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A History of the , Great Struggle in
America between Liberty
and Despotism.
Thai the character of Alexander Ham
ilton, the lead& of the party which is now
ruling ' this nation may be more fully
known, a further history from the "Lif.
and writingsdaT John Adams" is selected
for this number: .
"The retirement of Washington from
the Presidency, removed the last check
upon the fury, of parties. Nobody else
stood in the same relation to the whale
people. No expectation was entertained
that the person about to Succeed him in
(ACC would he chosen by any general
agreement. !He was to be elected
by the one or the other of the par
ties into which the country was equally
divided. The statesman whoin the Re
publicans would sustain with the greatest
nnaniimity, was Thomas Jefferson. A
portion of the Federalists reposed implic
it confidence in Alexander Hamilton. But
this confidence was not shared by the
people at large, and an attempt to oppose
him to Thomas Jefferson would be futile.
Two other persons were particularly
prominent—John Adams and John Jay.
.51r. Jay, however, had latterly been se
verely handled on•account of his agency
in negotiating the treaty with Great
Britain, which so narrowly escaped rejec
tion. ,The only effective counterbalance
to Mr. Jefferson was John Adams. Un
fortunately, however, fur this decision,the
indispensable element to success was
overlooked. That element was perfect
good faith. Had it been entirely preserv
ed, the Federalists would, even from
their reduced vantage ground, have been
able for some years longer to breast all
opposition. But it was not. The fact is
beyond dispute, that a clandestine effort
was made at this election to set aside the
person who had been openly adopted as
the candidate of the Federal party, in fa
vor lofanother individual.
"This attempt was originated by Mr.
llatnilton, and carried on by his particu
lar friends in and out of New England.—
The:mode selected was a perversion of
tire spirit, if not of the letter of the Con
stitutton. Every elector of President,
and Vice President was directed to vote
for two persons without designating the
office to which either was to be elevated.
The consequence might easily follow in a
sharply contested election, that, with a
little collmion on the part of two or three
electors in scattering here and there a
vote, the person realty iptended for.the
second office would be found to have Endre
votes than he who had-been selected to
fill the first.
"Thomas Pinckney, of South Carolina,
the individual in whose favor this secret
dive-sion was attemp. el, was so little
known by the great body of Federalists,
as scarcely to be relied upon to be one of
their number. He had never been seri
ously spoken of as a successor to Wash
ington, so that, had. he been actually ad
vanced to that position by virtue of this
device, his election would never have
been regarded in any other light than as
a shrewd trick, to be sanctioned only by
its success.
" Atki t turned out, the scheme utterly
failed. But even the attempt was atten
ded with the most fatal consequences to
the Federal party. It made the first spot
on their good name, and was ominous of
the darker designs Which were to follow.
Mutual cenfiden s ce ceased to exist, and the
rst , 'Sign. of ditiaster immediately appear
ed. . A rumor got abroad, and spread dis
trust into every college of Federal elec
tors; . Those ,of them who meant .to act
in god faith to lilr. Adams, determined
at all hazards to cut off the possibility of
such a result. As a consequence, eighteen
'iu , New Enpland alone, who voted for
him / gave their second vote for some oth
er person than Mr. Pincknef: The end
of It u as, his failure to, gain the
second place for which he had been tho't
of. The aggregate number of votes for
him was only 59, while that given to Mr.
Jeffeison was 68. Hence, under the ope
ration of the Constitution, Mr. Jefferson,
though really the competitor for the
Presidency, yet standing second on the 1
list of suffrages, became the Vice Presi
dent for four years. The great opponent
of the Federalists was thus put in a con
spicuous place forthe succession, by the
very act of those Vho entertained a dread
amounting almost to a mania' of the bare
Possibility of his elevation.
"Neither is this the only instance furn
ished by the recoeds of a popular govern.
ment, of the meatier in which the keenest
political contrivances are apt not only to
baffle all the expectations formed of them,
but to precipitate the very results against
winch they were designed most seditious,
ly to provide. The election proved a ve
ry close -one. Mr. Adams received 71
votes—one more than the requisite num
ber. But the quarter from
_which be ob
tained"thein betrayed . changes adverse to
the furtheb ascendancy of tbe Federalists.
'Pennsylvania now, for the first time in 20
yenrs:deserted Massachusetts. Her elec
ting w!th one (*two exceptions, voted
for
tore,
A single voice in,. Vir
ginial and one in Borth Carolina, turned
the Scale: Ilad these been 'given to Mr.
