Download or read book The Great Fraud Upon the Public Credulity in the Organization of the Republican Party written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Great Fraud Upon the Public Credulity in the Organization of the Republican Party: Upon the Ruins of the "Whig Party," It was one of the maxims of our revolutionary fathers that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles was indispensable to the preservation of a free government; and, that we may be the better prepared to discharge our duty at this time, let us in the observance of this injunction, take a retrospect of events connected with, and immediately following, the adoption of our constitution, and of the circumstances which led to the formation of the two parties which have heretofore controlled the destinies of this country. The great difference which characterized the political actors of that period, and gave tone and consistency to the peculiar sentiments of the two parties, arose out of the views respectively entertained by them as to the powers of the federal government under the constitution, and the fundamental principle of the capacity of the people for self-government. One party, headed by Alexander Hamilton, desired immense powers to be vested in this government, and, as a necessary consequence, rejected the idea that the great body of the people were capable of self-goverament. In accordance with these principles the sovereignty and powers of the respective States would be curtailed to the extent of the enlargement of powers made in favor of the federal government; and that party has ever since attempted to assume and to acquire for this government, by a latitudinous construction of the language of the constitution, powers not expressly granted by that instrument. The other party, led by Thomas Jefferson, was in favor of reserving to the States all power as far as practicable, and of delegating to the federal government only such as were absolutely necessary for the good of the whole country, and requisite for the transaction of affairs appertaining to a community of interests. This party regarded the capacity and right of the people to govern themselves as one of the indispensable elements of a republican government, in support of which, and in answer to the contrary doctrine of the Hamilton school, Mr. Jefferson made this brief but conclusive argument. He said: "I know, indeed, that some fear that a republican government cannot be strong; that this government is not strong enough. But would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which had so far kept us free and firm, on the theoretic and visionary fear that this government - the world's best hope - may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest government on earth. I believe it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his own personal concern. Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer the question." The Jeffersonian doctrine prevailed, and the constitution was acknowledged by all to be the supreme law of the land. But each party deduced from it a course of policy in conformity with their original views of fundamental principles - the one based upon a wide and loose construction of that instrument, with a system of measures pointing to a centralization of power in the federal government, and tending invariably to favor the few at the expense of the many in whom they avowed a want of confidence, and from whom they withheld all sympathy; and hence their support of monopolies in various forms, and their continued tendency to encroach upon the rights of the States. The other, or Jeffersonian school, founded their policy and measures upon a strict construction of the constitution and a sacred regard for the rights of the States, with a f
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Download or read book The Great Fraud Upon the Public Credulity in the Organization of the Republican Party Upon the Ruins of the Whig Party an Address to the Oldline Whig written by Whig Party and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1856 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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