Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-03
FRIDAY, MAY 81 1853.
An Unspeakabie Outrage.

If any event in the history OF the
Unite d States ought to have been nom
part izan in it's character, certainly the
ann ivereary of the Inauguration of Presi-
dent Washington should have been that
occasion. One of the most delightful
and suspicious attributes Of the Father
of his Country was his pronounced nom
partizanship. He took Jefferson, the
leader of the Democratic sentiment, and
Hamilton, the leader of the Federal
lists, and placed them, cheek by jowl, in
his Cabinet, the former as Secretary OF
State, and tbe latter as Secretary of the
Treasury. He always severely discoun-
tenanced partizanship. as was the die
tate both of right and common sense,
considering that he was the choice OF all
his countrymen, and that the follow ers OF
Mr.. Jefferson were overwhelmingly in
the ascendancy amongst the masses, as
was quickly demonstrated when the great
hero retired to the shades Of Mount Yer
non. All Americans were united in
acclaimipg the memory of the matchless
patriot; there had not been, as there
should not have been, single partizan
note in the celebration in New York,
when Bishop Potter, evidently a rabid
Anglomaniac, strobe to the front and
delivered the following atrocious libel on
Jefferson and jackson and the demo-
cratic republican sentiment of the
country:
We have exchanged Wasbipgtonisn
dignity for Jeffersonian simplicity, which
was, in truth, only another name for
Jacksonian vulgarity.
After this ecclesiastical prig, who is
doubtless descendant of some Of the
Federalists who held out blue lights to
the British fleets in the war of 1872, had
subsidized, Mr.. Chauncey Mitchell Depew,
the orator of the day, took the stand,
and delivered really matchless address
from all points of views. His opinions OF
Jefferson were in marked contrast to
those of Bishop Potter. We reproduce
them:
More clearly than any salesman OF
the period did Thomas Jefferson grasp
and divine the possibilities of popular
government. He caught and crystalized
the spirit of free ins titutions. His phil
oeophical mind was singularly free from
the power of precedents or the chains OF
prejudice. He had an unQuestioning
and abiding faith in the people, which
was accepted by but few of his compat-
riots. Upon his famous axiom of the
equality of all men before the law, he
constructed his system. 1t was the trip
hammer essential fer the emergency to
break the links binding the colonies to
imperial authority, and to pulverize the
privileges of caste. 1t inspired him tc
write the Declaration of Independence.
The probability is that the author Of
the Declaration of Independence, who
will, in all likelihood, from that fact
alone, become the most memorable mar
of all ages as time goes en-, was indie
pendent of even Mr.. Depew's eulogy
Bishop Potter, however, was answered
ON the very day on which he delivered
his malignant aspersiou on Jefferson
But how as to Jackson, the splendid
tribune CT the people, the victorious
leader of his country's defenders-the
man who postponed, for nearly third o.
q century, the era of the ascendancy
of the banded wealth, the cor
porations and the trusts, of which
Bishop Potter is undoubtedly devou
worshiper? Vulgarity, forsooth! The
real vulgsrians are those who, like Bishop
Potter, in a Republic, have undergone
such an excavation OF sense and soul that
they cannot realize the dignity of a man
and lover of mankind. II is we'll fol
this country if it shall prove to have q
large element of the Jacksonian kind OF
vulgar ty-men whose souls are moi
laundering with a raveuing for slavery,
ceremonial and prostration. 1t will &C.
eur, to an immense proportion OF the
psople of the United Ststes, that Bishop
Potter made an ass of himself, and that
the august hero OF the Battle of New Or
leans and the throttler of the Bank OF
the United States looms over such pigny
assRilants
Like some tall cliff that lifts its awful form,
swells from the vale and midway leaves the
s'or"'
THERE are grave doubts as to whether
the new cruiser, the Charleston, responds
either to the specifications of the contract
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