The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-01-23
HAMILTON vs.. JEFFERSON

and Lodge extolf the part performed
by Mr. Alexander Hamilton in the
formation of the government in the
most extravagant terms, while they
minimize the Importance of the
measures advocated by Mr.. Jefferson
and depict his character in the most
unfavorable light.
So far as this History of the Uni.
ted States" has to do with the author
of the Declaration of independence
and founder of the Democratic party
it is amazingly unhistoric.
We give quotation:
Jefferson, fresh from the ultra
Democratic society of revolutionary
Paris, his head filled with Jacobin
ideas, looked with aversion upon the
centralizing schemes of Hamilton and
the undemOcratic ways of the Federal
lists.
Jefferson was by nature suspicious
and soon came to believe that the
Federalists under the leadership OF
Hamilton were plotting to overthrow
the republic and establish a mon
archy.
Selling upon bits of conversation
and current gossip, he magnified
them into full Pledged conspiracies to
destroy the republic
OF the services of Mr.. Hamilton
Messrs. Garner and lodge speak in
the following high praise,
"HamiItons services to the United
States in organizing the finances and
establishing the public credit were of
the first order
1T was due to him more than any
other man that the foundation of our
government in all financial matters
were laid in honesty and integrity"
Yet Mr.. Hamilton's first funding
act created a scandal more fierce
than any of the financial scandals
that followed it,
The whole story may be found in
"The Writings of Thomas Jefferson
in his "Anas,' vol.1, pages 265-2S5.
AS to Mr.. Hamilton's tendencies to
monarchism, Mr.. Jefferson says:
Hamilton was not only a mon
archist, but for monarchy bottomed
on corruption.
"In proof of this | will relate an
anecdote, for the truth of which I
attest the God who made me. Before
the president set out on his Southern
tour in April, 1871, he addressed a
letter of the fourth of that month.
from Mount Vernon, to the secreta-
ries of state, treasury and war. desir-
ing that if any serious and important
cases should arise during his absence,
they would consult and act upon
them. And he requested also that
the vice president should also be con-
suited. This was the only occasion
on which that officer was ever re-
quested to take part in cabinet
question. Some occasion for consulta-
ton arising | invited those gentlemen,
and the attorney general as WE'LL to
dine with me, in order to confer on
the subject. After the cloth was-fe-
moved, and our question agreed and |
conversation began on
other matters, and by some circum-
stance, was led to the British consti- |
tuition, on which Mr. Adams observ- |
corruption, and give to it's popular /
branch equality of representation and |
it would be the most perfect constitu- |
ton ever devised by the wit of man !!
Hamilton paused and said: Purge |
1t of its corruption, and give to its
popular branch equality of represen-
tation, and it would become an inn
government: as it stands |
at present, with all its supposed de- !
fects, it is the most perfect govern
ment which ever existed"
This" continued Mr.. Jefferson, !
was assuredly the exact line. which |
separated the political creeds of these |
two gentlemen. The one was for here |
tary branches and an honest elective |
one; the other. for an hereditary |
King, with a house of Lodrs and Com
mons corrupted to his will, and stand !
ing between him and the people"
In other respects Mr. Jefferson said |
of Alexander Hamilton:
Hamilton was, indeed, a singular |
character OF acute understanding, |
hsinterested, honest, and honorable |
in all private transactions. amiable in /
society, and dulyvaluing virtue in |
private life. yet 50 bewitched and per
verified by the British example as to |
De under thorough conviction that |
was essential to the /
government of a nation
OF Mr.. Adams he says:
Mr.. Adams had originally been a |
republican. The glare of royalty and /
during his mission to Eng |
land, had made him believe their fas- |
necessary ingredient in /
government; and Shay's rebellion, not |
sufficiently understood where he then |
was. seemed to prove that the ab /
sence of want and oppression was not
a sufficient guarantee of order. His I
book on the American constitutions |
having made known his political bias. /
he was taken up by the monarchial /
Federalists in his absence. and ON his |
return to the United States he was by /
them made to believe that the general /
of our citizens was favor |
able to monarchy"
He here wrote his 'Davila,' as a |