New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-29

September Is. 1915
| Editor Washington Chronicle:
Since INV letter of the first instant IL
YOUR Journal various Democratic Journal
in the North and South have thought
proper to paw their compliments to me
those at the North. with show of reason
and NO little logic. attempting to
break the force of the positions l assumed
and the grave charges made by me against
South satisfying both reason and logic, al
usual, with vulgar epithets. As for the
latter, l leave blackguardsm to black
guards In respect to the former, propose
| now to add q few moro items from the pOiIt
ical history of the country for them to di-
gest.
Thew would claim for the Democratic
party the glories of the Jeffersonian kepub-
floan party under which to conceal the
vices and defOrmties Of the Democracy,
after the manner of the ass in the "Fsble OF
E,op," clothing itself with the lions skin.
Yet the merest tyrO in our political history
knows we'll that the Democratic party 60
nomine never had existence until 1924. IN
der the banner of Andrew Jackson. Prior
to that date the frat and only parties
known under the constitution were Fed
eralists and Republicans. At the close of
the administration Of President Washing
ton these two parties began to assume
organic form, the first under the banner Of
Thomas Jefferson.
In 1900 the first general atruggle between
the two occurred, and Mr.. Jefferson was
elected as President, defeating Mr.. Adams.
In 1904 the contest between these two par
ties was renewed, and Mr.. Jefferson was
reelected. So again in 1908 and 1872 the
struggle continued between them, the Re-
publican party trinmphing in both instances
l oh h0 al md n$
Madison a. President. In 1916 the last is
sue between theee parties was formed,
| again terminating in the triumph Of the
| Republican party through the election Of
Mr.. Monroe ~ President. In 1890 the Fed
ersl party laid down their arms and dis
banded, and Mr.. Monroe was reelected
President without opposition. And nov.
party having, in the course of twenty four
years of rule in the councils of the nation,
established its interpretations of the CON
stituti0n, and ite measures of administra-
tive policy in the government, ended its
mission and disintegrsted.
Two new party formations now took
place, and these were the Democratic
party" under the banner of Andrew Jack
SOD, and the National Republican psrtv.n
under the bonner Of John Quincy Adams, in
view of the Presidency. II is true that the
larger portion Of the Democratic party was
composed of the constituent elements of the
old Jehersonian Republican party, and that
the larger portion of the National Repub-
lican party was composed Of the coustitu
ent elements of the old John Adams Fed.
eral party. But the two new parties, ar
rayed under the banners of Andrew Jack.
son ana John Quincy Adams, were a. dis
tinctive in character az they were in name
from the two old parties, and no historian
of the future will ever suffer the tame of
the Jetfersonian Republican party to be tar
n'shed BY coDtaminating it with the Dem
ocratic party. So much, then, for this as
sumption on the part Of those Democratic
journals which have thought proper to pay
their respects to my letter in the Chronicle.
In the next place it ia we'll known TO I'll |
who are at all accurately versed in the DO |
liticsl history of the country that in 1924 u |
large portion of the old JeffersOnian K pub-
lican party still maintained that Organize |
ton under the banner of William H. Craw. |
ford for the Presidency in opposition both |
to Andrew Jackson and Quincy Adams. 1t
is ALEC well known that, in consequence of
ton by the people, but that election was
thrown into the United States House of
Representatives, where Mr.. Adams was
successful. and that Mr.. Henry Clay be-
came his Secretary of State.
1t is equally we'll known that "The Revo.
lutionary Patriot" a. he is styled In Amer
lean biography, the intimate bosom friend
OF Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry,
Judge John Tyler, was Governor of Viz.
ginia during the last years Of Jeffersons
presidency, and the first of Maidstone.
and his son, John Tyler, after studying law
Under Edmund Randolph, the Attorney
General under Washington, the Secretary
]f State under Jefferson, and the original
Kramer, and hence styled "the Father Of the
Constitution of the United States," and
serving in the Legislature of Virginia i've
sessions during the administration of Pres
dent Madison. was three times elected to
'he United States House of Represen tstives
rom the Richmond district during the ad-
ninistrstiun of President Monroe, uniform.
y sustaining the Republican party, aud |
low in 1S24-25 was Governor of Virginia.
md true to all his politico EDUCATIONAL train
ng, still sustained the Republican party
lnder the banner of Crawford.
1t is again we'll known that after his
Election and reelection to the United |
states Senate-still true to the stern Re-
publican integrity OF his father of Jeffer-
on, of Henry, of r Randolph. of Madison,
nd OF Monroe-he opposed himself with
auntless nerve. solitary and alone. to all
he power and influence of Andrew Jack
on. at the head Of the triumphant Demo
ratio party on the proclamation and force
MI, aud the after measures of that party
n 1888, 1884 and 1885; and that, in 1886, still
the old Republican party as q J
eparate organic alton, he was run as Vice
'resident on the ticket with Hugh Lawson
White as President, against the ticket of
IAN Buren, and johnson on behalf of the :,
Democratic party, and that of Harrison and
'ranger on behalf of the National Repub-
can party.
In this triangular contest Van Buren was .
lected before the people, but there was NO !,
lection at the polls of Vice President,
nd the decision was thrown into the Sem :
70, where the Democratic party, having q | !
lajority, Mr.. Johnson was elected Now i.
Eliminated, during the administration OF ,
[r. an Buren,, ali the evils of the D-moc. :
acy that had been Initiated by Andrew ! i
acksOn, such as l have described in INV | !
liter In the Chronicle; and no man can !
18th truth deny that never before or since ~
az there ever be On known such universe! n
reck and ruin wrought in q time of pro- +,
'nnd peace, or such general and universal n
eruption in the administration as then
reva led. ,,
But as to this more hereafter. At this .
oirt let me not break in upon the narrative o
make plain the Islander Of the slanderera, u
the particular at which am arriving. IL u
as mot surprising that all men of true pa ST
iOtiem should have now allied with each | d
her, even without an amalgam alton Of s
srties, which was the fact, 10 GUST from | Il
'wer these corrupt men and this corrupt | f,
trty Of the Democracy. They had not at Il
mpted to purge themselves of their lotteu | P
,purities. They treated with derision the W
ea Of so doing, and with sovereign con.
mpt the country. If the report of Mr.. T
cretary Woodbury., in control of the | Ct
essury at the time, is turned to it will be W
Oh that, although admitting the full ex a,
Mt Of the embellishments aud defalcations !.
the officers associated with the revenues. L.
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