The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-24
THE IDEA on rHE FEDERAL GovERNMEN1

! y,
THE IDEA OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
was born in his mind We learn that n the
18th day of December 1886 he wrote a letter
read you an extract. He says: II find by the
public papers that your commercial convention
failed IN point OF representation. If it should
produce full meeting in May and broader
reformation, it will still be well. To make us
one nation as TO foreign concerns and to keep
US distinct In domestic ones. give the outline of
the proper division of powers between the gen
eral ana particular governments. But to en-
able the federal head to exercise the powers
given IL to the best advantages it should be
organized as the particular ones are, into legis
latlve, executive and Judiciary The first and
| the last are already separated. The second
should be. " In speaking of this, the historian
! from whom Tread, Alexander H. Stevens saws:
This as far as the author has been able to dis
cover, after no incOnSiderable research, is the
| hrSt embodied conception of the general outline
| OF those proper changes OF the old constitution
! or articles of confederation which were subse-
| quently, as we shall see, actually and in fact
| engrafted on the old system OF confederation,
and which makes the most marked difference
| DsbWeen ours and all other like systems
| Here, my friends, Is we learn from history, the
plank that came from the brain of this man
! that subsequently became imbedded in the
constitution under which this government has
| since lived.
WHEN THE CONVENTION MET AT PHILADELPHIA
| as have said, Mr.. Hamilton and Mr. Randolph
were then leading the National party; and Mr.
PlncEney, OF South Carolina. and Patterson of
New Jersey, were then leading the Federal
| party, and then the contest opened in earnest
! 1t was question OF whether there Should be
! formed on the American continent a national
| government; whether the lines of the colonies
should be wiped out; whether consolidated
| government should be formed with It's head at
/ the seat OF government; or whether the feder-
| allstlc idea should be preserved and the peonle
| have national government composed of the
smaller or colonial or state governments We
| learn likewise from the history of the times
| that the struggle lasted day after day. week
after week and month after month. and that
| finally the federalist idea prevailed, and the
government that was formed was a govern
ment Of states as well as a government of the
| United states. AS was said in notable case
| by Chief Justice Chase of the supreme court of
| the United States, The states formed the
union, the union is a creature of the states
There, have laid before you the plan From
| that day to this the struggle has never ceased
! II were idle for men to say that there is no
| dlnerence IN principle between the political
parties that have prevailed from time to time
| in America. 1t were not only idle, but man
who Shall so assert is either knave or an idiot
| Can II be possible that such great minds as
America has produced have been struggling for
more than century in contest with each
other over nothing? My friends, there is TODAY
the same contention between political ideas
| that prevail in America, as there was at the
| time of the formation of the constitution
The history of the formation of the Demo-
| cratic party involves