==EI
For the Democrat.
MONTROSE, PA., TUESDAY, FEB. 19, 1867.
Jefferson be would have been - President."
We now behold this same party resort
ing to these same practices for which
they were famed at that early day: A
minute history of those transactions at
time will be given hereafter by Jefferson
himself and others engaged in the scenes
as they transpired. But here is a history
of that party by a member thereof, which
paints their character in the darkest hues.
They are described as a treacherous, de
ceitful, dishonest and intriguing party.—
They could resort to any " trick' , or " de
vice, ' even to the destruction of their
own friends, if .by the aid of those
tricks and devices they could prevent
Democratic principles from triumphing
and prevailing in the nation. They could
even go to South Carolina for a President,
and elect a slaveholder over a non-slave
holder of Massachusetts holding the same
principles, for the sake of crushing out the
Democracy.
"They entertained a dread amounting
almost to a mania of the bare idea that
the author of the Declaration of Indepen
dence should hold any office under the
United States government. Here is proof
incontrovertible that it was not slavery
against which those pious souls enter
tained such holy horror, but Democracy
--‘ equal rights for all white MOH: "
Another Presidential election carne,alid
four years of reflection found them no
nearer a belief in the equality of their own
race than before, nor any purer in charac
ter or morals. Their " darker designs"
are brought to light by the same histori
an, Mr. Charles F. Adams. Ile says :
"The election in 1800 threw both the
Federal candidates, John Adams and C.
C. Pinckney aside, and elevated Jefferson
and Burr, both receiving the same num
ber of votes. The choice of the Federal
ists therefore was between these two.—
There was not a doubt in the mind of a
single member of the House, which of the
two the people intended to make Presi
dent. Yet such is the strength of party
passion, that no calculation of what will
be done can ever be based upon abstract
consideration of expediency or right.
"Tbe Federalists controlled the votes
of six States, and neutralized two more-
There were 16 States, 9 of which were
necessary to elect. But Mr. Jefferson had
only Bin his favor. He could not there
fore be chosen without their consent, ex
press or implied. It was enough that
they had the power to change the result,
for them to be tempted to use it. The
combined fear and hatred of Mr. Jeffer
son led them to give the preference to
Mr. Burr. The violation of the spirit of
a popular election by a perversion of its
forms had already been made familiar so
to them by the sanction of Mr. Hamilton,
that they were little moved by his re
monstrances, now that they were earnest
ly applied to to prevent this to him un
welcome result. Mr: Hamilton was not
averse to any refinement of policy short
of actually electing Mr. Burr.' He wrote
to Mr. Wolcott, that it might be well en
ough to throw out a lure to Mr. Burr, in
order to tempt him to start for the plate,
and then lay the foundation of dissension
between the two chiefs."
But, further than this he was unwilling
to go. To him, Burr was the more foftrii
dable of all his opponents, because he liv
ed on his own ground, and baffled him at
every turn. But the Federalists, being
mostly from the Northern States, sympa
thized the more with Burr for that very
reason. Thus it happened that the Fed
eralists took a course, success in which,
would have proved a misfortune, and
wherein failure sunk them forever in the
public esteem. The triumph of Jefferson
gave so great an impulse to the vittors,
that no credit was ever awarded to the
Federalists through whom it was attain
ed. In all political strokes no medium is
to be found between success and utter ru
in. The great Federal party sunk into
obscurity and disgrace, martyr to the false
and unmoral maxim, that "the end will
sometimes justify bad means."
This is the history of these evils by the
Grandson of John Adams. In 1809 Mr.
Adorns himself wrote as follows :
" I was assured that the Federalists in
New York with Hamilton at their head,
bad in secret caucus agreed to sacrifice
Adams. If your namesake was now alive
he could inform you as be did me, of. his
indignation against the treachery of my
pretended Federal friends. I bad other
informations from other quarters, that at
the meeting of the Cinncinnatti in New
York, when they chose Hamilton for their
President General, it was agreed, and the
learned doctors bf Divinity, (and these
were several of thoie present,) concurred
in the pions project, and the pions lan
guage, to sacrifice Adams and bring in
Pickney. The intrigues they practised to
accomplish this, were very extensive and
very jesuitical. The Boston and the
Pennsylvania, if not the South Carolina
Federal leaders were in the same plot.
They were asssisted too by the .publics-'
Cons in England. I know that French
[ influence drove me into banishment, but
it oould not havebad the power, if it bad
I not been essentially assisted ky the phari
saical, jesuitical intrigues and influence of
the leading Federalists."
