Show KISE OF POLITICAL continued editor one would imagine to har those poo plo talk who dub themselves jefferson ion democrats that jefferson waa a man who would not do one thin unless he found the authority given in the constitution in express terms while jenerson Jene raon was president he performed acts which in this day should a republican president perform a ana thing would arouse a storm of dajao cratic indignation that would be heard all over the united states where it may he naked is the express authority in the constitution ofine united states for the purchase by tha general government of foreign territory Y yet jefferson in 1803 ant a abort time after he as summed the presidential auice of his own accord made a treaty with napo leon purchasing the territory of louisiana for the mum of fifteen million dollars but jeterson aha he became pread dent relaxed hm old view about the power of the general government lie believed that circum may arise when a chisht law b followed over and above written law when writing concerning hie of lourana proved by hia strict construction of the constitution that ibro waa no warrant in that instrument for the purchase h had made he was of the opinion that if eny bad results should follow a broad construction there was a remedy in the good sense of the people to use hia own worda confiding that the good genge of the country will correct the evil of construe tion when it ceball produce ill effects I 1 have laid that jefferson believed there were circumstances which would justify following a higher law over the written law Lotus eee jn a letter written at monticello ampt to J K galtin jefferson bays the question tion you propose whether circumstances do not sometimes occur which make it a duty in officers of high trust to assume beyond the law is easy of ia principle but bome timo in practice A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless doubt lesi one of the high duties of c good citizen but it ia not the highest the laws of necessity of self breser of cur country when in danger are of higher obligations to locae our country by a scrupulous adi ad i ferenc to written law would be to loose the law with life liberty property and all who are enjoying them with ue thu absurdly sacrificing th end to the means was there ever a federalist who asserted asier ted a doc any stronger eyser ft whig who went beyond eyer a republican claimed anything more for a baroug government ern ment and creater Kr eater power in the guv eminent how is this Jener soman democrats I 1 have said that one of jeffersons acts was especial lly obnoxious it was the authorship of the kentucky resolutions of 98 these resolutions set forth the doctrine of rights and assorted I 1 the right of a stats to nullify laws of the united states whenever tha slate of its self should judge such laws atre in violation of the compact constitution between the states it is nut to bo sup poked that when he penned these resolutions lut ions jefferson foresaw the disastrous results that followed that he for one moment anticipated that men claiming to be following in his andr the doctrine asserted in these resolutions would threaten a of the union and afterwards wage a ser war in their efforts to maintain very doctrine but ae was said by one writer referring to this matter the fact that the seeds thus sawn by the hands of jefferson on the coil of luit and kentucky were dragons teeth destined in after years to spring up an of men battling for the subversion of that constitution and the destruction of that union which be to and aich he aa BO largely in founding it muy not be out of place here to il sert ao of the kentucky rr that bear directly on hid subject rhe first is aa follow s that the eay trat states composing the united of america are aut united on the principle of unlimited submission otheir beneral government but that by a compact under the and title of a Co tin for the united aud of amendments thereto they constituted a beneral government a purposes delegated go vein ertain lie finite powers reaming ream ing cacti state to itself the residuary masa of to their own self government and that tue gentral government assumed powers its acts are void aud of no foice thit to ans compart yach state faba blate and as an magr pany its co staten forming as to the other party that the government created by ahia compact wan not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent af the powers to itself since that would hive made ita discretion and not the measure of its powers but that as in all other cases of compact among powars having no common judge each party has an equal richt to judge for itself BB well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress the resolutions after referring to the alien and kedit on laws and some other matters as being in point invites the othir tittles to join aa these principle and in resisting the exercise of the power by the general gov that the returning to their natural rights in cases not made Feder alwill concur in doclar dt clar ing these acts void and of no force and uli each take measures ot its own in providing that neither these any others of tha general government not plainly and intentionally authorized by the Constitution shall be exercised will in their respective inasmuch as W H K has started outto enlighten us on matter apolitical I 1 would nek liviu to enlighten us un thees resolutions lue he believe they contain sound doctrine atie doctrine in them does lie believe rings out with pure patriotism with these principles obtaining does ho believe the union would rest upon a sure foundation does the democracy of tho present dav and the jeffersonian democracy mo cracy them these are prominent questions for today in utah we are lut just now trying to csc where we plant our acel to place where as good ci lizena wi ought to be all should be definitely expounded for my part I 1 have noa seen it stated what the position of the utah democracy is OB thin a question too upon which the two ot today are apart in other portions at the country 1 7 A PHOTO sept |