El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-29

I arches, who feared autocratic power
/ who had led the revolution Of 1876,
! who had inveighed against the alien
and sedition laws, who had supported
| the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions.
! feared the menace of military pOw"r
| more than they feared the stagnatio1
! o. commerce. jefferson had made his
/ will the Will of the people Of the no
/ ton and he was opposed to a standing
/ army and to a navy with all the zeal IF
! fanatic. Therefore there was no Amer
! lean navy capable of opposing the
English navy, and the American mer-
! chant marine was defenceless.
When Jefferson came into power he
! found it expedient and necessary to
! abandon in part his extreme ideas as
to the strict construction of the con-
| situation. He himself admitted
| that he stretched the constitution
until it cracked when he pur-
/ chased Louisiana from the French
When the alien and sedition laws IF
the Adams administration were op
posed by the radical states rights
propa uganda embodied in the Kentuck-
and Virginia resolutions, the Federal
lists had accused the Democrats of IN
spring to disrupt the union. When
Jefferson purchased Louisiana the New
England Federalists began to talk %
secession.
Congress Gives Crushing Blow.
Unable and unwilling to protect
American shipping from European IN
suits by war, Jefferson and the Demo-
cratic congress passed the embargo
act which forbade American ships 20
sail from American ports to the ports
of any foreign countries. Suddenly
the great merchant marine which haI
been seriously crippled by British and
ly destroyed by an American act of
congress. The embargo created the
greatest indignation in New England.
but it caused even greater suffering in
the strongly Democratic states Of the
south. New England still had It's fish
cries, and it's budding manufactures.
The embargo act was most complete
protection against foreign competition
and the manufacturing state of Penn
sylvania profited more than it Loss
But Virginia was paralyZed-
The Federalists made the mistake
Of openly sympathizing with England
and of tacitly encouraging disunion-
ism. The campaign of 1908 was bit
terly fought but the Federalists were
under suspicion OF disloya1ty and tie
Democrats achieved another over
whelming party victory. The embargo
act was Repealed and noniutercouss
o. forbidding all commerce prohibited
only that with England and France.
In the meantime the British AFRO
gance was becoming more and more in =
tolera bic. British warships insolen~ly
patroIed the entrances to Chesapeake
Bay in New York harbor. The Brit <
ship Leopard captured and searched
the American frigate- Chesapeake with
in q few miles OF Norfolk. The people
furiOuS hIlf neither jefferson MIR
Madison was willing TO go to war 10
ave1ge the honor OF the republic.
The Campaign of 1910.
the people of the whole country were
furious against England. With ore
voice they cried for war. They disal.-
proved of the weak and vaccilatine
policy of Madison and Jefferson, bu
they hated even more the Federalism
who were openly sympathizing vi;
England. They resolved to elect
congress which would substitute az
gressive measures for defensive poll
cies, and yet they were unwilling t.
turn out the Democrats by voting
the Federalists-
In nearly every congressional dis
trist in the whole country the younSe~
and more hot-headed element in the
Democratic party put forward a canii-
date for congress who was pledged 10
the policy Of aggression, even to nc
extent Of favoring a second war wits
England. These candidates were nearly
all young men, and the movement re
sponsible for their candidacy took u
the name of Young America" an
they were known as Young Repu1
licans." Their political standing w@s
very much the same as that of The
insurgent Republicans who are now. /