The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-01-07

he land )" to Finance to the 1ariif,
and TO the Peoples Domain.
Jefferson taught that the Govern
ment alone is empowered by the Cons.
titution to issue the money of the
country" whether specie or paper. He
also opposed "High Protective Tariffs"
Hence, in the light of benefactor and
friend to the people, en- mdsse. this illus
triOus man stands grandly supreme
over all his cOmpatriots, and the name
of the great Thomas jefferson
will be immortal.
The old Federalist party, both by
construction and implication, endeav-
ored to give to the Federal Constitution,
in its effects and practical workings,
sovereign powers; when, in reality, it,
the Constitution, only embodied a few
delegated powers. This Party claimed
for the Federal Government general,
absolute power, and maintained that
the Supreme Court was the only arbiter
between the General Government and
the State Governments; and, acting
on this idea of Centralism, they enacted
the "Alien and Sedition Laws"
1t was this misinterpretation of the
United States Constitution, and the
overstepping of the boundaries of Cons
titutional Law, and the attempted
abrogation of State Sovereignty, by the
substitution of Consolidated Union,
to be called Nation with a big NJ
that led to the formation of the Jeffer-
sonian Party, at first generally called
the Republican Party, but sometimes
the Democratic Party, by which name
it is now altogether kno wn.
The opponents of the Jeffersonians,
although called Federalists, or the
Federal Party, by themselves and
Others, were everything else but Fed
eral. Centralism-a Consolidated Gov
eminent was the theory and the at
tempted practice of the Federal party.
The true friends and real advocates
of Federal Union and Government
were the Republicans (Democrats) cons
tituting what was then known as the
Jeffersonian or Republican party.
Those Republicans were the true Fed
eralists then, just as the Democrats are
the true Republicans now. 1t is a case
of old parties with new names for
present parties, which parties are but a
succession of the original "old parties"
The same doctrines of Federal Power
and Consolidation avowed by the Fed
eral party are urged by the Republicans
and opposed by the Democrats, as they
were by Republicans who were DEM
ocrats.
There never has been but two polit-
zeal ideas, in the main, in this country,
tO-wit: The jamestown idea and the
Plymouth Rock idea; the first was
torn of the Cavalier, the last of the
Puritan. The Cavalier embraces human
liberty, so, also, did the Puritan-if you
agreed with him.
Now, the Puritan stock never were
true patriots i'm this country, unless sell
was abundantly served. So. during the
Revolutionary War, while some were
Tories, and others fought for avarlcious
gains, the Cavaliers were generally
Wings.
Tories were friends of George III, aud
traitors to America; Wings Were
friends of Washington and of Freedom
The Federalists were not Federalists
The Wings, who succeeded the FEEDER
alists, were not Wings. The Know
Nothings knew too much for the good
of the country. The Republicans, who
succeeded the Wings and Know Moth,
ings and Abolitionists, were not Re-
publicans.
These people have ever been lie tC
their name; have ever been more
against their country's freedom auo
honor than for them; have ever, in
succession, stolen the names of the rea
patriots and lovers of Republicanism
The Federalists never believed in
Federal System of co-equal, Sovereign
States; the Wings borrowed the nam,
of the Revolutionary Patriots, but wer,
not very patriotic about the time of tn,
Mexican War. But the great insult I,
Democracy and to Republican institu
tions was the theft of the original nam,
of JeffersOn's party.
Mr.. Jefferson, in his Kentucky Res
olutions of 1913, affirmed that 9Th
several States composing the Unite,
States of America are not united on tn
principle of unlimited submission to tn
General Government :" that the State