The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-10-23


70 stop here and parenthetically show
now the several States consulted. di--
cuSsed and acted. but | pass on. North
Carolina was the last but Rhode Island
90 come into the compact, for such il
was admitted by Daniel Webster to
be, in his famous Capon Springs CVa.)
sreech long after he had denied it in
ms discussion with calhoun and
tfayne. The two States named cor
tinued for some twenty n mem
bers Of the original Confederation be
fore accepting the Constitution as
adopted. "National Government" was
sought to be introduced into the Con-
Stltutlon by Hamilton. but was unanf-
mouSly stricken out. 1t was a Fedora!
and not a "National' Government that
was thus set up. Tina is Il compact
or agreement tive several States.
But I pass IN. The Government that
was instituted was a Government by
~transaction very clearly shows. The
people did not frame a Constitution
but worked through their Legisla-
lures. 1t was Il Government of separ-
ate, sovereign. coequal and indies
tructlbIe states, composing under the
Constitution a Federal Union for the
preservation of the liberties of the
States and the rights Of che People o.
the said States. Mr.. Webster in his
very famous and eloquent speech III
reply to Hayne, said THE Consti-
tuition and the Union, one and inSep-
arable.'
AS | have said already, Mr. Jeffer-
son stood forth as the champion o.
both the States and the people. The
Virginia Resolutions, as they are kOnWn
of 1898. We're drawn by him. and they
are indeed the very bedrock of genuine
Democracy in so far as the reserved
rights of the States are concerned. AS
| hav already intimated, when IIamil-
ton a failed in his vile attempt TO
establish a Strong, Centralized Gov
he SO much hungered after.
he determined to stretch the LETTER
of the Constitution as first adopted to
the almost possible limit. making 1t
elastic and plant. and equal to the
demands of his own i~nnoVating, ag-
9ressiVe, grasping genius and as far
as possible he aSSume mplled pow
ers. This was the key to his attempts
upon the fundamental law. He found
help and comfort under some of the
~centralizing rulings of the great Chief
Justice. John Marshall. jefferson was
fixed. brave, resolute, true. and he
champiOned the cause of the People
in their freedom and equal rights.
Hamilton sought to hav "a coerciVe
union" his ideal being the British
Constitution unWritten as 1t was. he
very unwisely. inOpportunely, AFRO
gantlv, ViciOuSly sought to fashion q
Constitution for American freemen,
allSl q Z VI y or NN'ti AD' ilA1> i~N>
ence. modelled after another ConSti-
tuition that allowed the right of Suf-
frage then to but a favored few of
British subjects, and sustained a cor
rupt ministry in buying and perpetuat-
ing their lease of office by bribeS and
corruption VIGOROUSLY conspicuous.
Read Green and Macaulay and learn
| more of this.
In the Convention that framed the
Constitution Hamilton, the monarchls5
was for Il complete extinction Of tie
States. He did not believe that a
General Government II State Gov
could cO-eXist. Beng no
friend of the People and having no
confidence in them, he was unWilnrS
to trust them. He cOntended that
''the people are turbulen and chang
| ing: they seldom Judge or determine
right He had as low an opinion Of
the people of his time as the North
has had of the South, or as some sons
of North Carolina living now in the
North or seeking Northern favor
through misrepresentation of theif
own people. have presented as thel
view of the best people in all south
land. and. therefore, the very BEST II
this whole land. or in the world. Ham
iItOn wanted a President. Senate anC
Supreme Court for life. and it IS thu
curse of his country that as to lhs
l. last named it is chOSen for life. n
, wrong must be righted. Hamilton ia
vored giving the President the power
to negative all laws" He admitted
that his malicious, traitorous pla'
was very far from the people Very
FAR indeed. and very treacherously ant
cruelty so. such was in part Hamll'
tonianism. 1t survives to this day
more or less. scattered around IN thf
South, and largely developed ana as
gressive in the North. But the day
of accoun is approaching. 1t l.
known that while Washington was un'
der Hamilton's fearful influence Ii,
little. that he learned to regret pro
foundly many things that occurred
But for his firmneSS asserted at Ger
tain times, it was believed that tn,
new Government would ave ceased o.
been completely revolutioniZed from
the start. one great mar anC
staunch patriot saved us from such
sad fate later.
jefferson was the man of the PEG
ple-the aIemOS. He. it was, with
genius even greater than that of Ham
ilton. who met the dogmas and usur
nations of the ''monocrat," the abb
Secretary of the Treasury. He oppos
ed Kingcraft. statecraft. and Aristo
craft. and stood by the People an,
he States. Before MI. Jefferson ha,
written the Declaration of l~ndepend
ence for the Colonies, he had declar
ed that they We're free and had bee
ALWAYS free States. SO he held, am
he drew the celebrated Declaratioi
in accordance with that theory. !
declared emphatically that they wet'
free, and not that the document mad
them free. It was this great Virginia.
who instituted the Virginia Comm.
tee Of Correspondence, with a View t
5 a Confederation Of the Colonies. II
was a man of uncommon .stutenes
and foresight. He looked ahead. II
f~orecasted the future. He said tia
: when we get piled upon one anoth9
. in IaIOra .nitin- 90 i'm INIrOnG we SnH
J become as corrupt as in Europe, an
go to eating one another as they Il
= there" Prophetic truly. and 1t We
/ eighty or ninety years ago since II
= said that, and saw that. There We1
Q no cities then Of much size or cor