The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-05-15
THE TRI-WEEKLY NEWS
Notes OH the Constitution of The United
States.
by D. d. MCREIGHT.
NO. o.
81 will run the machine rs find it.n
81 will run the machine rs find it,"
A. LINCOLN.

Switching off the track at this point,
the opportunity will be taken to consid.
er briefly the causes which led to the
war Adopting The mechanical figure
used by President Lincoln in a speech
OF his made early in The revolution, let
us extend its application
Under the figure of railroad train
in motion, the political history Of the
Government will be hurriedly pictured.
The Constitution is the track, the Gov.
crnmcnt the engine, the Executive the
engineer, Congress the conductor the
Supreme Court the regulator and the
people the passengers. (The reader can
imagine what he peases as the train.)
The powers granted IN the Constitution.
or prohibited by it to the States, will an
swer for the schedule and the States the
Directors.
THE PRIMARY CAUSE.
The first cause of the war is to be
found IN the origin Of the Company.
The directors adopted almost unanimous.
ly The schedule, but as they were dvid.
ci into two parties there arose dis.
pntc as to which party should get the
patronage Of the road. There vas n
margin implied in the adopted schedule,
and of course there was maximum and
minimum speed. And upon these the two
parties respectively based their claims
One party contendedshat the train should
he rnn at maximum speed, that con
slant strain should be kept OH the ma
chincry so as to increase more and more
the prohibitory feature Of the schedule,
and force compliance on the part ofthe
directors as 10 its superiority. The
'oiker party alleged that such course
Would endhnger the whole enterprise,
and That therefore the minimum speed
should prevail, or at least medium one,
which is also called Il conservative
speed. The 6rst party was. known
as Fcderalists, the second anti. Fed
eralists. Washington and Adams
were the acknowledged leaders of the
former. and Jefferson of the latter
In the first issue the high. h.pressurc
party officcred the road, and Washing
ton went in as engineer This was in,
1889. In 1893 the same party was
again successful. But by 1897 the
'low'pressure party had acquired sufa.
'cent strength to get in Thomas Jcffer.
son MS assistant engineer (Vice'Pres
dent.) And in 1901 this party got the
'asccndancy, by actually putting Jeffer-
son mas engineer. Thus for twelve
years the strain was kept upon the ma.
chnery, not however without danger to
the whole train, as witness the alien and
sedition laws.
From Jefferson down to Buchanan
the low pressure party got the patron
aye vi h'e ToHu. LII tne meantime me
opposing parties had vacillated in their
titnlar characteristics, il not in their
principles. AS soon the high pressure
party lost the patronage of the road,
they charged the other party with put
ting too mucn strain on the machinery.
Under the government OF Adams, she
engineer of the high pressure party,
that party justified the utmost strain,
Under the engineering of Madison. the
leader ofthe low pressure, the same par
ty charged the managers OF the road
with the utmost disregard Of the sched.
ule In straining the machinery.
The transmorphoses undergone by
ths higl.prcssnre party were from the