Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1864-01-23
,hen she would rule this land again


After the adoption of the present Con-
stitution, the parties changed their names,
merely for political effect, for they re-
mained the same in principle, as the Sc
quel will show. The government becom
ing purely Federal on Republican basis,
and the Tories being we'll aware Of the
stigma which their acts had fastened for.
ever upon them, stood ready for a change
as they have ever since, denying and ap.
parently repudiating their former name
and acts as well as their principles,
AS soon as it became certain that the
Constitution would be adopted, they threw
up their hats, and called themselves Fed
eralists, calculating to hide their former
infamy behind new and popular name,
by the popularity of which, they expected
to be able to draw ever to their side
enough Wings to give them the control Of
the new government; and during Wash
ingtons administration they succeeded
They were the popular party, and pre-.
tended to be the exclusive friends of that
good and great man while, in; reality
they were his bilterest enemies. Mr.. JEFF.
ferson says: "That they nearly ruined
his character by hanging theirs upon it,"
They wrote articles for the newspapers of
the day, villifying the President, miscon-
STRUNG his motives and sncering at his
acts, until he became so disgusted, that
nothing but the earnest entreaties of bis
friends prevented him from resgning his
Office. TO these article they would sign
"Republican," to lead him to believe that
that party were his most bitter enemies.
And here it is proper to state that the
Wings, being in favor of a Republican
form Of government, were styled Repub-
licans, out Of derision by the Federals,
and which the latter have twice since
been glad to adopt, and have disgraced it
as often. The Fedcralists accused their
opponents of everything but honesty, the
same as they do in our own day; when
they brand every one a secessionist and a
"sympathiser with rebels" who will not
nod at their biddings and swallow the al
mighty "nigger."
1t has been fully proved that one OF
the clerks in Hamilton's department. OF
the government, was the author Of num-
Der Of the articles above mentioned, and
Hamilton was strongly suspected of being
privy to it. General Washington, by his
great popularity, was elected President
unanimously; he was good Republican
and strongly in favor of the Republican
principles of our Constitution. Mr.. JEFF.
ferson says that he has heard him say re-
peaedly, "that he would loose the last
dropt of his blood to maintain the Repub.
lcan form Of our Constitution against
whomsoover assailed it," But Washing
ton knew no party nor section, he knew
his country and his country only. "In.
forming his Cabinet he chose two from the
North and two from the South. The for.
mer were Hamilton and Knox the lat
ter Jefferson and Randolph Mr.. Jeffer.
son Secretary of State, and Hamilton,
Secretary of the Treasury; and in this po-
sition Hamilton organized his system of
financial corruption. If it should be ask
ed, as it very reasonably might be, why
why it was that Washington, who was
strictly honest and patriotic, appointed
such corrupt man as Alexander Hami.
ton, and kept him in Office SO long, the
answer may be given in two ways. The
first is, that strictly honest men seldom
suspect the integrity Of others; therefore,
Washington being scrupulously honest
himself, did not suspect Hamilton; an old
adage says, "that it takes rogue to catch
a rogue and in all babiIily, Wash
iugton was not at all aware of Hamilt 9
designs. The second answer is, that
Hamilton was aide.de-camp to General
Washington long time during the Revo-
lutionary war, and his friendship for him
was almost unlimited. And it has been
said by some of the friends of Hamilton,
that many Of Washington's letters were
found in Hamilton's hand writing, and
consequently he was the author of them /;
it has been further said by the same, that
letters we're found among Hamilton's pa
per's from General Washington, endorsed
on the back, "Dear Hamilton, put this
in style for me-" Now if this be true, it
accounts for the unlimited confidence Wash.
ton had in him, and it possibly may be
true, for we all know that the Father of
his Country never claimed 10 be q learned
or liter airy man. Honesty was the grand