The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-01-16

command the army OF INVASION which
Congress had raised, and which Wash
ington commanded nonanally n long n
he lived. Death though took away In.
great man under whose name and repu-
tarion all this was 10 bc carried out
II has always seemed 10 me that tn.
hand Of God took Washington AT tn
very best time. both for his country
ana for his reputation. Rufus King. tile
American Ambassador IL England. WIS
IN the plan and reported to Hamilton
more accurately than 10 Adams and the
State Department. II was 4 .grea
scheme and promised Il glorious Carce
for Iiam.lton-a career that might have
rlyalled III the new world that OF Napol
cons in the old. The American Gov
was 10 furnish $1,000 troop
with Hamilton ut their head. Pitt was>
TO furnish the funds and Il powerful.
fleet, while Miranda promised To bring
III the AID OF the South American Con
federation % States. 1t i amusing I,
see how completely the details Of tn.
conquest We're worked out: even the form
of the government 10 be granted III,
conquered country was agreed upon
They We're to have Lords. Commons anu
" 80 D1NSiiIAtA All lli.> iIIIA Bc JpullL
in Hamilton's works-edition by Put
NAM, and also in the Edinburg Review
Vol, NH, and it shows now how ncarJ;
correct Jefferson was when he declared
that if the Federalists had not been de
feated III $500 our government woulG
have been changed in form.
There We're at that day two other
great men at work under Jefferson
James Madison. OF Virginia. ana Aaron
Burr, Of New York. 1t was Il conSum
mate skill with which the Vice Prfs:deni
had Planned the campaign. When h
took his seat in the Senate. Madison
went into the legislature Of Virginia [,
keep that greatest Of all the States III
touch with the master hand at Phila
delphia, and Madison certainly succeed
ed. Patrick Henry was to have OPP
posed Madison in Richmond, but deatl
took the aged orator away and saveG
posterity the struggle between the tw.
men who had last WreStled in dcnat,
together III the convention Of Virginia
OF 1ISS, and in Just reversed attitudes. !
refer TO the debate on the adoption Of th
constitution in which Henry called ol
the Heavens to strike down the enc
mics of mankind that sought to have tht
constitution adopted, and immaliarcil.
" Sltdl l III - uIoIl tIt 'IHA Ii
the hall was emptied because OF he t.
ror that the lightning inspired. We Ma5
also rejoice here that Providence tool
Henry away, too.
Aaron Burr in close understanding
with jefferson, was laying the plan "a
was to wrCst New York from iIanil
tons influence and seat Jefferson secure
~ i'll the Presidents chair. Nowhere II
he Union was Il closer struggle than
that in New York, but Burr was as con
summate leader OF men as jefferson him
self. except for one ching: bis heart VAS
not Ill the struggle as was Jeffarsol
Burr planned and conducted Il campaign
that has never been surpassed, II
elualed, in the politics Of this country.
All of this Jefferson supcrntehded
from the chair Of the senate. Every
thing was against him at the sat of
government; he was ostriciS"d rom so
ciety, traduced and hated as no other
man has Leen. ~ was WelEklpWn tia
Jefferson could not bear unDopularitA
and abuse. and 50 IN organ zcd cifcrt
was made TO drive lim 10 resign his po-
sition in Congress, but the Virginia gen
tleman WAS thoroughly aroused: he re-
maine at his post, and self-Do>SesSed
and i'll all dignity conducted the proceed
lllS VI lht 1IbtA N'1'S g ="
admitted to be the greatest parliamenta
rian that the country had known and it
may be interesting to the reader L"
know that 'Jcffers0n's Manual" with
some slight changes, has been used ever
since.
The Excitement caused by the so-cailed
x. Y. Il. affair just before the election
Of 1893 caused the defeat Of many Of
Jefferson's judicial adherents in Congress
still others became discouraged and
ceased to attend the sessions of Con
gress. Jefferson and noble Gallatin re
! manned at their posts. and IN spite OF
social O>traciSm and almost personal III
suit on the streets and III the lobbieS 81
Congress, did their duty is they saw
it. Without Jefferson | believe the strug-
! Gle would have been lost and the reac
ton would havc become fastened on the
people in n way impossible to have been
thrown off.
In view Of ali this and considering the
personalities Of the men foremost III pol
ties of that day this subject becomes
intensely interesting. Never has there
been Il purely political campaign 50 BIZ
with future cventS az the one going on
just Il hundred years ago and ending III
Congress on the 18th Of February. 1901.
II put Jtl1eISoH III tie Iltslt'lt : TIA
and Madison and Gallatin III the cabinet.
Macon became speaker OF The House
and remained such during three Con
crosses. Burr became \~ice-IreSident
and chairman Of the Senate. And thus
began with the new century a new adj
ministration. and in the new city on the
POtomac-now the beautiful city Of
Washington.
BRINGING in the Edenmoor's Crew.