The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-10-31

SUPERVISION over NS ColnfnnS wnCn " so SppctdiIy
needed in "independent' journals during the heat of
political canvass.
Garticld's A Admiration OF Hamilton aUd
what Hamilt0n's Doctrine Meant.
To the Editor Of The Sunday Herald:
Fisher Ames, the leader of the New Eng
land Fcdcral,sts wrote the following letters to his
friends against the election Of the Democratic cand
date, Thomas jefferson, for President In 1900:
AUGUST L. isoo.--Thomas jefferson will surely
| be elected President unless all New England
will unite for Adams and Finckncy. The Fed
| eralists In the South fully rely on our cooper
alton, leaving 1t as the Constitution has unfor-
tunately left 1t, to chance to decide the issue.
II South Carolina should be anti, think jefferson
win stand chance to be chosen In spite Of the united
opposition Of all the Fcherass throughout the United
States If that State should he Federal there Is
some hope then Federal candidate can be elected
without their cooperation The same crisis now, and
South Carolina must help the Fcdcralists
Aueusr.-I sec almost no chance Of preventing the
| aged by Governor Mexican and Governor Dallas TO
throw ITS whole weight Into that SCALE The question
ts o @ we s s we "y II @ 'EM ike n%u
| the stronger Tor our fail.
| In 1895 he writes
| The thanksgiving has keyed up the public mind 10
Federalism Dr. Smith sermon is literally subscribed
Feds. must join or die watch and pray. saw vir-
g'na. Federal party is certainly rising mp there,
nope, anu my in'ormah,s were aos.u.ey y, @ ser, %
gress, four ut least OF the nineteen Amen. Jefcr-
will not have all the votes In virginia for fres
dent. The same hope now.
DECEMBER s, 1796.-Who Ia to he President is yet
the puzzle. If Mr. Pinckney has the Eastern vote
twothlrls Of them, many believe he Will be Presi
chance Of the three ills being Vice would be for
midable evil, II his pride would let him take 1t.
DECEMBER IL, I7o6.-Itis now taken for certain
that MIR. Adams will he Presidents: but though Jetfer
| son cannot he President lie may be Vice, which
would he disastrous. Combining the ants and stand
Chief Magistrate by his own. Two Presidents, like
two suns In the meridian would meet and jostle for
| four years and then Vice would bc first. T,ue
prophecy.
| To Christopher Gore:
| MY DEAR FRIEND: You Will hear with surprise
and grief the event OF the election. Thomas Jefer
son is President and the Federalists sgmaized
British faction Hamilton Is obnoxious and perse-
cued by popular Camors, In which Federalists, to
their shame, ion
| You will note at once that the Federalists had not
one objection at that day to Southern stakeholder
| for President from South Carolina If he were
only Fedcralist Thomas jefferson wrote the Dec
laraton OF Independence with the phrase, ''we
hold these truths he evident, that all
created equal, and, although they acknowledge that
they have waded through the blood Of a million Of
men to carry ont that ''idca" of Jefferson, they
would not allow the author of that idea to rule over
this nation. To-day they will not permit any to
rule this nation who doubts their assertion that Jeier
son In this Immortal Declaration Included the negro
race. Now, the truth Is before ms that the very
party to-day claiming this Interpretation of that Dec
laration prosecuted Thomas jefferson and the party
with him for believing the doctrine that all white
are created equal. Hear Mr.: Ames. the great leader
of the Federasts In the nation, next to Alexander
| Hamilton, 1906:
OF all Thomas Paines writings, none perhaps has
| created more agitation and alarm than that which
: procaims that all men equal. His writings
abound with this sort OF specous talseoOds ami per-
= verted truths. With opinions wild, the spirit OF
Democracy has been suhllmated to extravaganza.
all the citizens of Republic have an equal right
political power This Is called republicanism. Al
the rights and equality they admire are destitute Of
rational security, and OF nature utterly sub
yersye Of true liberty. But this, the people told
their great cause In opposition to the Federal aris
T tocrats OF America and to the tyrants OF Europe.
