LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

ought to have done that. Well, they were good men, far above human
average, and they were right in at least one way. In those days it meant
getting the government quite a few hours off and AWAY from the Banks
of New York. But Lawdy! And John Adams was lackin’ in tact. Or
mebbe he was just strong in a confidence that the human mind can
LEARN from experience. At any rate, he lived to see little Johnnie, Mr.
John Quincy Adams, elected President, and he, old John said with great
foresight, if you git in you will stay just 4 years, like I did. They will
NOT reelect you.
Well, John Quincy was in some ways a communist. Wanted national
ownership of most of the national land. Wanted the proceeds to go to
education (includin’, gil drat it, astronomy). Wrote a treatise on weights
and measures INSTEAD of havin’ the sense of Cleopatra and occupyin’
his time with the question of MONEY. That was his error, that is one of
his errors. But no slouch, and could swim the Potomac until quite late in
his human career. I hear he could plow a straight furrow. I don’t mean
metaphorical, I mean with a plowshare.
Well, that is in some ways parenthesis. But it helps to understand how
we got here. How we got into this war. One hundred and more years
later.
However, to keep the main line: 1700, 1750, and the American
Revolution betrayed by Hamilton, as far as he could, restored by
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, upheld by the Adamses. And then came the
next fight. NOT stressed in the American school boy’s school books. The
WAR of Biddle and his God damn bank against the American people. A
war WON by the American people, duce Mr. Jackson, with Van Buren
assistin’, and that friendship is the second great friendship in our history.
John Adams and Jefferson. Jackson and Martin van Buren. And there
had been Jefferson and his circle, and the tradition of those men WAS
the American heritage.