Here is what a Massachisetts Federal
ist thought of mixing religion and poli
.
tics when be had to be sacrificed thereby.
These phaiisicial, jesuitical intriguers, the
Rev. Doctors of Divinity in New York,
concurred in the pious project•of bringing
in a Southern Slaveholder for President
of the United States. Thus showing their
willingness to have slavery rule the na
tion, if it would only rule it in the inter
est of Federalism. What made slavery
so wicked in their eyes, was because
Southern statesmen could not be- won
over to their principles. They preferred
Aaron Burr for President rather than the
founder of religions freedop. It was
probably in view of thejesuitical intrigues
of these Ministers of the Gospel, that
John Adams wrote not long after, " I
would as soon establish the Episcopal
Church, and almost as soon the Catholic
Church, as to promote a national establish
ment of Presbyterianism in America."
Contriving the same wicked plots to
keep themselves in power, those Federal
ists; instead of restoring the Union which
'they pretended was worth sacrificing the
lives of hundreds of thousands of their fel
low beings to preserve, are trampling the
Constitution under their feet, and resort
ing to every trick and device to prevent
the Union from being restored. This his
torian shows how they were twice caught
in their own snares, and at last sank into
obscurity, and disgrace. Let the friends
of liberty therefore, take hope, that the
star of Federalism which is now in the
ascendant, may soon sink to rise no more
forever.
NEW ORLEANS RIOT.
Report of the Committee of Investigation
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11, 1867.
The select committee of Congress, ap
pointed to investigate the riot of July last,
made report to day. The disunion major
ity recommend that a military govern
ment be established in Louisiana in lieu of
civil government.
Minority Report. ,"
Representative B. M. Boyer, of Penn
sylvania, who dissents from the conclu
sions of his colleagues, says the avowed
object of the convention Netts an amend
ment of the existing Constitution of Louis
iana in such manner as to secure to their
party the absolute control of the offices
in the State, negro saffrake and -the dis
franchisement of a sufficient number of
those who bad been connected with the
late rebellion. These were the measures
by which the desired ascendency was to
be obtained. Mr. Boyer proceeds to show
the illegality of the convention, saying the
government which was in force in Lots
tans, under the Constitution of 1861, was
on the 30th of July, 1866, even from the
radical stand point, by that acquiescense,
the consent of Congress, a State, de jure,
as well as a government, de facto, and
binding as such upon all persons within
its jurisdiction. The Conven tionists coun
ted upon Congressional cooperation. Un
der ordinary circumstances, a small body
of men assembling for the purpose of
changing the government of a State, with
so little color of law, might be treated as
a harmless body, and be regarded as enti
tled to but little public notice, but in this
case, the times and circumstances were
extraordinary, and well calculate to ex
cite serious apprehension. A judge of the
Supreme Court was at the head and the
Governor of State encouraged it.
It was given out that Congress had
been consulted, and would lend its ass:s
tance: P;ecediug the action °Ole Con
vention, Juge Howell proceedethozWash
ington to consult in person with the lead
ing members of Congress. He infornied
the committee that he had consulted with
members of Congress, and named the
Hon. Messrs. Boutwell, Stevens, Kelly,
Banks, Grinnell, Morris, Paine and others.
The result was that he returned to New
Orleans and went on with the movement.
The encouragement which Mr. Howell
testified he received at Washington was
made known to the friends of the Conven
tion, perhaps with exaggeration, and on
the 24th of July, six days before the meet
ing, a telegram was sent from New Or
leans to the Washington correspondent of
the New York Times, stating among oth
er things, that Mr. Howell had returned
with assurances that Congress would
support the Convention, &c.
The indorsement and support of Con
gress appears to have been the common
topic of conversation among the Conven
tionists before the 30th of July.
Mr. Boyer, s in reviewing the origin of
the riots, said the Conventionists appeal
ed to the negroes to arouse them, and
their active co operation was invited. It
will be remembered, he says, that the
demonstrations were made in the heart
of the city, yet the speakers were not in
terrupted nor the meeting disturbed. Af
ter the harrangues were over, a proces
-1 sion of between two and three thousand
colored persons, between ten and eleven
o'clock at night, appeared with torch
lights, hurrahing and shouting through
several of the principal streets to the city
Hall.;
There the orowd was addressed by Dr.
Dostie, and exhorted to go home peacea
bly, but to kill any wbo might assail
them. After this no disturbance took
place, and the crowd peaceably dispersed.
