The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-06-21

toms candor alone was entirely unabashed
in his presence. Mr.. Adams, who was
convert to the principle Of monarchy, but
wished it elective and honest, said at table,
purge that (the British) constitution OF
its corruption, and give to its popular
branch equality Of representation, and 1t
would be the most perfect constitution
ever devised by the wit Of man" To
which Hamilton, after a significant pause,
reioined: Purge it Of its corruption, and
give to its popular branch equality Of rep
resentation, and it would become an imprac-
ticable government: as it stands at pres
ent, with all its supposed defects, it Is the
most perfect government which ever ex-
isted."
The FEDERALIsTs IN POWER.
Upon Mr.. Jeffersou's retirement the
federalists assumed unchecked control"
Hamilton was always for improving every
opportunity for increasing and displaying
the military power OF the government, and
he longed for some domestic case in which
striking exhibition" of this sort might
be made. The so-called whisky insurrec-
ton furnished him pretext, and he not
only marched an army to suppress an IN
surrection which had no existence, but he
trampled in brutal triumph upon an unof-
Tending people, who had peaceably submit
ted TO every requirement of the govern
ment before soldier had crossed the Ale
ghanies. 1t is fact that Hamilton, with
out any authority, civil or military, organ
lied q mixed commission Of his own TO in
fiict his will upon the Inhabitants OF west
ern Pennsylvania, and most singular 1t Is
that history has taken SO little note OF that,
the worst, the basest and the boldest crime
against liberty and law since the adoption
OF the constitution.
The Adams administration has, by COM
mon consent, become the object OF uniyer-
calA e h.I xaIo inn
features beyond the personal integrity OF
the infatuated men who composed It, his
tory has failed to mention them Tne
British craze pervaded IL from first TO last;
and the excuses OF the French revolution,
together with the celebrated y. Y. II.
affair. whereby IL was made to appear that
Talleyrand had endeavored to eXtort from
the American ambassadors large sum as
the price of a treaty, had set the tide with
monetary but tremendous force in favor
OF the British party. The Hamilton meas
ures were continued. and others even more
odious and in more fiagrant violation OF the
constitution were added. The alien law
enabled the President to Danish foreigners
at pleasure, and was aimed especially at
the French republicans exiled 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
and TO the edge of most unnatural ALI
ance with England; and 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 which-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, the
Republicans OF America. Every excess.
every horror of the French revolution,
were predicted as the natural consequences
of the triumph of Jeffersonian Democracy,
among the least of which were the dissolu
ton OF the union and bloody anarchy. /
say the least deliberately, for in the dream
of disbo.Ism which haunted the desperate
federalist CT that day were things which
may not even be written.
Jefferson had been elected Vice-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 ito
rouse the people" to just sense Of their
danger. Gallatin alone remained in the
House, where the federalist members
shouted him down, and inflicted every in
dignity possible in such a body. There
Gus persons, and the attorney general was
as ready as any attorney general OF
them all, from the first of Adams
TO the last Of Graft 10 lend himself
to any outrage that power deemed expe
dent. mo man who did not witness
it can form an idea of their Cnbridled
Madness and the terrorism with which they
surrounded themselves"
THE PEOPLE AWAKE.
But the federalists had pushed their
plans of Capitalization too boldly. When
then the people saw that they had "been
duped into the support of measures calcu
lated 70 sap the very foundation of repuo
lcanism," they swept the offending party
from the councils OF the nation, to reappear
again only after the lapse of more than
half century, when the crimes of its an
cestor had been forgotten, 10 run the same
course ana to meet, 1t is TO be hoped, the
same fate.
The election OF 1900 resulted in the choice
of jefferson and Burr. but the party
which held power, like the party which
held power in 1876, could not afford 10 lay
it down at the bidding OF the people. and
they determined, il possible, to hold on by
fraud, aud If necessary, by force. The
people of New York having elected a legis-
laiure pledged 10 choose Republican cleo
tors, Hamilton wrote the governor implor-
ing him to assemble the existing federaIist
legislature and defeat the will of the vot-
ers by changing the law; but the governor
quietly laid the letter away. with an en-
indicating his sense OF the in
fanny of the proposal, and that Was the end
of the first attempt TO temper with the
vote OF state. Then tney re-
solved to elect Burr, and trust for their
protection to his treachery and his graft
tude Failing in that, they conceived the
~as Of anfa mr. IN all II
ana installing the president of the Senate,
a scheme which was abandoned only
because the majority OF 1900 was made OF
sterner stuff than the majority of 1876
When every other resource had been ex-
hausted, they resorted 70 the ineffabie base
ness OF attempting to bargain with Jeffer-
son himself, but their overtures were re-
jected with contempt. The feieraliss
party was dead; ike all such parties, it was
rotten before it was deaf, and a nasty
intermenc was the only decent thing it
could demand.
In obedience 10 the will OF the people.
with only after q long and peril
Gus contest in the House, Mr.. Jefferson
became President on the ith of March.
1901. AS mere literary production the
inaugural was simply perfect; while as q
statement OF fundamental theories and re-
pu blican principles of conduct, it became
at once, aud remains to this day, a very
scripture OF Democratic faith. And the
two administrations which followed came
fully up TO the proclamation. To this hour
il is uncertain whether the first Democratic
President rode on horseback and almost
alone to the place of his Inauguration, or
''walked up from his lodging house, at
tended by few gentlemen" At all
eveuts, the ceremony was OF TIE simplest
and plainest. When he reached the White
House the whole OF the old Hamiltonian
system OF courtly etiquette was brushed
away: the hand OF the republican President
was freely given to every citizen and his