New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-01

read and write" To Frenchman, the
Able Almond. he wrote: The people
are not qualified to legislate. With us
therefore they only choose the legis4
lators," To Lafayette he wrote: "A
full measure Of liberty is not now per-
haps to be expected by your nation, nor
am l confident they are prepared to
preserve IT, More than a generation
will be requisite, under the application
o. reasonable laws. favoring the prog
reSs of knowledge in the great mass Of
the people, and their habituation to an
Independent security Of person and
property. before they will be capable Of
estimating the value Of freedom and
the necessity of a sacred adherence 70
the principles on which IL rests for
preservation. Instead of that liberty
which takes root and growth in the
progress of reason, if recovered by mere
force or accident, it becomes with an
unprepared people tyranny still, OF
the many, the few, or the one" And In
curious contrast with his political de-
scendants, who now wish to have the
decisions Of the highest courts re-
viewed or even reversed at popular
elections, he said bluntly: THE people
are not qualified to Judge questions OF
law" To. NJ. Coray he wrote: Mod
ern times have discovered the only de-
vice by which the peoples rights can
be secured, to-wit: Government by The
people. acting not in person, but by
representatives chosen by themselves
that Is to say, by every man of ripe
years and sane mind, who either con-
tributes by his purse or his person to
the support Of his country
He reconciled his personal feeling
with holding office almost continuously
for forty years; but when he became
President he was vehemently In favor
Of rotation in office, and was the author
Of the doctrine that ito the victors be-
long the spoils."
He exhorted Albert Gallattin TO put
down the banks; and If this country
cannot be carried through the longest
war against the most poWertui enemy
without ever knowing the want VI
dollar, without dependence on the trait
orous classes of her citizens WITHOUT
hearing hard on the resources OF the
people, or loading the public Win an
Infamous burden Of debt, kno" noun
ing Of my countrymen."
an perfect and universal free trade
no discovered another OF the natural
rights OF men. am for free commerce
With all nations, political connections
NTH none and little or no diplomatic
establishment"
He was opposed to building up man
ufacturing establishments. Let our
workshops remain In Europe In a
letter to John Jay he wrote: Il consi1- .
or the class Of artifcers as panderers
~ vice and the instruments BY which
the liberties Of a country are sener-
div overthrown." He even considered
yellow fever a providential blessing
becsuse ut will discourage the grown
If great cities in our nation, and We"
these great cities as pestilential 10 inc
,,,oraIs 70 the health and to the Ao-
critics Of mankind"
He wrote that he was mot TIsHl
TO a very energetic government II was
always oppressive" Elsewhere he 1e-
cIared "A free government is OF adj
others the most energetic
An Enemy Of Titles.
ua was so stepped in the Frencl
ideas OF universal equality and the 1T
nortance OF addressing everybody mere
" as Citizen" that he wrote: I nope
that the terms Excellency' Honor "oF-
shin ESQUIRE, will forever disappear
from among us. wish that OF M'S'e'
to follow them"
His hostility to the Constitution was
not concealed. To John Adams No
said. 'I confess there are things IN II
which stageer all my dispositions 70
subscribe to what such an assembly
has nroposed. The President seems
had edition of Polish king 10
James Madison he said:
THE second feature I dislike, ano
what I strongly dislike is the ABANDON
ment. in every instance, OF the princ''
pie Of rotation in Office" With ehaF'
acteristic inconsistency he afterwafa
wrote to James Madison In ls9s'
mo Constitution was ever before So
we'll calculated as ours for extensl'e
empire and self-government." Yet 70
the same man he had written, from tnS
midst Of the French Revolution, depfe'
eating the idea that Shays's Reoelhon
constituted a reason for Fastening 'no
adoption of the Constitution, or max
inc q q strong one. God forbid, 10
exclaimed, that we should be t"sh"
wears without a rebellion. we nave
had thirteen states Independent ior
eleven years. There has been but ono
rebellion. That comes TO one reoeia0n
IN a century and a half for each stare
What country ever existed century
and a half without a rebellion: "h"s
signifies a few lives lost in century VI
two? The tree Of liberty must De TO
frashed from time to time with tno
blood OF patriots and tyrants' anu
finally he referred TO the Const'u''O''
"as kite sent up to keep the heH'S'N