Show THOMAS JEFFERSON THE PER personification OF STATE sovereignty second lecture delivered list last night b dr gordy at the brigham boung academy there was a tolerably fair sized audience on ta occasion of dr girdya Goi Gir dyt dyo lecture last night bight at the B Y academy the tha subject of this lecture was thomas jefferson Jeff and the doctor was completely at home in disc mooing the life and labors of that great apostle of democracy Deta the subject of his lecture the dec tor said aid cared not so 10 much fr far tk united states A he did for massachusetts he had been as an ardent defender 1 if I the doctrine of of secession lie he wat wa oot go 80 much interested in the nation aati oua I 1 victories as aa he was over the in laJ epand depend ance and sovereignty of his own owe state to s lie he grew in years however thomas it t fferson became a more isore fervent lover i cuu country every one of alexandar Alexand tr Lue asares had lived an am and though they were not aff eltive tive in the iu iii aich h hi had bad lived lii 1 they wore wera adopted t day am were the hasis basis of our oar euver ameni doctrines off inched implied ROB oviers era und and interpretation at 0 the constitution have eer eber sin yielded an eldur enduring ing in influence he was one of the grandest and noblest of americas great men an aa citizens citi zeng we are governed today by the constitutional system rather than han by the written constitution who today exerts the greater in nalence claence in the affairs of our nation Is it the president of the united states 9 1 no it is in the speaker of the house of ef representatives the present method of electing the president Pren dent is not in accord with the written constitution our system has settled the a protective tariff while the constitution left it entirely unsettled our constina tion has settled various questions while I 1 the tha unwritten constitution left them unsettled amendments almost uner I 1 calved are being made in the constitution the result of our constitutional system the question therefore of interpreting the ana is a most moat important one ane Cle chances anges are being made by the construction or interpretation almost daily they are happening bap penin while you yoa sleep the constitution is can sta undergoing amendments the do trine of implied powers power su as advocated by hamilton had given strength and durability dura bilKy to powers posE possessed essed by the central ahila our copeti system is powerful it increases at the same time the powers of the people hamilton wanted an aa republic tad jefferon fleron jeffer Je on a democratic republic from the life of hamilton Hit milton we learn that we should be stow blow in concluding that a great man is beaten he ti tiled isdio to place the reins of government in the hinds hands of the rich and in that he failed jefferson jeffersn ivas as an ardent lover of liberty a worshipper wor shipper of liberty in ia ilet if ever man lived who trusted implicitly in we toe peo plit that saw man wae thomas jefferson Jeffer pon ile he believed the golden age was M in the future and had a hatred of tyrants tv ranta it was claimed it bv the republicans that they were the ad author of thi doctrine of freeing the slaves it was not cothey so they stole jeffersons thunder when abraham lin 4 coln coin wrote the emancipation proclamation he did co act with the pen of thomas jefferson both hamilton and jefferson had agreed to dislike the constina I 1 ion IOD one thought it did sot not give the general ce government sufficient power while the other thought it gave too much power to the general government lt ll had bad been bea claimed that jefferson Jeffe raon was because iu in 1789 being a federalist he believed in antho th a Cons titus titu tion in 1793 he be wits was an anti federalist Federa Fader lift aliet contending against hamil tons construction of the constitution jeferson Jeff raon had witnessed the great f fi nh bh revo lutica he saw MW the zing king and anci llie ibe people aRo aroutune agaune utne the po powers were of kevern ment all was done ta la the nane name of liber liberty tv it was waa not the moans of the dy dying lug i nobles n and aristo cr era 2 a that pierced J aff i if esons heart it was tho the groans groin bof the poor and hungry french pes kessans pessans pei sans ins the man who first krsta the word nullification across the page of american history was not john thomas thomaa jefferson Jeff mon lit 1 ilter ter believed that the ip alien alian and Fadi sedition tion laws dang increase crease sl J the of tete executive hamilton find and jefferson hated each oh or fit and yet what whai have we wa hers here tan agat of Jda miltan and jefferson in our government we hays haye almost as strong a central government as B ever hamilton nad wished to lo see and yet vet we bavo ft a government of an and by the fhe people time the ideas of both arm ara in in our gi and and glorious system of government if th chev ey could come coma back they would find fiad a government based and nd conducted upon the best ideen f both the leclare was listened to with arant attention and evide evidently ati y much appreciated by the he audience |