Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-01-18

tracing their line from Jefferson,
through Monroe. Jackson and Buchsn-
an even down to johnson. They talk,
too, with equal rbodomOntade about
the 'time-honored principles" Of the
party. commencing with the States
rights theories of Jefferson and cul-
minatipg in the practical secession dog
mas Of JEFF Davis In short, Democ-
racy processes. into whatever disrepute
it may now have fallen. to have a rec
ord of which 1t has a right to be
proud But we opiDe that experience
proves it not always best to take its as
sertions on trust and that a careful ez-
animation Of its history will show that
some of its principles have been any
thing but infaIlible and some Of its
boasted saints anything but immaeu-
ulate. Like individuals vain Of their
ancestry, Democracy will find after
such examination that, as SAKE admon-
ishes. it would do well to restrain its
vanity Ia tracing the course Of its an
tecedents by an apprehension that its
-.Boastcd line
May end 10 a loop o. stronger txiue
"Fbat oIagued some worthy relation
As nearly as can now be ascertained
the Democratic party was brought into
existence about the year 1898. Wash
ingtou was at that time in the first year
of his second term of Office. Entirely
contrary ;o his own wishes he had been
induced to accept a denomination aud
election solely on account Of the rep
reseDtations Of leading men Of the
country that his iucumbeuey for a sec
ond term was urgently demanded by
the interests Of the young Republic
But no sooner had be entered upon
its duties than annoyances and diff
culties began to fhicken in his path
These chiefly grew out of the dissen-
sions in bis Cabinet between Hamil-
ton. the greatest man Of his time next
to Washington, and the embodiment
of the idea that our government was a
strong central power indivisible and
iudestruetible, and Jefferson who in p
series Of essays attempted to maintain
a dangerous sovereignty for the States;
an idea he embodied In his Kentucky
notification resolutions which the De-
moeracy of this State refused the 9th
er day TO put in their platform on ae-
count Of their inevitable secession
dogmas, and which we're practically IL
Illustrated in the notification Of South
Carolina, the whiskey rebellion in
| Pennsylvania and the great pro-sla-
very rebellion of 1861 General Ham
lton insisted upon the paramount au-
thority of the General Government
which Jefferson construed into a lean
ing toward monarchy. The latter be-
came a red hot republican insomuch
that he even rallied at the simple form
alities of Washington receptions as
| being two monarehical and aristOcratic.
Jealous of Hamilton he criticised with
untiriDg bitterness all bis financial
measures including his plan for fund
ing the public debt which was approv-
ed by Washington, aud misrepresented
him on every occasion as an extreme
and aristocratic monarchist Hamil-
ton, by whose Judgment more than of
any other Cabinet officer the policy of
of Washington's administration was
moulded, replied to these animadver-
sions with an eloquence and force of
logic which finally drove Jefferson
from the Cabinet and into private life.
These discussions, participated in
by the people, became truly annoying
to the noble and magnanimous nature
of Washington. Approving in the
main General Hamilton's political ide-
as he soon became an object of per-
souaI attack by JefFerson's s partisans.
The organ of the J Jeffersonian, or Dem
ocratic party, was the National Ga
zette published by one Philip Fre-
neau, an underling of Jefferson s at
whose hands he received an appoint
ment and a salary from the administra-
ton. Freneau's sheet teemed with
violent personal attacks not only up
on Hamilton, Knox aud the rest of
the Federalists but upon Washington
himself Jefferson was justly held
responsible for these inasmuch as
FreneaU was retained IN his employ,
and it was charged upon good evidence
that some of the severest articles came
from his pen.
At this time the French Revolution
was in mid career and the popular
sympathies were strongly engaged in.
its favor The assistance given the
American patriots by Lafayette and
D'EstaiDg in throwing off the yoke Of
Great Britain naturally awakened a
reciprocal sentiment toward the liber-
alists of France in their endeavors to
crush the monarchy of Louis Six
teenth The entire sympathies of
Jefferson were enlisted in favor Of the
Jacobins, whose cause he advocated
with extraordinary zeal. ESQ much
for the epithet 'Jaeobin" so often and
so ignorantly hurled at Republican
Unionists of to-day by the pFofessed
followers of Jeferson.l He consider
ed them republican patriots bent on
the establishment of a free oonstitu-
ton. He urged with great vigor the
armed intervention of our government
n their favor. He charged all who
opposed this measure, meaning partic-
ularly Washington and Hamilton,
with not only symDathizing with mon
archy in France and elsewhere, but
designing to convert our own Consti-
tuition into despotism. Freneau's
paper reiterated these charges. 1t.
teemed with slundcrouS attacks upon