The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-11-26
GEORGE GRAHAM VEST
By JOHN GOODE

were freely made against Mr. Nest on
account Of his participation II ths
trial and he determined 70 remain IN
Missouri and face the ~ohseqdehcf7
whatever they might be II was
thus that hc abandoned his CON
templated trip t. California
to which place he had deter
mined 70 go in order to practice ms
profession. He delivered an address
on Thomas Jefferson in June 1905, at
Columbia. No. in which, among other
things he quoted from he
address which ne said mould be class
Cd with Washtngton's Farewell ad-
dress. He sums up the Drlnclpal
points in the inaugural as follows:
Equal and exact justice TO all men
If whatever state or puaslon, re-
Hgious or political. peace, commerce
and honest friendship with the ma
ti0ns. entangIing alliances with none
the supper Of the State governments
in all their rights as the most coflpe-
tent administration for our domestic
concerns ana the surest guarantee
ags inst Republican tendencies
the preservation Of the general govern
memt in its whole constitutional vlgor
as the sheet anchor OF our peace at
home and safety abroad; a ~ealou
care OF the right OF election by the
people. a shield and safe corrective OF
abuses which are Topped by the sword
OF revolution when peaceable rene
dies are unproYided: absolute acquies-
aence in tbs decision of the majority,
the vital principle of Republfcanlsm,
from which there is no appeal, but to
force the viii principle and immediate
source Of deSpOtiSm; Il well dISclpllned
militia our best reliance in peace, and
for the first moments OF war When
the regulars may relieve them; the
supremacy Of the civil over the mill
tary authorities; economy in the pub
H., .--1,1n thax To Inp n l. no LIGHTLY
burdened: the honest payment of our
debts and sacred preservation of the
public faith; encouragement of agri-
culture and of as its hand
maids; the diffusing of information
and the arraignment of all buses at
the bar of public reason; freedom of
speech, freedom of the press, freedom
of persons under the protection of the
States and trial by juries impartially
selected"
Mr.. Vest was an ardent and devoted
dmirer of Thomas Jefferson. he be-
longed to the State Rights School of
Party Politics and was a strict con-
structioniSt of the straighteSt sect. He
considered Mr.. Jefferson one of the
most remarkable men of the age in
which he lived and delighted always
to listen to his philosophical disquisi-
tons upon the true principles of gov
eminent and the inalienable rights of
man.
In a speech on Hawaii delivered in
the senate on February %, 1903, in
speaking of our Philippine possessions.
he said: us this a Republic or an
Umpire? If you can ignore the Con
stitution, trouble pom all that we have
been taught as a people to believe for
a hundred years and in order to Sc
cure the votes to retain your party
in power, appeal to the glamour of
conquest. gold and glory, Mr.. Presi-
1o-+ A,,r ~-:,,a;,1a- .Af Dnn,,b1.oa -
and Democracy are the greatest ira
vesty in public life. I am no Cas-
sandra shrieking calamity through the
streets of Troy. but if the people of
this country deliberately or the first
of November endorse the position the
Republican party assumes today, then
we should pass an act in the State of
New york, should pass an act taking