Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1859 — Two Ends of Thirty Years. [ARTICLE]

Two Ends of Thirty Years.

j The Concord Democrat gives the vote for I Jackson and Adams in 1828, and the vote for Goodwill and Cate in 1859, in twenty-three ’owns of New Hampshire. The twentythree towns gave Jackson 3003 and Adams 1652; almost two to one for Gen. Jackson, at his first, election, and when New Hamp shire went against him. These same towns are now true to the Republican party, giving 3922 for Goodwin anil 3467 for Cute at the recent election, being nearly syu majority for the Republican ticket. The Democrat also gives the votes of 1828 and 1859 in nineteen “old federal” towns, which gave over 900 majority against Gen. Jackson in 1828, ami which now gives nearly 600 majority for Cate, and against the Republican ticket in 1859! “Does this,” asks the Democrat, “look ns though Jackson Republicanism and modern Democracy were the same! Does it not rather look as though modern Democracy were the lineal descendants of old Federalism! Does it not look as though the main body of the old Republican party, which supported the o'd. hero of the Hermitage, were still true to the Republican party!” There are -qther evidences even more satisfactory than this view of the “two ends of thirty years,” that the Democracy have no share of Jefferson’s principles-in them. Jefferson hated slavery. Democracy loves it, tjind labors to e stem! it. Jefferson opposed the! centralization of power in-,the Federal Government. The Democracy! hive gone so fur in centraliz’n r as to elect Senators for States by the Federal Government, and declare t hat ail State power and law must be annihilated before the authority of* the Federal Courts. Jeffb.-sd’n demanded that all his officers should be honest ami c ip ib'e. I’he Democracy have’ made theirs of inm generally dishonest and often ine.inable. Jeffer.-ou advocated an economical administration of the Government, 'i’he Democracy runs riot in extrav.ig nice, and wastes in corrupt, j fits core than live tnu as the wh >le cost of the Administration in Jefferson's day. In short there is not a f.-ature of Jefferson's view's, or of h’s political conduct, that the Democracy have not openly repudiated. At last they have repudiated his name ami his fame, and Republicans are celebrating his birfh-duy, ami eulogizing him as they have some right to do. The Democracy have got too lar away from him to venture on so broad a joke as calling themselves Jeffersonians any longer. They are the Calhoun Democracy now.