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Show A VOICZ FROM. THE TOMB. Hon. Themis If. Jlrnlon, in l,in "Tiiirly Year's View," uttribul'B thf Cfltructinn of lho old federal p.irty in 0 1801 tj the stniggl'j it made in lie house of representatives to fier i Won IJ'irr ngaiiiHt Thomna J fT.T-u, fT.T-u, who w;m the choice ut the people fjr president. Aaron llnrr wjis the1 cartd.date for vice prrsid'int, but the I Moral ish underfydt to elect him ' prKsident an'l kept up lho struggle! for aiven days and nights, and until ! the thirty-sixth ballot, when Dr. I JelT'jrflon refflived llio votes of V n States and was ebcterj, "Gcner.d Hamilton, (hough not Ujmi in pubi c lifo, Uik ft de'jidfd part in thin cleo-i tion, rising above all personal and al! party considerations, and urging the federalists from the beginning to vote for Mr. Jefferson. Thus the demoemtic principle prevailed. The choice of the peoplo was elected by the house of representatives; and lho I struggle was fatal to those who had opposed that principle. The fed-1 fed-1 eral party was broken down, and at the ensuing congressional congres-sional elections, was left iu a small minority. Its candidate at the ensuing presidential election received re-ceived but fourteen votes out of 17G. Burr, in whose favor, and with whose connivance the strugglo had been made, was ruined fell under the ban of the republican party, dis appeared from public life, and was only seen afterwards in criminal enterprises, and ending his life in w snt and misery. A .d thus ended the first strugglo in it j house of rep rese natives betweeu the theory of the constitution and tha democratic principle with tri umph to the principle and ruin to its op posers.' ' The second presidential election iu thehousoof representatives was that of Mr. Adams iu General Jackson, John Quiucy Adams and Wm. H. Crawford received from the people yy, t ana 4i electoral votes respectively for president. Mr. Adams was elected by the house, though General Jackson was the choice of the people, having received the greatest number of voted. Says Mr. Benton in reference to this olec tion: The election of Mr. Adams was perfectly per-fectly c. institutional, and as such fully iu bin i Lied to by tbo psople; but it was Alio a violation of the demos kraetv principle; and that violation wa, signally rebuked. All the representatives who vnted against the will of their constituents, constitu-ents, lost their favor, atid di-appeured trora public lifj. Ttio representation in the h u-eof representative whs largi-ly etiangod at the lirst g-nernl election, and presented a lull opposition to the new president. Mr. A Uuis himself was injured in-jured by it, and at ttio ensuing presi Jen-lial Jen-lial election was beaU-n by Geiwral Jnckion more than iwo to ore 17t to xj. The demccratic theory was agnin vietr ovtr the theory of the consliiution, and great and giK-d wor-' the re-ulU that onued. It vindicated ;he demoj in their right and their power, and showed ihtt the pretix to lho con-U-Lution, " Wc, the people, do ordain and e.-tibliib," etc., may also be add'-d tj i s alninii-tratvn, -luwiup theni lo be a. ib.e to aununister as t- iua!ie thtt intru-uint. intru-uint. it showed the conservative power of our g 'Vern-i.ent 'Vern-i.ent t'j lie in the ptop!-1, mure than in iU con.'.iiuted au'.li'ritie, U howed thn.t they wi- eupible of vX.t ei;iiig lb-) fuQetioa of ell-g .vennut-Til. It acaurcd the supremacy oi the denv c-racy c-racy lor a lon tuns. Finally, Fi-nally, it was a cmli 'n to all public men sgairst future atto'iin'i to govtrn pr bi-Jential bi-Jential elections in ttio house of tiM'Tp-setilativci. tiM'Tp-setilativci. li-ii'r) 5ilii.it t iq the oii is n-w we' I etarjii-b-d, and pwl.tiisl ruin ar.d .;rio(iil h'jmi.ti'.ion nttecd tie vii'a'.iyn of the wi't ..f the frUte. Jio insn coul'J be fleeted now, or ei.deav.r t bo e.t.-vVl. lt.r the fcxp-neiice of 1SX) and l-'-l, who is not at ibe h..-1 1 of iho hl ni tbe choice of lho niuj'Jr.ty of the Ur.Ln. Mr. Benton did nit have to deal with the spectacle of a minority party in the nation attempting to count an electoral majority lur its candidate by force and fraud, which is the , spectacle the present generatiun i now witnesciug. In the caaea cittd the action ol Uiu piiUtd were in cun-formity cun-formity with the iaw and constitution; :n the present c.ise tiio republican ! party has overridden and di tied the .aws and the Constitution, at-lackiny at-lackiny the democratic principle '.hruugh tiie federal a-mcy at the polls in the stales wli'.re lis p.irti.i ini Icontrul lho machinery of government Were old Turn Benton aitve lo-dy we can imagine in what ii.dii.int terms he wuuld cnaracierizM thts con spiracy to Sltai ine icuer.u g ern-ment ern-ment and negative tiie vote ol tnt-vaat tnt-vaat majority ot trie ptople. A iimrt audacioja crime wjs never conceived con-ceived than this, and whether it shall succeed or (ail, it will involve all who are digged in it iu political ruin. The republican party will be striciteu with paralysis, and will go out ol existence ex-istence disgraced and despised. Hij-tory Hij-tory but repeats itself. Vol popuh vox Dei I |