The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-07-16
From the New York World. /,
The Old Issue. -s. e.

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Hamilton and J Jefferson were the respec-
tive apostles of different creeds. In accor-
tdance with their theories. Hamilton was
more inclined to fear Decentralization, anG
Jefferson Capitalization. Hamilton wanted
government to be felt. in. every action, o
mems lives. Jefferson held that it should
influence private life as little as possible
The two different systems, born with the
Constitution, have continued to fix the DIFF
ference between parties to this day. They
must continue antagonistic to the end
The distinction between the Whig and
Democratic parties was simply of this ma
/ ture. The first proposed to make prosper
lty by Government measures, by public i'm
provement at public expense, by tariffs, and
by currency. Thel last insisted that pros
perity makes itself, and cannot be made
That government influence and Legislative
acts merely injure instead of beneftting.-
That they were bad in themselye, tving
legislation to peculiar interests, which gen
crates corruption Bad in their effects, be-
cause to benefit one man by legislation COM
pels injustice to some other; and bad in
their results, because favored enough for
its appetite, and the com petition for favor
unnaturally diverts capital from less favored
interests, until the home is worse than for
.eign rivalry. We do not suppos q. that up
on subjects which admit of so much dis
pute, men of the generation which argues
them will ever agree, but the great mass of
mankind, sth e jury, gradually comes to the
correct conclusion. The old Federal lprin-
ciples modified from much of their acerbity
made the Whig party. The old Federal
principles, in all their original virulence,
make the Republican party. We hear now
of ;oI,a -,
gov overnment, which characterized the stormy
Administration of Adams, and we see TOO
that same disintegration of party going on
which marked the later years of that ADJ
ministration. There are moderate and vio--
lent Republicans, men who propose to carry
their principles a certain length and men
who propose to carry their principles to all
lengths. The difference was marked in the
last session of Congress. There were men
willing to stretch the Constitution and men
willing to disregard it, men willing to make
the Executive complete despot and Con-
gress body with unlimited power: aud men
willing only to. make him a, semi-despot
ana anxious to fix. some Limitations to leg
islative power. Senators Trumbull and
Doolittie, at Chicago, lately illustrated this
split. Not that Mr.. Trumbull, had any
more love of constitutional liberty than
Mr.. Doolittle, but that he had more pre-
science. He saw in the signs of the times
that the policy advocated by his brother
Senator must Inevitably lead to civil war.
He saw that, though men would endure
much insolence, much misgovernment, and
much suffering. though they would pardon
and adjourn the consideration of
many wrongs to some period more propi- |
tious for puuishm ent, there was a point,
equally of honor and safety, beyond which
they would not back, and that conflict to |
which the miseries of the present war would |
be trifiDg might be-inaugurated at any mo-
ment. Our Republican friends must dis |
tinctly understand that though Democrats
may be careless of insult. and may waive |
to violations of the Constitution |
which can be redressed hereafter, there are |
some rights guaranteed by that Instrument |
inherent and malienable too. which they |
will not surrender, and which we do not |
shink they can be made to|surrender. aaoL |
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