You perceive that Mr.. Ames Is sorry to know tina
Hamilton Is obnoxious, and complains that the Fed
eralists stigmatzed British faction. Wha
the therefore, Listen to Alexander Ham.
iltOn himself lie says In the Convention which
Y framed the Constitution:
believe the British government forms the bes
model the world ever produced. All communities
Q divide themselves into the few and many. The few
the rich and well born; the others the mass o
the people. The voice of the people Is said to be thu
voice OF God, but 1t Is not true in fact. The peop
= are turbulent and changing They seldom Judge q
saTe IN ss n
cannot have good Executive on the Democratic plan
See the excelency Of the British executive.
+ DO these arguments OF AieAliiueT Iiaituh apIca
to favor the Idea that all white men created equal
No; the rich and well born were to rule over America
: and hereditary arisOcracy like that In England
would have been established II Alexander Hamilton
r. policy had prevailed. British King and House o
! | Lords also would be ruling our country
- Jefferson wrote to Gen. Washington, September
1892, In to charges against him by Hamilton
, that he not In favor Of our Constitution befor
the amendments added thereto, being then Sec
:. retary OF State long letter exposing Hamilton
plans as Secretary OF the Treasury, only an exrac
n from which can lie given here. Ho says:
e No man in the United States, suppose, approve
of every title In the Constitutions no one, believe
% approved more OF II than did, and more OF 1t wa
J., certainly disapprovea Of by my ace,ser than me, an
3. letter wrote the subject win bs proof, and for
own Justification must TAX you with tho reading q
them when return S,a to wnsIe they S are YSa W
that It wanted bill Of rights, securing freedoI
OF religion, freeom Of the press, freedom from stand
Ing armies, trial by jury and constant habeas cor
n pus act. Col. HaniltOn's objection was that
in wanted a King and House Of Lords lie wished III
" General Government should have power To make Law
binding the States In all eases whatsoever. Ou
country has thonght otherwise.
er Would Jefferson have dared to make such a stat,
A. ment as that to Washington had 1t not been true
I'd And now In 1850 who avow themselves the disciple
t. Of Hamilton but the Republican party; and wi
cling To the principles Of jefferson but the Demo-
to racy2 The first for monarchy, aristocracy, and
House of Lords; the latter for free government
MS no King but the peope-in short, Dcm"rac!
an Goyerneur Morris, In writing to Robert walsl
N. says;
NJ, Col Hamilton never failed, every OCCASION to
~ vocate tho excellence and ay0w his attachment
monarchy. Iedisliked the Constitution of the Unit,
We States, believing all republican government IN
an radically defective. But ic well knew that his favo
nv It's form inadmisslbie, unless as the result
~ civil war, and could bc established In no 9th
's' way.
W And james A. Garfield says lie IL disciple Of Ale
4" ander Hamilton and pcrsecutes the Democrats {
being his enemies.
no Charles Francis Adams, the grandson of Jol
~. Adams, and his biographer, says;
eb Hamilton was In favor Of permanent military
ganIzaton, (or standing army His tendencies We
IT, never to popular ideas. The motives Of the felera
10 In wishing war with France were; First tho pr
the peopl. was giving to their pary second, the gre
military which II WAS throwing Into t,'
'ys procure notifications In the laws. and in I
Sn Constitution ITSELF so TO fort'fy their power In
al Government rs TO render " lnlnrgnaue Wy tle op
~ siton. These ideas were never remotely shared
NY Mr.. Adams.
Thomas jefferson says;
an, Alexander Hamilton dned with mo while "
Secretary OF State. The room being hung around wi
+" the portraits OF remarkable men, among them those
nat Newton Bacon, and Locke Hamilton asked me "
al they were. told him they We're my trinity of I
are greatest the world ever produced, naming thei
., liz paused for time "Ihe greatest man,
~ baid he, ''that ever lived WAS Ju'ius c"sn'
~, MIR. Randall, In his Life Of Jefferson, says;
tbe There N doubt that Jefferson dreaded Iianoi
, ambition and designs He often mentioned the oi
"" that canlo hin hearing Hamilton praise
We character Of Julius Cesar aud pronounce him
In greatest that lived. Caesar had frequently
has his mouth the saying Of Euripiden Ihat u Ilghta
v Justice to bo violated, they were to DO VI
NY lated for the sake OF reiging.n Jefferson beliey
We that Hamilton capable Of nonrishing danger.
VS. designs, and that he contemplated IN some eisis
nan resOrting 10 the sword.
I'D Now, at the great Loyalists Convention. Just AZ
W tue close OF the war, whose portrait adorned the