San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-07
POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE
UNITED STATES.


BY THEODOR HILsCHER IN THE FREIE
PREssE FUER TEXAS.
Translated for the San Antonio LIGBT.,
In the lives of nations, people hold
different views of all newly rising
questions of Importance; hence there
also exist different 'parties". These
parties are even necessary and 1T can
even be claimed that one necessitates
the other; not that they maintain un.
Animous views, but that the elements
of which they are com posed, in an d
among the nation, are manifold in
interests and hence seek each their
respective advantages.
Notice for a moment the existing
parties and make ocular observations
and do not heed what they may claim
or propose to be, tor the disappointment
would be equally as great ss having
bought piece OF lard In one of the
most productive regions without
having seen it first A large portion,
and specially those who claim for one
party all perfection and virtue, and
y heap upon the other all defects, are
regularly left in the cold.
In order to make proper examin-
alton and draw satisfactory eonclu.
siOns it will be necessary to recall
some historic facts from the past
During the life time of Washing
ton and specially during his second
pfesiden tial term, hi" Federal Party"
to which he belonged himself,
leaned towards the then "conservar
tive" England, while the opposition
party, the republicans under the
leadership of Jefferson, were inclined
toward France.
1t was Jefferson, the clear and far
seeing statesman, who at that early
day drew atten ton to the necessity of
national and popular education, who
saw the dangers that would arise for
the repu bile through African slavery
and Its consequent arlstocracy of the
slave owner, in furtherauce of
of a law which admitted the states OF
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois Michigan,
and Wisconsin, all of which com.
prised the Northwestern Territory, as
free states only. 1t was he who
warned the people in time of the in
eIeasing power OF the supreme court
In contrsdistiDetion to this are the
warnings of Washington in his fare
we'll address against dangerous ZEN
tangling) alliances directed to France;
in this Of course, he was right, for
while Europe with her crowned heads
has no business here, likewise have
the United States nothing to do with
their dissffections and quarrels
The federal party with its narrow
minded emigration policy made of
itself an impossibility. The new party
aimed for protective tariff in order to
aid American industry and increas
ing facilities for inland Communication
and called Itself 1.-THE Whigs," while
the Democrats this Is tho modern
name of the then or former republi-
can party,) wanted cheap imports of
foreign goods and wan ted to leave the
construction OF public highways and
roads to the different states.
Then it was that something oc.
Cured which created the most ma
terial changes in all these schemes.
1t was al, the beginning of this GEN.
fury, the first Napoleon was COM
PEELED to abandon his idea to conquer
Egypt, in order to contend for the
mastery of the midas against the
English. The sea battle on the AT
rican coast near A bukir had destroyed
the French fleet of the Mediterranean.
and the northern channel fleet was
compelled to remain in northern
ports. Neither it nor the Spanish
fleet in the north could enter tire
Mediterranean, because the key u
the same, Gibraltar. was in the hands
of the British.
With all this and while France had
lost the whole of Canada to the Eng
lish, she still held large possession.
in North America, Louisiana no
the present Louisiana, but all land.
west of the Mississippi from Louisi
ana up to Minnesota, except Texa:
and New Mexico, were French terri
tory.
Napoleon knew that without a
strong naval force he could not pro
tect the American possessions anC
afraid they might fall in the hands
of the hated BritOns, who should MOI