People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-17

main true to their republican prin-
ciples; the whole landed interest is
republican, and so is the mass OF
talents. Against us are the Execu-
tive, the Judiciary, two of three
branches of the Legislature, all the
officers of the Government, all who
want to be officers, all timid men
who prefer the calm of despotism to
the boistrous sea of liberty, British
merchants and Americans trading on
British capital, spectators and
holders IN the banks and public
funds, a contrivance invented for the
purpose of corruption and for as
Stimulating us in all things to the rot
ten as we'll as to the sound parts of
the British model. 1t would give
you fever were / to name to you
the apostates who have gone over to
these heresies, men who were Sam
sons in the field or Solomons in the
council, but who have had their
heads shorn by the harlot England.
In short we are likely to preserve
the liberty we have obtained only by
unremitting labors and perils. But
we shall preserve it."
There was an additional reason for
the revolution Jefferson wrought.
The downfall of the French Republic
left us without friend in Europe.
He realized the Importance Of hus-
banding our resources and concen-
trating them upon the development
and strengthening of our own coun-
try. He wished to avoid every
needless waste Of money for display,
alike by the Government and the
people, believing that extravaganza
would corrupt both. It was with
this view that the number of offices
was reduced, and that Gallatin par
ticularly cut down expenditures to
the minimum. It became at once a
government for the people and by
the people. 1t was a transfer of
power from the silk stocking to the
wooden hose, which Jefferson himself
wore, and from the gaudily decked
aristocrat, with his braid and buckles,
to the unwigged and unpowdered
Democracy.
TRUE STORY OF HIS INAUGURATION.
At the time Of Mr.. Jefferson's ac~
cession an English tailor was travel
ling in this country, named Davis,
who had letters to Burr, from whom
he borrowed money. While here he
wrote to England, describing what
he saw and much that he did not see.
In the latter category was the inau-
guration Of Jefferson. He was not
even in Washington at the time, but
desiring to make his letters home in
teresting, and being something Of an
expert in lying, he gave an account
Of the ceremonies, in which he rep
resented the President elect as riding
''on horseback to the Capitol, with
out a single guard or even servant in
his train, dismounted without assist
ance and hltched the bride of his
horse to the palisades.''
Randall, in his "Life of Jefferson"
adopts this myth, but the weight of
evidence is against it. In the first
place, Mr.. Jefferson, as Vice resi-
dent, lived at Conrad's boarding
house, on the avenue, not two blocks
from the Capitol, and he would
hardly have mounted his horse to
ride that distance. Then, Edward
Thornton, who was in charge Of the
British Legation at Washington, on
sending Jefferson's inaugural address
to Lord Granville, then Foreign Sec
rotary under Pitt, accompanied it
with an account of the Inauguration,
in which he says jefferson ''oame
from his own lodging to the Capitol
on foot, in his ordinary dress, escort
ed by a body of militia artillery
from the neighboring State, and &C.
companied by the Secretaries of the
Navy and the Treasury and a num-
Der of his friends in the House of
Representatives"
This is probably the more accurate
account, though plausibility was i'm
parted to the Davis story by the fact
that Jefferson, during his admistra-
ton, habitually rode horseback. 'He
makes it a point" says one of his
Federalist critics, ''when he has oc-
casion to visit the capitol to meet
the representatives Of the nation on
public business, to go on single
horse, which he leads into a shed
and bitches to peg"
That Mr.. Jefferson did go to the
extreme Of simplicity in every respect
is certainly true, but he did so for
the reasons given above-to empha-
size his hostility, and the hostility Of
the party he represented, to all mon
archical influences, and as an example
to his subordinates in the Govern
ment and to the people themselves.
1t was for these reasons also that he
abolished the custom of delivering
sethe Kings speech' to Congress in
person, and adopted the plan of
written message, which
requires no ''address" in return, and