The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-04-22
sTRoUDsBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA, APRIL %, 1875
his letter to the Manhattan Club after the

hA' iStNCl W IEc -hdiIdItdu NluD dltCi INC
New York election. DIr. Eaton has now
made speech in the Senate 1t is grave
misfortune for a mere politician, of what
ever local reputation, to be transferred to
that arena. IF he speaks, the whole coun-
try hears, and, despite the expressive sill
cnce or the Jealous praise of his party, or
gans, he is measured by the public judg-
ment as surely as new boy at school by
his comrades. Mr. Eaton's speech shows
conclusively y that he is bitter, narrow,
unintelligent partisan, and nothing more.
lie was "Copperhead" during the war,
and he has all the spirit and tone of his
class. Wholly unimportant in himself, he
Is nevertheless the representative of party
that aims to control the government. He
is the chosen leader of those who are now
appealing to the people of Connecticut to
restore the Democratic party to power, and
his views must be accepted as those of his
associates and followers.
The substance of his speech was a de-
claration, reiterated and repeated, that the
States of the Union are sovereign. 1t is a
rather useless discussion since a war of
four years has decided that they are not
so. Mr.. Eaton said his assertion that the
States were sovereign and Independent"
was not heresy when Madison lived He
is mistaken. Mr. Madison said, in the
Convention Of 1877, 'The States never
possessed the essential rights of sovereignty;
these were always vested in Congress" J"
He went on to say that their voting as
States, even in the Congress Of the old
Confederation, was no evidence Of sover-
eignty. \ sovereign power which can not
declare war or make peace with other SOW
erign powers, or coin money or conclude
treaties, or which, having delegates those
powers at itesovereign will, can not at that
will resume them, is very absurd sovereign
power. If it can resume them Jefferson
Davis and his cenfederates were correct in
asserting that secession was the right of a
sovereign State When Mr.. Eaton on the
points of this very simple dilemma, his
writhing was pitiful. He attempted to ex-
plain that the State were sovereign, and
the Senate very properly laughed, and Mr.
Eaton said that he did not feel we'll That
was precisely what Davis and his men said
after desperate attempt to put Mr.. Eaton's
doctrines into practice
This is the reform Democracy" The
party succeeds in electing a Senator from
New England, and he begins by protesting
his allegiance to the Virginia and Ken
lucky resolutions and the dogmas by which
secession and rebellion We're defended. He
succeeds in proving to the intelligent peo-
pie of this country that the Democratic
party is the same old party whose danger
ons fallacies Webster exposed forty years
ago, and which still petinaciously clings to
the opinions upon which it defended, slav-
cry, and which logically justified nullifca-
ton and rebellion While it sends to the
Capitol from this part of the country Sena-
tors who, like Mr.. Eaton, proclaim these
principles, it sends from Missouri and
Georgia Senators who, like Messrs. Cock
rell and Gordon, maintained them in the
field. Are such men more likely to ad-
minister the government according to the
principles established by the war than those
who sustained the war and won the vic
tory?
Mr.. Eaton succeeds Governor Bucking-
ham, who was one Of the most devoted and
patriotic Of the war Governors Does any
intelligent American not utterly blinded
by partisan fury suppose that it would have
been better for Connecticut and the coun-
try if Mr.. Eaton had been Governor in
stead Of Mr.. Buckingham ? Why should
it be imagined that a Tory of the Revolu-
tion would have been a safer guardian Of the
government founded upon the principles of
the Revolution than Son of Liberty :?
That is a question which the voters of Con-
necticut have to ask themselves now. For
what reason should Dir. Eaton and Gen
erals Gordon and Cockrell, enemies of the
principles and objects of the war, hostile to
the amendments and the settlements, as
serting that the States are sovereign and
Independent" be preferred in the control
of the government to those who deny the
sovereignty of the States, who hold to the
national supremacy of the Union, and who
believe that the amendments are just and
should be entered ?-Halper's' lI'eehly
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