Celebration of Jefferson´s Birthday in Washington, Wednesday, April 13, 1859 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Celebration of Jefferson´s Birthday in Washington, Wednesday, April 13, 1859 The friends of Freedom in Washington, under the auspices of the Republican Association, celebrated the birthday of Thomas Jefferson, on Wednesday, the 10th instant, with great spirit and enthusiasm. In the afternoon, one hundred guns were fired, partly in honor of the day, and also in celebration of the recent Republican triumphs in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Missouri, Michigan, and other States. In the evening, a large audience assembled at Odd Fellows Hall, to hear an oration in memory of the life, character, and principles of Mr. Jefferson. The occasion was enlivened by the presence of the Marine Band, which played national and patriotic airs at the intervals in the proceedings. Francis P. Blair, sen., Esq., presided, and introduced the proceedings by the following address, which briefly and perspicuously sets forth the nature and objects of the Republican organization. Gentlemen: There never was a more propitious moment than the present to revive the recollection of the principles and Administration of Jefferson. When a spurious currency has filled the channels of circulation, it can only be expelled by putting it in competition with the real standard of value. We have a party in power who affect to represent Mr. Jefferson, and carry out his doctrines in the conduct of the Government. They take the name of National Democrats. The Republican party have brought this "counterfeit presentment" of the true faith which Mr. Jefferson inculcated to the test in the measures they have submitted to the country, to restore the original principles of the Government I propose, as a preface to the proceedings of this meeting, to present a naked schedule of the acts of the National Democracy, in contrast with the measures urged by their Republican adversaries, and compare both with Jefferson´s standard. The Democrats now deride the name of Republicans. This, we learn from Jefferson´s Auas, was, at the threshold of Washington´s Administration, a name which excited some repugnance in Washington, when used in some document prepared for him by Jefferson. Republic, Washington held to be the true title of our national institution. But it was doubtless obnoxious to that section of Washington´s Cabinet which held the French Republic in odium, and employed the disagreeable association to prejudice him against its designation, as reccommended by Jefferson. Washington adopted, finally, the name preferred by Jefferson, in his own official communications to Congress. The opponents of the present Administration would restore the glory of the term which Jefferson suggested, and which Washington adopted, but which the oligarchs of that time and of this disavow and endeavor to bring into contempt. 2. Jefferson held that "Governments are republican only in proportion, as they embody the will of the people, and execute it." This is the true definition of popular sovereignty under our form of Government. It has been the constant aim of the National Democracy to stifle the principle, while professing to adopt it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such his
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