Book excerpt: Excerpt from William and Mary College Quarterly, 1914-1915, Vol. 23: Historical Magazine This is probably due to the unconscious influence of his Northern surroundings. Party principles to Dr. Cole seem to mean measures only, but to my mind the fundamental distinction between parties is their attitude to the States and to the Union. The Hamilton Federalists believed in a consolidated government. They went out of existence as alparty in 1816, and the Demo cratic Republican party held the field in solitary triumph. The National Republican party formed in 1828 out of two factions of the old Democratic Republican party (j. Q. Adams and Clay) avowed no relationship to the Federalists and professed to adhere to the doctrines of 1798 Clay, their great leader, when most a latitudinarian, professed to believe in the sovereignty of the. States, and afterwards in 1832 pronounced Jackson's proclama tion against South Carolina as ultra Federal black cockade. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.