The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-05-27

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or loved il. but that he thought ii bet
ter than the articles OF confederation.
because it lodged more power in the
federal establishment.
AS the secretary of the treasury in
Washington's cabinet he was at his
/ greatest He had the gift of organi-
zation. and he brought order out of
| chaos; but he had too much mental
/ integrity or mental pride to pretend
that the protective system was not a
hardship on the people. And Mr..
I Stanley quoted from him some lam
guege that sounds marvelously Dem
I ocratic on the tariff question.
Mr.. Dalzell made this declaration:
He certainly is a bold man who. in
I the face Of history, contends today
THAI the permanent policies which
have entered into the statutes and
character Of our nation are not the
/ policies dictated by Hamilton and his
followers
And to that Mr.. Stanley retorted:
"HerC ny temerity may argue more
than my Judgment. but | deny IT,
There Tever was a deduction mere alb
snlutely unfounded hurled defantly
into the teeth Of history.
What were the policies of Alexan.
der Hamilton?
He would have had q president for
liie-he is elected every four years.
He would have senators during
good behavior-they serve a fixed and
definite term of six years.
He would have the executive arm
ed with an absolute veto-you can by
twO-thirds majority annul that veto.
He would have muzzled free speech
Jefferson opened the deliberations of
this house to the naked view and can
did criticism of free and untram.
neled press.
He defended the alien and sedition
laws-they are repealed. He founded
a national bank-it is demolished. All
his cherished and Wanted schemes
are gone glimmering in the dream of
things that were exploded fallacies,
they litter the debris OF history.
Il challenge the gentleman from
Pennsylvania to give me one single
solitary policy of Hamilton which was
ever crystallized into law that lived.
His policies are gone, his followers are
dead. There are only left his apollo
gists and his eulogists."
II Jefferson had not come back from
France when he did it is more than
possible that the colonies would havo
sought the protection Of England. and
that would have resulted in a return
of allegiance to the British flag When
the French revolution came it was
hailed with approval by the best Of
the intellectual world, including Ed
mund Burke, Charles James Fox.
Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine
1t was the revolt Of liberty against
despotism, the long-delayed triumph
of light over darkness; but in the
compensations OF human affairs the
atrocities of the Terror were common
surate with the centuries of enormities
that privilege had perpetuated in
France, and there was a revulsion of
public opinion. Even Burke became
the most formidable of all the adver-
saries of the revolution he had ap-
plauded. Hamilton agreed with Burke,
and so did a far greater than Hamil-
ton-even George Washington.
There was actual war between
France and the United States, and nu-
merous battles fought on the water
between the two powers. Washington
was again appointed commander-in-
chief, and chose Hamilton as his chief
lieutenant. England and France were
in a death grapple. Had war been
morally certain that British rule would
have been re-established in our coun-
try. Jefferson prevented that war,
and by that act he saved the Union.
Mr. Dalzell had the temerity to chal.
lenge the conduct of Jefferson in the
acquisition of Louisiana and asserted
that the thing was accomplished in
spite of Jefferson. And now ii was
that the Lord delivered the accom-
plished Pennsylvania into the hands
of the brilliant Kentuckian. Stephen
A. Douglas, in reply to Seward, did
not tower above his adversary more
than did Stanley over Dali
zell. It was this part of the speech
that showed what a genius for re-
search is possessed by the gifted ora
tor from the Second Kentucky district !
1t is too long to quote. One must read |
it entirely to get proper conception |
of it. II is not at all remarkable that |
Mr.. Dslzell was content to allow that |
the debate is closed incident. Every |
onlooker in our political |
Vienna should read Dalzell's speech |
and then read Stanley's reply.
When Stanley came to discuss the |
duel between Burr and Hamilton ht !
put an entirely new phase on the con-
troversy. Hamilton was believer in |
the code. He was on the field as
second In the duel with Cen
eral Charles Lee. He sought quarrel |
with John Adams that could have been
settled, according to his ideas of per-
sonal honor, only on the field. He
lanes Monroe and Would |