The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-14

minating in the great university he
founded. Freedom of religion was to
him not an idle phrase. but a sacred
right to be guaranteed by law. So he
overthrow the established church.
broke the union of State and church.
and abolished what he termed "this
spiritual tyranny" Personal liberty"
found in him it's ready champion, when
violated by the alien and sedition
laws, which he denounced as contrary
to the letter and the spirit Of the Con-
stitution. He fought the United States
bank and Hamilton's plan Of bounties
and protection, because he believed
they meant control of law by monopoly
and wealth and class through corrupt
influences for selfish ends-a system
which he declared had been contrived
''fOr deIuging the States with PAPER
money" Withdrawing citizens from
useful pursuits, tto occupy them and
their capitals in a species Of gambling
destructive Of morality, and which had
introduced it's poison into the govern
ment itself His Democracy taught
that control Of law should be only bv
and for the people.
OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS.
But Jeffersons thought and work
were not limited TO domestic questions.
He lived in times of revolution and
war. He had been a powerful factor
in achieving the independence Of our
country and in maintaining it against
foreign aggression. He advocated and
accomplished a vast extension OF her
power as he frankly admitted He be-
lieged in the future and grand destiny
Of our republic and declared I'VE
should have such an empire for liberty
as she has never surveyed since the
creation" and that mo constitution
was ever before so well calculated as
ours for extensive empire and self
government" He upheld the nations
honor, asserted it's rights and jealousy
guarded its interests against foreign
attacks, but declaAa her policy to be,
peace, commerce and honest friend
ship with all nations, entangling alli-
ances with none" He held the country
aloof from foreign complications which
did rot encroach upon her rights VIC
orously protested when they reached
this point, but was DESTROYS ever OF
peace with honor. I'm the early years
Of the conflict between England and
France he wrote as Secretary of State.
Il wish we may be able to represe
the spirit Of the people within the
limits OF a fair neutrality" Later.
when England planned to seize SPANS
North American possessions. he for
mulated the principle of the Monroe
doctrine in his instructions as Presi-
dent 10 our Minister at Her Court. tWe
Wlsh you, therefore," he wrote. ito
intimate to them 1.-THE British ministry1
mat we cannot be Indifferent to en-
terPrlses OF this kind; that we should
contemplate change of neighbors
WIN extreme uneasiness; that a due
palance on our borders is not less de
sifabie TO us than q balance of power
IN Europe has always appeared to
them And later still he said with an
sincerity, mo two countries upon
earth have SO many points of con-
mon interest and friendship. and their
rulers must be great bunglers indeed
II with such dispositions. they break
them asunder"
lie believed that the honor and safe
ty OF our country lay i'm fair neutraIi-
~, peace and honest friendship with
all nations, but with recognition of
her continental interests and readi-
ness to assert her power in their de
TENSE. In the young life OF a new re-
public ne established the foreign poll
cy since followed i'm her full matlIrite
and inFiucible strength. and which /.
finds its latest expression iu the yiaor- /
Gus action Of a Democratic adminisha- /
hon Ills pen might have written. as .
no doubt his teaching suggested the .
declaration THAT while it is q grieyous
thing to contemplate the two great F
speaking peoples Of the world T
IS being otherwise than friendly com
petitors in the onward march Of civil
zatlon, and strenuous and worthy IL
Yals IN all the arts of peace, there is no
calamity which a great nation can in
Yite which equals that which follows
q supine submission to wrong and i'm
justice, and the consequent loss of ma
tional self-respect and honor, beneath
which are shielded and defended a peo-
pies safety and greatness" He would
rejoice with us that out of friction and
discord, with self-respect and honor.
II coming the closer union Of the. AMI
glo-SaXon race on the firm basis of
peace and arbitration. He would coun-
sci MS to a vigorous prosecution Of the
pursuits of peace and not. to follow