Yet no soldiers were engaged, and no po
licemen cared to interfere. May not, be
ask., these acts be cited as striking ovi-
IMMO
dence of the toleration of free speech in
the city of New Orleans at that date ?'
The cause of the riot might be sought
for elsewhere. It was the acts and de
clared intention of the conventionists,
and the illegal and violent proceedings
which produced the excitement and bro't
about the_ collision. The character and
antecedents of the conventionists were
not such as to make them the accepted
standards of Unionism and loyalty in the
locality. The proscription threatened by
such men through the action of the con
vention, must have been peculiarly galling
to those to be affected by their proceed
ings. It bad already been shown that no
interference was made with free speech,
but incendiary appeals and acts of revolu
tion could not be pursued with impunity,
and arrests might properly and' lawfully
be made to arrest the progress of such af
fairs.
Mr. Boyer does not agree with the ma
jority that the riot was deliberatelyplann
ed by Mayor Monroe, l and refers.to the
evidence to show that the first shots fired
were by a negro at a policeman. To
Lieutenant Governor Voorhies (ex-rebel)
belonged the credit of having supplied the
place of his official superior in originating
timely precautionary measures, which if
carried out would have prevented the ri
ot, and which failed from -no fault of his.
In reviewing the comments of the majori
ty of the committee on the course of the
President, Mr. Boyer says the President
'needed no vindication if it were not on
account of the partisan slanders with
whioli he had been so unscrupulously as
sailed during the late election. 4"
It might justly be deemed an offense
against good taste to name him in this
connection. His acts, so far as they had
any bearing upon the circumstances inves
tigated by the committee, exhibited him
in no other light than as a Chief Magis
trate actuated by a sincere desire to pre
serve the public peace, and uphold the
law. Mr. Boyer controverts the views of
the majority, that the riot was to be at ;
tributed to those who are charged with
hostility to the Union, and as proscribing
those from business who are loyal to the
country. Mr. Boyer submits the follow
ing conclusions
First. That the riot of the 30th of July
was a local disturbance, originating in lo
cal circumstances o f great provocation,
and in no wise-the result of any hostility
or disaffection on the part of the commu
nity of New Orleans towards the Federal
Government. It was not, in any just or
fair sense of the term, a vestige or out
crop of the Rebellion, nor can it be said
any indication, even in the remotest de
gree, of a disposition on the part of the
people of tlie. city of New Orleans, or the
State of Louisiana, to renew hostilities in
I any form with the established authorities
either State or Federal.
Second. It would be a monstrous in
justice to hold the whole people of the
State Louisiana accountable for the acts
of those engaged in a riot confined to a
small portion of the city of New Orleans,
and for that cause to abrogate, by act of
Congress, the civil government of that
State, now in peaceful and successful op
eration, would be a usurpation of power
not warranted by the Constitution, and a
gross outrage upon the principles of free
government. •
Third. The riot was provoked . by the
incendiary speeches, revolutionary acts
and violence of the cotiventionists, 'such
as, under circumstances similar, would
probably have led to a riot in any city in
the Union:
Fourth. To provoke .an attack on the
colored population, which was expected
to be suppressed by the military before it
had seriously endangered the white lea
ders, appears to have been part of the
scheme of the conventionists. This would
afford an excuse for Congressional inves
tigation, resulting in Congressional legis
lation favoring the ultimate design of the
conspirators, namely, the destruction of
the existing civil government of Lonisia
na.
Fifth. As respe.ets that part of the res
olution of the House, which makes it a
subject of investigation by the committee
whether, and to what extent those acts
were participated in by the members of
the organization claiming to be the Gov
ernment of Lonisiarla, the following con
clusions submitted.
In no proper sense of the term, and is
in no degree whatever, is the riot of the
30th of July, attributable to the Govern
ment ofLouisiana. If there be any mem - -
hers pf the Government of Louisiana in
whose official or personal acts the remo
test cause of the riot are to be traced,
the chief among them are Judge R. R.
who, as the usurping President
of the minority of an extinct Convention,
headed the conspiracy to overthrow the
State Constitution, which, is Judge of the
Supreme Court, he had sworn to support,
and Governor J. Madison Wells, who lent
to the conspiracy his official sanction, but
on the day of danger deseited his post
without an effort to preserve the public
peace. And if there be any members of
the Federal government who are indirect
ly responsible for the bloody result, they
are those members of the present Con
gress, (whoever they maybe) who ennour
aged these men by . their contisele, and
promised to them their individual and of
ficial support.
