The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-07-25

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lsurp uncounted millions of acres of the
vacant lands of America" and fling them
$50 into the scale against liberty Gnd JUS
ice
JEFFERSON IN wAsHIEGToN's CABINET.
When Jefferson took his seat In the
cabinet Of Washington he found 3
most extraordinary state both OF pub
lie affairs and Of society. Hamil-
toms plans were already well under
way. the treasury had ''insinuated
its power in both houses OF Congress"
The funding bill had passed; the sssump.
ton bill was matured, and the bank was
about to be born. Jefferson and Hamilton
were the recognized leaders OF the two par
ties, then almost as distinct as at any time
since. They were thrown together at al
most every meeting "like cocks in the pit"
Randolph supported Jefferson with en-
lightened zeal. Knox, q great honest giant
was the mere echo Of Hamilton. He be-
lieved in his little colleague and big guns;
and that was his whole confession Of DO
Gtical faith. Washington endeavored to
hold the balance even between them Both
his great secretaries enjoyed his personal
confidence; but Jefferson always contended
that he did not comprehend the 'sdrift' of
Hamilton's measures. The president
signed the bank bill with hesitation not
because he approved the principle, but in
Difference to the will OF the legislature
'He was true to the Republican charge
confided TO him, and has solemnly and re-
nsatsdlV protested to ma" aaVA Jefferson
.C4JAS, mat ,SVuAu4 auS,
the Last drop Of his blood In support OF It.
and he did this the oftener and with the
more earnestness, because he knew my
suspicious Of Hamilton's designs against IL
and wished to quiet them"
But 1t was the tone Of society and the
talk OF the drawing rooms and dinner
[ tables which most astonfshed the Demo
cratic secretary of state. Glasses were
already formed and the divisions officially
recognized, and, amid the pomp aud cere-
| mony instituted by Hamilton the prevail
/ ing sentiment sounded strangely un- Repuo
lican In the ears of the author Of the Dec
lsration OF independence. The syInpa-
thies of this pseudo aristocracy were unre-
| servedly British, and the late ambassador
| TO France was not q little shocked by the
comments he was forced to hear OF the
| mild beginnings Of the French revolution
to which every friend Of liberty was then
5 hearty well wisher. He soon sscertalned
| that while the secretary of state could not
we'd be excluded from these select circles,
| he was not especially welcome. Hamil
/ toms candor alone was entirely unaoasned
| IN his presence. Mr.. Adams, who was q
! convert to the principle OF monarchy, but
] wished 1t elective and honest said at table,
| purge that (the British) constitution Of
| its corruption, snd give to its popular
| branch equality OF represen tation, and it
would be the most perfect constitution
ever devised by the wit of man." TO
/ which Hamilton, alter significant pause,
rejoined: Purge it OF It's corruption, and
give to its popular branch equality of rep
resentatiUn, and it would become an iIuprac.
| ticable government: az IL stands at pres
ent, with all its supposed defects, it is the
most perfect government which ever ex-
listed"
HE FEDERALIsTs IN POWER.
Upon Mr.. Jenerson's retirement the
| federul!sts assumed unchecked control. ~
Hamilton was always foe improving every
/ opportunity for increasing and displaying
the military power OF the government, ami
/ ne longed for some domestic case in which
striking exhibition" of this sort might
be made The so-called whisky insurrec-
| zion furnished him a pretext, and he not
| only marched an army to suppress an in
| surrecton which had no existence, but ne
( trempled in brutal triumph upon en- unof-
/ Tending people, who had peaceably submit
! ted 10 every requirement of the govern
/ neD[ before q soldier had crossed the Ale
| s>danles. 1t Is a fact that Hamilton, with
I cut any authority, civil or military, organ
/ lied mixed commission of his own to In
| tiGt his will upon the inhabitants of west
ern Pennsylvania, and most singular it is
That history has taken SO little note OF that,
| the worst, the 6asesJ and the boldest crime
/ against liberty and law since the adoption
| OF the constitution.
! The Adams administration has, by com
mon consent, become tee object of univer-
| sal eXeoratlon, II it had any redeemiug
features beyond the personal integrity of
the infatuated men who composed it, his
tory has failed to mention them. Tne
| British craze pervGded il from tirst to last;
and the excuses of the French revolution,
! together with the celebrated Y. Y. Z.
affair, whereby it was made to appear that
| Ialieyrand had endeavored to eXtort from
the American ambassadors q large sum as
/ the price Of treaty, had set the tide with
| mOmentary but tremendous force IN favor
/ OF the British party. The Hamilton meas4
tsEe5 Wsro continued. Anu Otners even mere
/ odious aud In more iaErauJ violation Of the
constitution were added. The alien law
( enabled the President to Danish foreigners
at pleasure, and was aimed especially al
/ the French republicans 6xiied or domiciled
here. The seditiOn law was intended to
| silence criticism, and it was vigorously and
! brutally enforced. The country was
pushed to the verge OF war with France
J and TO the edge of Il most unnatural RlIi
| ance with England; aud this-long after
| the determination OF France to keep the
peace with US at any price had been known
was made the pretext of great military
and naval establishments, involving an
enormous increase of the public debt, both
Of Whioh-debt and army-were In them
selves primary objects of federalist policy.
Pulpit and press teemed with ''maniacal
rawlings" regarding the Jacobins Of France
and their alleged friends and allies, tie
. Republicans Of America. Every excess.
every horror of the French revolution,
vera predicted as the natural consequences
of the triumph of Jeifersonisn Democracy,
among the least of which were the dissolu-
tiOn OF the union and bloody anarchy.
say the least deliberately, for in the dream
of diabolIsm which haunted the desperate
tederalist Of that day were things which
may not even be written.
Jefferson had been elected Vfce-Presi-
dent with Adams. He remained at his post
and guided the contest at the seat Of gov
eminent. But many of the Republican
leaders gave up the conflict in Congress,
and went into the state legislatures ''to
rouse the people, to just sense Of their
danger. GallaLin alone remained in the
House, where the federalist members
shouted him down, and inflicted every in
dignity possible in such body. There
was talk even of deportation" of obnoxi-
Gus persons, and the attorney general was
as ready as any attorney general OF
them all. from the Arat of Adams
70 the last OF Grant, to Iend nlmsell
to any outrage that power deemed expe
dent. mo man who did not witness
it can form an idea of their unbridled
madness and the terrorism with which they
surrounded themselves"
TEE PEOPLE AWAKE.
But the federalists had pushed theil
plans OF Capitalization too boldly. Whe1
then the people saw that they had sheer
duped into the support OF measures calou-
lated 10 sap the very foundation OF repub-
licanism," they swept the offending party
from the councils of the nation, to reappeal
agun only after the lapse of more thar
half a century, when the crimes of Its an.
cestor had been forgotten, to run the same
course and to meet, 1t Is to be hoped, the
same fate.
The election OF 1890 resulted in the ohoct
Of Jefferson and Burr. hut the part
which held power, like the party which
held power in 1896 could not afford to la,
1t down Ut the bidding OF the people, AM
, they determined, il possible, to hold on b,
fraud and il necessary, by force This
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