Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-09-02
The Principles OF Jefferson.

Nothing can be more plain than that the
editors Of Republican papers believe the
rank and file Of their party to bc no stupid
that they will believe everything which they
tell them. Who would believe, when the
Declaration Of Independence is in every
house, and every voter may read il, that
the conductor Of newspaper would have
the audacity to assert that Thomas Jcffer.
son would favor the establishment Of negro
suffrage at the point Of the bayonet in
States where the people are almost unani.
mously opposed to it, and that to establish
negro equality, he would have sacrificed
every important principle Of our national
constitution The Pittsburg Guseite does
this; but it does not tell its simple readers
that Jefferson, as well as most of the lead.
ing men who adopted the Declaration, were
shareholders. How tho wretchcd dema.
gogue who makes opinions for the Repub.
licans Of Allegheny county presents Jeffcr-
sons views may be seen from the following
extract:
Among the truths which our country de.
clared to be selfevident on the day in which
it took its place among the nations of the
earth this stands first and chief:
"ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL"
This was no rhetorical flourish, as slave.
holders subsequently contended, but the
deep and settled conviction Of the great and
generous men who signed the Declaration
of Independence, as it certainly was that of
Thomas Jefferson, who originally drafted
that eloquent and solemn state paper.
1t is true that some men we're ut that day
in the condition of slavery and no man
then living more sincerely lamented that
fact than Thomas Jefferson, as his writings
abundantly attest, and with almost pro-
phetic ken he fore saw and spoke of the I'M
pending wrath Of heaven on account Of the
great wrong II tremble for my country"
he said, when l remember that God is
just" We have seen and felt what he
feared.
How the innocent readers Of the Gazette
would stare if the editor of that paper should
have the candor, to tell them that Jeffer-
sons views Of government were the same
as these Of Calhoun and Jefferson Davis,
and that the Declaration Of Independence
justifes the resistance Of the southern rebels
to the Federal authorities in the recent war !;
and yet it would be but simple truth it would
tell. 1t is careful not to say that Jefferson
enunciated, in the Declaration Of Independ.
ence, the principle that governments de'1re
their Just po,oers only from the consent Of The
governed; and that when any people believe
themselves to be oppressed by any form of
government, they hare the riyhtto change It,
and substitute for it another one in accord
ance with their own views.
1t is not possible to find in the English
language document which more plainly
and palpably condemns the whole course Of
the Republican party towards the southern
rebels than the Declaration Of Independence
does and yet the Republican editors, pre-
suming upon the gross ignorance and in
durated stupidity Of the voters of their party,
have the impudence to tell them that the
very document made use of by the rebels to
justify their rebellion sanctions Radical tyr
amy. Such dcmagogues are constantly
boasting Of the intelligence Of the Republi-
can party.-Daily Nc,cs.