{VOLUME XXIV, NUMBER 8.
The Seuate has not yet acted upon the
bill transferring the management of In
dian affairs to ibe War Department. This
is a most important matter, and it, should
be donsummated during the present:4oi
sion. _ •
All who look to the née of opening new
routes of travel from the At'anti° States
to the interior of . the continent, and also
to California, are interested in this ques
tion. It will not do to allow the develop
ment of that vast region to be interfered
with by the conduct of roving bands of
savages. In the spring emigration will
set westward, train after train will leave
the frontier tor the 4nterior and thou
sands of men; - women, and Children will
be subjected to the toils, privations, and
dangers of pioneer life. As the, Pacific
Railroad stretches west, the settlements
will also become more remote from the
States, and hence the impdttanbe of hav
ing the Indians under proper control. If
travel is attended with more than ordina
ry danger, peop'e will not populate the
Territories, and thus the progress of the
oonntg will be retarted, and its revenues
diminished.
The present system of managing the
Indians is a confessed failure. A corres
pondent of one of the Western } papers,
•who had lived among the Indians' for siev-•
eral years, in describing the operations of
the plan now pursued by the government,
says : " Once a year the tribes , on -the
great Western plains and mountains are
assembled around some fort or agency to
receive their annuities and presents. There
too, in spite of all law,. comes the sharper
and the whisky dealer, to ,deal with In
dians as with ignorant children. The gov
ernment pays them money and blankets.,
and lurking around are men who sell them
powder, and ball, and arms. After awhile
their money and provisions are gone, and
then their powdei and ball are used to
kill gome, if they can find enough, and
if not, to rob and kill the emigrats over
the plains. They use ,tho government
subsidies and arms to make war against
our people, when they find it hard to get
subsistence in any other way. Then, be
fore the time for paying them again comes
they are all very innocent—all for peace.
Then they are again paid, and again rob;
and thus this folly continues -to be repeat
ed year after year."
It is now proposed to put a stop-tothis
worse than trifling with the lives of white
people who are compelled to cross the
plains, and by placing the whole care and
management of Indian affairs in the War
Department to secure such a courso of ac
tion as will benefit alike the white man
and the Indian. Experienced army offi
cers are certainly best qualified to deal
with the red men. They know their hab
its, wants and temptations, and can man
age them accordingly. Under this eve
tern, also, they will be free from the ra
pacity of unscrupulous traders, and' the
intercourse of the agents of the govern
ment with them will be of a character to
win their confidence and respect, not to
excite their evil passions. •On the other
hand, they will know that punishment,
'speedy and exemplary, will follow each
.Outrage committed upon the whites, or
even upon' each other. Under such a sys
tem the Indians can be'rnahaged in
Christian and humane manner, and the
Senate should not adjourn without .put
ting this plan in operation by, giving the
necessary power to the War Department.
Injustice to a Faithful Public Servant.
Col. Gilleland, who. perfornied all the
business of the State agency at Washing
ton City for its chief—Frank Jordan—du
ring the latter's absence electioneering
for Geary throughout the whole of the,
last campaign, has been disniissed* from
his position. Because Jordan' was a rad
ical, who faithlessly neglected' the duties
of his office for more than half a Year to
work for his party, he has been rewarded
with the position of Secretary of the Com
monwealth by Geary, and the salary of
that position raised for him by the radical
majority of the Legislature. Because;
however, Col. Gilleland was a Conserv*.
rive; (or at least a pot over ardent radical
partisan,) who attended to both his own
duties and those neglected by' Jordan, be
has been dismissed—to make a place, no
doubt, for some radical pimp who will do
as Jordan did. Is this just to the faithful
public servant—is it just to the. tax payers
of the State, who have been defrauded of
three thousand dollars annually topai Jor
dan for rioting as chairman of the radical'
State Central Committee and neglecting
the duties of his appointment: l —M:6W. .
—A bookseller being 'liked for a copy
o f t h e constitution, replied, 4 $ r keep no
periodicals." Not a bad hit at the Radi
cals.
—Massachusetts has .three negroea in
her Legislature and three hundred and
thirty four in the State l'rison.
—The bakers of London are to have a
newspaper. devoted to their interests, to
be called the Staff of Life.
—Old harem are being fattened in Ps
ris, to prepare for the dentatid,oonsaquent
upon, the exhibition.
—At a printer'efeatival given aa New
Year's day, the following wait one of - tbs
toasts : " Women—Second only to tho
press in the publication of newe.
Our Indian Affith.s.