The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-09

an inviolable preservation of our
present Federal Constitution, accord
ing to the true sense in which it was
adopted by the States. =
am opposed to the monarchising its
features by the forms of its admins
tration, with the view to conciliate
first q transition to a President and
Senate for life, and from that to a
hereditary tenure of these offices; ana
thus to worm out the elective princi-
pie. l am for preserving to the
powers not yielded by them to the
Union; and to the legislature of the
Union its constitutional share in the
division of powers; and l am not for
transferring all the power of the
States to the General Government:
and all those of that Government to
the executive branch. / am for a
government vigorously frugal and
simple. | am for free COM
merce with all nations; political con-
nection with none; and little or no di-
plomatic establishment. And l am
not for linking ourselves, by new
treaties, with the quarrels of Europe;
enter3ng that field of slaughter to
preserve their balance, or joining in
the confederacy of kings to war
against the principles of liberty
| have given enough above To make
rejecting men consider present
dangers, usurpadons and departures
from the simple, genuine, basic gov
eminent of the People, and the steady
progress in a corruption. in political
profiigacy, in centralizing tendencies
and demands, in open, bare-faced in
vasionS upon the part of the Chief
Executive. and in the rulings and con-
duct of Federal Judges.
Hamilton was regarded with so
much of distrust by the friends of
popular government that as early as
1898, there was a strong opposition to
him, and under the leadership oil
Madison, Macon and Giles a vigorous
effort was made to force the danger.
Gus man from the Cabinet, which
ought to have been done. Hamilton,
hating Jefferson'S democratic princi-
pies, had tried his best to force his
great rival out of Washington's Cabi-
net. Hamilton was depraved, i'm
moral man Professor Dodd, in his
valuable Life of Macon" page 104,
says: Hamilton, the Federalists'a
beau ideal, had been forced into a
confession in an adulterous connection
with the wife of Il worthless wretch
employed at one time in the Treasury
Department, in order to prove himself
innocent of what he regarded as "a
worse crime, that of misapproprlatlns
public funds" He was DelleVed 10 De
corrupt, and a strong suspicion rested
upon him.
Hamilton was a destructive, as |
said at the beginning of this article.
He was a warm advocate of division
of the States, and an effort to accom-
plish it was made in the Congress. Ii
is notable fact that the Hamiltonlan
crowd, or a part of them, that the
States were not independent. Bayard,
of New Jersey, a strict Haniltonian.
and to be watched. said in reply to
John Randolph, of Virginia, that he
regarded himself-Bayard- much
a Representative of Virginia as Ran,
.dolph himself" (Dodd, page 176).
But / cannot follow here Hamilton's
leadership farther. The States amount
ed to but little in his view.
Before concluding let me call atten'
ton to some writings that will inform
and interest, and contribute to bet
ter. clearer understanding of the diff
ficulties and dangers that threatened
seriously the new and weak Govern,
ment: Read BancroftS History
of the United States, Will
liam Sullivan's Men of the Revo-