The New Negro: His Political, Civil, And Mental Status ; And Related Essays
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Hamil- ton's time was all spent in planning and building; the chief activity of Jefferson was in opposing what Hamilton had planned and tearing down 112 THE NEW NEGRO what Hamilton was trying to build. They re- spectively represent the positive and negative forces of early American history. It Is significant that Hamilton's followers assumed the name of "Federalists," that is, constructive unionists, and Jefferson's party became the "anti-Federalists," that is, destructive disunionists. The suc...cessor to the Hamiltonian party is the present Republican party; and the Jeffersonian party survives in the present Democratic party. It makes us smile when we hear a "stumping" politician say, "I am a Jeffersonian Democrat," or that he beheves In "the fundamental principles laid down by Thomas Jefferson." Do you know what these "funda- mental principles" are? Stripped of all their cunning indirection and vituperation, and reduced to their lowest and simplest terms, they were simply this: "Down with Hamilton and the ac- cursed Federalists!" The French fever in Ameri- can politics rendered the populace violently hos- tile to anything that smacked of aristocracy or monarchy; Jefferson was cunning enough to take advantage of this passion and use it for all it was worth against Hamilton's centralization poli- cies.
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