People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1893-07-07

because lC keeps the estate together
encourages accumulation and pre-
vents distribution.
The law of Entails, coupled with
the law of Primogeniture, had al
ready established in Virginia a land
ed gentry, proud, idle and arrogant,
fashioned upon the model of the
English nobility, and seeking to i'm
ltate its style.
Jefferson hated this system with
lmplacable aversion, and be destroyed
it.
Another evil he remedied, while
In the Legislature.
He found the Episcopal Church in
partnership with the State. The tax
payers, no matter what their relig-
ious,faith, were taxed to maintain the
Episcopal clergy. So naturally do
principles go together, that the good
old State Of Virginia, after initiating
England upon the Land system,
quite as a matter of course, copied
her on the ecclesiastical question.
The Land Monopoly and the Church
Monopoly were having a gay time
IN copartnership.
Jefferson broke it up. The Epis-
copal Church was divorced from the
State Treasury, and made to earn It's
living lust as the other churches had
to do.
He likewise secured the adoption
of a thorough system of common
schools. "Trust the people: teach
the people" were two of the strong
est pillars upon which he sought to
rest the splendid fabric Of popular
government.
The Aristocracy of Virginia, both
lay and clerical, hated Jefferson with
intense hatred the balance Of his life.
In the eyes Of these high born crea-
lures who had been busted from
their special privileges and placed on
a footing with common mortals, Mr..
Jefferson was a Demagogue, an in
stirrer up of strife-ar-
raging the poor against the rich, for
base political purposes.
Such was his magnificent work in
the Virginia Legislatures monu-
ment to his worth, loftier than scnlp-
tor could raise, and more enduring
than marble or brass.
One other piece oflmork foe greaA
Heformer attempted.
He tried to abolish slavery.
Would to God he had succeeded!
The million men who butchered
each other in battle would never have
left their fields, their shops, their
homes.
The fearful legacy Of sectional
hate would never have been ours.
The billions of treasure wasted In
causing misery, would have been a
blessed Offering in the Temples of
Peace.
Shylock's opportunity never would
have come, as it did come, when tnh
found itself forced to
borrow from it's own selfish specula-
tors and had to submit to the infa-
nous exactions of the New York,
Boston and Philadelphia Bankers.
The professional politician, North
and South, never would have beee
free of cost, with a stock
in trade which would last him thirty
years; and upon which he could
thrive, dominate and destroy, upon
the sole condition that if he lived
North he should curse the South,
and if he lived South he should
curse the North.
FEDERALISM AGAINST DEMOCRACY.
When Jefferson entered national
politics he found Hamilton develop
ing his schemes and carefully laying
his plans. Both of these able men
belonged to Washington's cabinet.
Jefferson was Secretary of State;
Hamilton Secretary of the Treasury.
Almost Immediately the lrreconcila-
BILE differences of opinion appeared.
The contest between them being one
Of vital principles, it ragged during
all of Wasnington's time, all of Ham
ilton's life, all of Jeferson's life; it
has ragged ever since; it RACES now,
and it will continue to rage as long
as this Republic endures. For, state
it as you will, it is the everlasting
hostility which, in every wealthy
community, arises between the
masses and the classes; between the
and the unprivileged; be-
tween the rich, trying to establish
and the middle and low
or classes, determined that Democ-
raoy shall never die.
The creed of Hamilton was the
oasis upon which stood the political
called the Federal
Party.
What were its principles?
They believed that the English
was the most perfect form
IF government known to man, and
hey wished ours to resemble it as
ar as possible. They wished the
Federal government to grow at the
expense of the States. They sought
% create a moneyed arlstocracy by
means Of a Bond system and Ma
5ional Banks. They wished to spe-
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