The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-08-04

The Political Course OF JeMersoa and
Acknowledgements OF the shent-Per-
silent Organ.
The organ Of the shent-per-shent democracy
in this city has been for several days past in
dulging In all manner of wild assertions in re-
ference to the early history of the country.
The ignorance manifested by the editors of that
sheet is somewhat remarkable, and it Is quite
evident that they obtain their version of the
early political events in this country from. the
same unreliable source from which their party
leaders obtained the facts which caused them
to proclaim at the Chicago Convention that the
war had been failure. The rigmarole about
the policy Of Jefferson and the doctrines of
Adams are all trash. Neither their facts nor
deductions are correct in regard to either of
these great men. II is no wonder that the de-
mocratic party has been in the wrong and has
lost it's power when it has for its organs such
ignorant writer's in regard to plain facts of
history as has been exhibited in the World for
the last three or four days
All who have carefully studied the events of
the early history of this country, and read the
writings of the unbiased historians of those
days. understand that there were certain ele-
ments of jealousy which operated upon the
minds of the people, and to greater or less
extent controlled political events. Those
elements were sympathy with France
and England and hostility to the lat
ter. The war of the Revolution left
a strong feeling of friendship for France, and,
in fact, warm sympathy for that nation in her
contest with England, which continued for
years after we had gained our independence
The policy Of the elder Adams gradually
tended against the popular sentiment, and,
under the New England sentiment, began
to adopt a course which was characterized
as English in its features. The Alien
and Sedition laws were unquesti9nably
English in their character. Jefferson, on the
other hand, visited France, and came home
strongly impressed with that nation, even to
friendship for the Jscobins, He found here, on
his return, strong sympathy in the same d.
rection among the people, and bitter hostility
against England, which had existed ever since
the war for our independence. He took advan-
tage Of this circumstance, appealed to the preju-
dices of the people, and opposed the English
tendency of the policy of Adams and on that
was successful. The denunciation of the alien
and sedition schemes, and the cry offederalism,
was only used az evidence that Adams was in
sympathy with England. This was the turning
point and the key note of the contest 1t is
further shown by the course of the Adams
party in New England at a later period, when,
in the second war with England, they held their
Hartford Convention, and opposed the admins
tratt0n OF that day. -~- ss~-- "sssS1-''r~
If the ignorant chaps Of the World will care
fully read the early history of this country,
they will see that the doctrines of State rights
had no power at that time, nor any more to do
with the defeat of Adams and the success Of
Jefferson, than tie abolition party had upon the
politics Of the country when Arthur Tappan or
ganized his FIRST anti-slavery society. The
State rights resolutions were passed in Ken
lucky and for the purpose of mere buncOmbe
They did not rise to the importance Of an issue,
even in that State They were hardly thought
Of until years after, when the sectional agita-
ton began to take form, and then they were
unearthed by some of our latter-day demo-
gogues, and were made an issue, a. against the
negro agitation of the North. State rights doc
trine is of a more modern platform than the
period when Jefferson upset the Adams dynasty,
and the attempt of the World editors to prove
to the contrary only reveals their ignorance Of
the plainest facts of history. The theories and
dogmas Of the extreme State sovereignty school
Of politicians, of which Calhoun was the
master spirit, has been exploded by this
war, and the indications are that federalism
and Capitalization will receive their final quietus
through the administration of President John
son. And thus our war for the preservation of
the nation will settle all those heresies and put
an end to their agitation, we trust, finally and
forever.