish TO be an American
with such narrow heritage, bound within
the folds of an overshadowing British EN-
pire in North AmericaY Or that other al.
Tentative Of q great Southern confederation
Of republics, comprising all this rejected
territory with Mexico and Central Ameri-
ca, and guided by the indemitabe states
mauship of our own revolutionary race,
controlling the markets and the industry Of
the world, by holding the great staples OF
that industry in their handsG
Aud that it is not so, we owe it TO the
large policy of Jefferson and his Democrat
ic compatriots There is the history. Read
it, In 1902 Spain owned louisiana, and
We had poor treaty with her for the right
to deposit American goods at New Or
leans. Spain broke the treaty and forbid
the desposit. President jefferson demand
ed redress, and was answered that Spain
had ceded Louisiana to France Napoleon
had no navy to protect it, and England was
about to dispatch her fleets for its conquest.
Thus the purchase of Louisiana from France
was the only measure to secure the free
navigation Of the Mississippi.
Jefferson took the responsibility for DOS
terity and achieved it. On the 28th of Oc-
tober 1903, ANDREW JACKSON, a Senator
from that same Tennessee which New Eng.
land had refused to admit into the Union,
rose in the Senate Of the United Suites,
and moved that the Senate do advise aud
consent to the ratification Of the treaty
made at Paris, April 30th, 1903, between
the United States and the French Repub-
lie, by Robert r. Livingston and James
Monroe, and Barbi Marbos. New Eng
land Statesmen and New England politi-
clans opposed to Jefferson, all opposed it,
What" they exclaimed, pay fifteen mil
lions for a place of deposit for Western
produce? This is indeed insufferable!-
Why, if they have that our New England
lands will become desert from the conta-
gion Of emigration" And then they fell
to ridiculing Mr.. Jefferson and his "Salt
Mountain" in Missouri.
Why, if logic, like malIeable glass, were
not among the lost arts, we might wonder
a little that the dead Jefferson should now
be claimed by party whose living Patri-
arch here in Massachusetts, the venerable
Josiah Quincy, stood at the head of oppo-
sition to that grand JefferSonian policy of