The Placer herald., 1865-07-01
What kind of a Government.

Freenan's journal leading State Rights
Democratic paper of New York, procIalms
the absolute end Of the great Jeffersonan
doctrine OF State Independence as the main
result OF the war, explicitly, thus:
1t Is now vigorously certain that the po-
lltlcaI system Of winch Thomas jefferson was
the great genius, aud which in clap trap
phrase has been known by the misnomer Of
"Jeffersonian Democracy" has ceased to ex
lst as living political force. There are
EnsIlshmen even yet who quietly profess
Their affection and respect for the House of
the Stuarts There are Frenchmen who still
believe that lleni V. is de jure and ought to
be de tacto King of France. There are Span.
iaids who think their country in bondage,
since the failure Of the CarIisls But in none
OF these instances are the Jacobites OF Eng.
land, or the Boulbonsls of France, or the
Ca'lists Of Spain, living political powers. And
so they are still in these States muliludes OF
true and intelligent 'Jetfersonian Democrats
tut they are not living party. They have
from tins day forth no political force. Were
Thomas Jefferson to come back to life again,
with all his gifts and all his prestige, the ge
MUS would lack the mortal instruments Of
gone. 1t has departed forever. The com
plete triumph achieved by the United States
during the conflict Of the last four years has
settled that question. II The revolu
ton is complete, and we accept it as an ac-
compished fact. We do not hold that it is
wise, or well, or just, or Of good omen for
the future; but we do hold that it is a
fixed and settled fact, past power Of recall
1t is this doctrine of } eff-rson, exert,
ing lis Influence from 1900 to 1860, that we
now recognized to be annuled, and more
over, to have no life no root from which life
may again spring, in the intelects and hearts
Of the overwhelming majority Of the people
of the States. 1t is dead. State Rights
that is, Statehood, may hereafter in future
conflicts be appealed to and acted on. But
it will be new growth from fresh plant
ing. 1t will not be a revival of the party Of
Jefferson. If IN the future a party arises
based on asserting the inherent sovereignty
OF The States, it will find its arguments al,
ready writien-but the party will he new
one-ihe old party is dead. 1t will also BE-
on new issues.
The several States are now no longer as
when the United States Constitution was
formed SUI juris. No State any longer le'
longs AS II dld, to itself Ii belongs to the
Union. The United States now, has come
in possession of sovereign power over the
several States. The States, in fact, are no
longer properly States. At most, they are
estates s-condiions and hereditanents, held
SUBJECT to higher and sovereign power.
Quoting The above, the Greenport Watch
man adds:
We don't care to fully express our own
opinions upon this subject now, choosing
rather to wait the further developments OF
political sentiment which time shall show to
be dominant over the American people; but
we may say that, while convinced of the
imminent danger to which the successful is
sue of The war has exposed the principle Of
State sovereignty, we do not absolutely des
pair of its ultimate preservation. 1t is 10 US
even now an incredible thing that the peo.
pie of this country, after having enjoyed for
sevtnty years an unexampled degree of pros
periIy, happiness aud true freedom, can de-
liberately consent to sacrifice the main foun-
dalon on which their political structure
rested during all that time. When the pas
sions excited 10y war shall have suI.sided,
and the fever OF constant agitation shall have
yielded to the reaclionary influence of such
tremendous realities as the legacies of debt
and taxation left 10y the war, men will again
revert in memory to the haIcyon days when
the simple but grand and benifcent doctrine
of the immortal Jefferson shed manifold bles
sings over all the land, and will bitterly rue
the hour, when in a moment Of great provo-
cation they were tempted to try an expert
ment which has had so terrible series of
consequences as the fatal attempt to coerce
States by force of arms Such at least is
our hope-a faint one we are bound to con
fess-and we shall cherish it even against
hope until time has demonstrated its COM
pele futiliy.
LAND GRABBING "STATEsMEN."-Gove
nor Seabrook's plantation, consisting OF seven
H., R,II',