The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-04-04
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niIsnar1 Of fJsnssSRI Birthday.

NEW HAVEN, CoSx., April S.-The JET
iersonian Club Of this city celebrated til,
anniversary OF the birthday OF Thomas
Jefferson, this evening. A large numbel
Of guests from various parts Of the Stat,
were present, The letter Of Samuel ]
Tilden was us follows;
GRAYsrOSE, March 80, 1882.
GeAtlemea-I have received your letter IL
behalf Of the JetEersoniAn Club Of New
Haven, inviting me to be present at theii
cOmmemoEation OF the birth Of Thomas
Jefferson. Although am obliged to deny
myself the pleasure Of meeting with you
on that occasion, share the feelings which
bring you together.
Mr.. Jefferson has many titles to the rev.
erence Of the American people and Of all
lovers OF liberty throughout the world. lie
was among the earliest, most resolute aud
most steadfast OF the patriots who upheld
popular rights in the incipient struggles Of
our revolution, when the part he took re.
qaired higher order OF courage, OF self
denial and OF genius, than were necessary
at any subsequent period OF our history.
He penned the immortal statement OF
principles that bid Our ancestors 10 assert
the independent existence oil our country,
and which has been substantially adopted
as the model for every people who have
since attempted 10 establish national indie
pendenCe on the basis OF human rights.
He, was the first in his day to completely
emancipate his own mind from the mon.
archial and aristoCraticat traditions which
still enslaYe most OF the best intellec;s OF
the country. But the obligations Of the
world to Mr.. Jefferson do not end here.
On the completion Of the Federal Consti.
tuition Governor Morris being asked what
he thought otit, answered, THAT depends
upon how it is construed" After the or.
ganization Of the Federal government q
powerful class sought to impress upon
its practical working the simili.
tude Of the British system.
Mr.. Jefferson was the great leader Of the
party formed to resist these efforts and to
hold our institutions to the popular char.
acter which was understood to belong 10
them when the Constitution was ratified
by the people. By his inlexible adher.
ehce to free principles, by his untiring
efforts, by his counsels and by the magic
OF his pen, he was the principal agent in
Fescping from its greatest peril, and while
yet in its infancy, the Government bv the
people and for the people. The arduous
contest resulted in the political revolu-
ton which brought Mr.. Jefferson
into the Presidency. He pat
the ship OF State, to use his own ex-
preston, upon the Republican track " He
arrested centralizing influences, he invig.
GRATED local self-government, restored the
rights OF the State and protected and en-
larged the domain OF individual judgment
and conscience. For eight years he adj
ministered government, and for sixteen
yearsit was administered by his pupils un-
der his observation and advice. Thus was
established habit which largely shaped
the standard for the guidance of popular
judgment. The modes os thinking
statesmen and the general course
OF government for sixty years.
How important such habit is will
be appreciated when we consider that
ursurpatlon has often been successfully nc
complished in other countries by men
welding executive power, and when We
arc reminded, Jefferson sincerely feared
Hamilton, who thought our government
"frail and worthless Iabric," would change
it il he came into power, and when we
also recall the fnct that Hamilton himself
has left on record his belief that Burr
would have wrought personal usurpation
ii he could have grasped the Presidency.
Mr.. jefferson give to our administrative
system an aspect oil republican simplicity,
repressed iobberY as well as all perVersion
Of power, and by his precepts, his inhu.
ence and his isexample elevated the standard
Of political morals. In his personal prac-
tiee he was not only pure, but, to make
his example more effective, he RETAINED
while administering the greatest Of official
trusts, from all attempts to increase his
own fortune even by methods open to
every private citizen. In a period when
there seems to be little respect for limita.
tions otthep powerprescribed Ly,. our Consti-
tuition, when the assumption OF ungrant-
cd authority are rife in all departments
0t the Federal Government, when that
government is gradually changed into an
elective despotism, meddEing in everything
belonging to States as are individuals when
every new assumption OF ungrunted power
creates new opportunities, new facilities,
and new incentives to iavoritism and lob,
berry; when civil service has been con.
yerted into the balance Of power
to determine the elections by PIE.
cuntary and other Legitimate in
tluenCes, when perversion of high pub
lie trusts to the private gain of the official
is frequently committed with apparent un.
consciousness of wrong, and passed almost
without rebuke, it is time the teachings
and examples OF Thomas Jefferson be in.
voked to keep alive glimmering spark Of
official virtue and public honor.
Your fellow citizen,
SAMUEL ]. TnDEx.
After the reading OF the letter was