Richland Planning and Stuff

To the honorable Frederick Muhlenberg, Speaker of the House of Representatives for the First Congress:



I hope this correspondence finds you well, and I must start by saying that of all the men called to serve the birth of this Republic that you have among the most difficult jobs, serving as the chief presiding officer of a chamber of varied viewpoints as we debate and legislate on the issues most important to these united States. It is my hope that your time in office is well-remembered as we have moved forward on important questions that will decide the course of this country for years to come.

As a fellow supporter of this Administration, I hope to write to you on another important question that will no doubt set a precedent for the future; my hope is that such precedent is a positive one. While the Constitution does ensure that it is the entire House of Representatives that chooses the Speaker of the House, the decision to assign duties to selected deputies lies with the Speaker alone. While I have no disagreement with the quality of work that has come from the current Deputy, the honorable Representative from New Hampshire, recent events have give me concern with loyalties and conflicts of interest.

You have heard, as have many here in the capital, of a new movement and a new political organization founded by your own Deputy entitled the "New Democracy Party." While the goals of this organization align with those of the Administration that you and I so strongly support, I believe the question needs to be asked whether this new organization is about ideals central to the Republic or if it is instead a cult of personality given the bombastic nature in which this new organization has been created and promoted. Of course this is merely personal speculation.

The more concerning aspect is what this can do for our august House. This country was founded on many principles, but one of them being the representatives of the people and the idea that while the majority rules, the minority has its rights protected. Until the upcoming elections and the seating of a new Congress, it is the group which could be called the Federalists, of which our colleague and your Deputy was so recently a part, that has won the right as a governing party in the eyes of the people of this Republic, while the group known as the New Democracy has not stood for election even once. To keep a member of this new party in such a high-ranking position suggests that rather than being responsive to the needs and the desires of the people for a strong central government that can defend the Republic, we're responsive to the attraction of a particular personality. I respect whichever decision you make as it rests with you, but I would suggest humbly that, to keep to the principle that we are Representatives of the people and not their masters, that you consider immediately finding a new Deputy to assist you in presiding over the First Congress. 


It is with great respect that I write. Sincerely yours, I am



/s/

Andrew Beaumont

Congressman for South Carolina's 1st Congressional District

The National Democrats seek the subversion of the American Ideal

Ethan Richland, Representative of South Carolina's First District


It was Thomas Jefferson who, in his hard work to found our great Republic, once said "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." The honorable Mr. Jefferson, like the other founders of these united States, knew more than anyone the importance on building a nation- perhaps the first of its kind- that was build on laws and not on the rule of the mob or the rule of popularity. 

Yet, as the tyrant King George claimed the idea of "divine right" and "will of the people" for his actions as the King of England and for the actions that directly lead to the birth of our Republic, so too is the idea of rule of the mob and rule of popularity showing up on our shores in the form of the so-called "National Democracy Party." Their primary reason of existence, so they claimed in letters to other members of the government, is to "give voice" to the people by expanding the right to vote in these united States. It is any male, they say, that should be given an equal say in government affairs. And it is their name- National Democracy- that shows they clearly want to give the common man ALL say. Recently in Congress I was witness to a debate wherein one Representative suggested that a national budget- along with every other law- should be put to the people and to the mob for a decision. Imagine what that means for Massachusetts when the "people" of the Carolinas have a say on tariffs and you have, reader, a picture of the chaos brought to you by the National Democrats and their brain-brothers throughout the country.

But wait, says our dear reader who, by virtue of reading this paper, is educated in the ways of governance. The National Democrats were formerly Federalists. Believers in the Federalist ideals, not in mob rule. Supporters of this Administration of President Washington and Vice-President Adams. This is, if the National Democrats are to be believed, true. Their dissatisfaction comes from, so it is claimed, the failure of the National Bank.

No member of the new National Democrats voted for the legislation when the House of Representatives considered it. While there may be a failure here, it is not limited to one party. Every member of this new party, the Party of Mob Rule, had a responsibility that they abandoned, like Benedict Arnold was prepared to abandon the responsibility of defending an independent Republic. Like Samuel Jay, associate of Arnold that conspired to assassinate the President, they sought to take advantage of their own failures to seem as though they are in the right. It would not surprise this author nor educated readers that the National Democrats are certainly welcoming Arnold and Jay into their bosoms. And like Samuel Jay and Benedict Arnold, this Party of Mob Rule and of Assassins of the Republic seek to build their own nation, ignoring what the great founders established and the Republic that we were given.

The Party of Mob Rule and of Assassins of the Republic wants to claim that they are the the true leaders of this Republic. They are build around a cult of personality, not around law. They are build around the rule of the masses that can oppress minority populations- the land-owners, the slave-owners, and the educated in north and south that have made this country successful. 

In the words of Vice-President John Adams, "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." It is clear with their dangerous ideas, with their dangerous friends, and with their dangerous existence, that all citizens of these united States would be better served with a suicide of the National Democrats that came sooner, rather than later.