Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-07-11
"a Extracts from the writings of Thos.
Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Inde-


Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, appropriate to the day.
A respectable minority is useful as censors.
-Inever suffered political to become per.
sonal difference.
The execution of the laws is more important
than the making them.
is uniformity Of opinion desirable? No more
than of face and stature
science ia more important in republican than
in any other government.
Mo man win ever bring out of the presidency
the reputation which carries him into it
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand
with the progress Of the human mind.
1t Is error alone which needs the support of
government, truth can stand byitsef.
AN equilibrium OF agriculture, manufacture
and commerce is essential to our independence.
We're men directed from Washington when to
SOW and when to reap, we should want for bread
- The whole body of the nation is the sovereign
legislature executive and judiciary power for ITSELF
The State and federal governments are co-or-
dinate departments Of one simple and integral whole.
Il wish at the end of four years Congress had
made the president forever ineligible to second
term.
A naval force can never endanger our liberties
nor occasion bOodshed, land force could do both.
Il am not among those who fear the people,
they, and not the rich, are our dependence for con-
tfnued freedom.
1t is not By the consolidation or concentra-
tion of powers, but by their distribution, that good
government is enacted.
II is fatal heresy TO suppose that either our
state governments are superior to the federal or the
federal to the states.
A representative government made RESPONSE
BILE at short periods Of election produces the great
est sum of happiness to mankind.
Il never appointeda relation to office, and that
merely because never saw the case in which some
one did not offer or occur better qualified.
Il think, myself, that we have more machinery
of government than Is necessary-toO many para
sites living on the labor of the indus; rious.
Agriculture IN manufacture commerce and nav
igatiOn, the four pillars Of our prosperity are the
most thriving when left most free to individual
terprise. ---- g.. '-..s
My earnest wish is to see the republican elc-
ment of popular control pushed to the maximum of
its practicable exercise. shall then eieve that
our government may be pure and perpetual.
Its our business to manufacture for ourselves
whatever we can, to keep our markets open for what
we can spare want and the less have to do with
the antilles or enmities of Europe, the better.
Il believe this the strongest government on
earth the only one where every man at the Gail of
the laws would fly to the standard of the law, and
meet invasions of the public order as his own per-
sonal concern.
Il have always thought that where the line of
demarcatioH between the powers of the general and
the state governments was doubtfuly or indisnctly
drawn, 1t would be prudent and praseworhy in both
parties never to approach it but under urgent
sity.
II never told my own religion nor scrutinized
that of another. never attempted to make con-
vert nor wished to change another's creed.
The example Of four presidents voluntarily re-
firing at the end of their eight years has given in
practice the force Of precedent and usage. Inso-
much that should president consent to be a candi
date fora third election trust he would be reject
ed on this demonstration of ambitious views.
-Expcrience has taught me that manufac ctures
are as necessary to our independence as to COM
fort.