The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-09

tax shall be laid unless in proportion
to the census or enumeration hereto
! fore directed to be taken"
The meaning of this clause Is also
clear: That in event the revenue
| from duties were not sufflclent 10
meet the expense of the federal gov
eminent, that direct tax could be
laid on the states, according to the
population of each state and eacn
state would share in the burden in pro-
portion to population.
These are the great principles OF
Thomas Jefferson and upon which our
constitution is founded.
At the time of the adoption of the
constitution and these principles, there
were two distinct political parties, and
since that time up to the. present
1 there has been two great political
parties, but no matter which party IS
in power. they are presumed to carry
out these principles.
1t is appalling to observe in what
manner the Republican party, coming
into power of the federal government
by proclaiming that the principles OF
Thomas Jefferson were being invaded
by the democrats, and when once in
power, proceeded to carry out policy
destructive of the principles OF JEFF
ferson, making more expeditions the
task of diverting the federal govern
ment into an institution of supply for
the most destructive practices, to
free republican government
The policies put into operation by
the Republican party are foreign to
and dangerously inconsistent with the
H. e off
! Abraham Lincoln, and in order that
the people may see, will quote here
a letter which was written by him 10
/ H. L. Pierce and others on the sixth
day of April, 1859, which was in reply
to an invitation to attend banquet
given in Boston in honor of the birth
day of Thomas Jefferson:
ITO Fl. l.. Pierce and Others,
i Springfield, Ill, April 6, 1859.
/ Gentlemen: Your kind note, invit.
ing me to attend a festival in Boston,
on the Sth instant, in honor of the
birthday of Thomas Jefferson, was
duly received. My engagements are
such that l cannot come.
Bearing in mind that about seven.
ty years ago, two great political par
ties were first formed in this country.
that Thomas Jefferson was the head
of one of them and Boston the head
iquarters of the other, it is both curl
} Gus and interesting that those suppos-
ed to descend politically from the par
ty opposed to Jefferson should now
, be celebrating his birthday In their
J own original seat and empire, while
J those claiming political descent from
him have nearly ceased to breathe his
J name everywhere.
Remembering, too, that the Jeffer
son party formed upon the supposed
superior devotion to the personal
rights of property to be secondary
; only and greatly inferior, and assum
ing that the so-called democracy OF
today are the Jefferson, and their op
ponents the anti-Jefferson party, ii
would be equally interesting to note
! how completely the two have changed
: hands as to the principles upon which
] they were originally supposed to be
divided. The democracy of today hold
the liberty of one man to be abso
lutely nothing, when in conflict with
another mans right of property; re
lpublicans on the contrary are for botf
man and the dollar, but in case of con
flict, the man before the dollar.
Il remember being very much
amused at seeing two partially intoxi
LphlCu uICf thSdSCu III d AShI Will
their great coats on, which fight, aftel
/ a long and rather harmless contest
ended in each having fought himsel
out of his own coat, and into tina. O
the other. If the two leading partie.
: of this day are equally identical witt
the two in the days of Jefferson anC
: Adams, they have performed the sam.
: feat as the two drunken men.
: But soberly, it is row no child
play to save the principles of Jeffer
son from total overthrow in this ma
ton. One would state with great con
7 fidence that he could convince an,
: zane child that the simpler propose
ton of Euclid are true, but neverthe
, less he would fail utterly, with on
who should deny definitions an
: axioms.
, The principles of Jefferson are tn
definitions and exioms of free societ
: and yet they are denied and evade
I with no small show of success. On
e dashingly calls them glittering ger
: eralities.' Another bluntly calls the1
p 'self-evident lies and others insidiout
Q ly argue that they apply to 'superio
e races These expressions differing
e form, are identical in object and effec
the supplanting of the principles {
! free government, and restoring thos
d of classification. caste and Legitimate,
d They would delight convocation {
e crowned heads, plotting against tn
people. They are the vanguard, tn
D miners and sappers of returning d.
t spotism. We must repulse them {
+ they will subjugate us. This is
r world of compensation; and he VIII
would be no slave must consent /
|. have no slave. Those who derry fire
II dom to others deserve it not fl
u themselves, and under a just Go
n cannot long retain it. All honor I
e Jefferson, to the man who in the Co
crete pressure of a struggle for n
? tional independence by a single peopl
2 had the GOODNESS, fOrecaste and S
t gacity to introduce into a merely re