Confederate forces were being whittled down and could not be replaced by the South’s smaller population.
By the time of A Full Vindication, Hamilton had clearly assumed the coloring of his environment.
By the end of Grant’s second term, white Democrats, through the redeemer movement, had reclaimed control of every southern state, winning in peacetime much of the power lost in combat. They promulgate...
By 1872, under Grant’s leadership, the Ku Klux Klan had been smashed in the South. (Its later twentieth-century incarnation had no connection to the earlier group other than a common style and ideolog...
Burr is said to have remarked, Had I read Sterne more and Voltaire less, I should have known the world was wide enough for Hamilton and me.61
Both Hamilton and Jefferson believed in democracy, but Hamilton tended to be more suspicious of the governed and Jefferson of the governors.
As a team, they were unbeatable and far more than the sum of their parts.
After reading through George Washington’s papers, Marshall pronounced Hamilton the greatest man (or one of the greatest men) that had ever appeared in the United States.31 Marshall considered Hamilton...
After all, the devil’s work was now sprinkled with holy water.
After Seabury rebutted A Full Vindication, Hamilton struck back with The Farmer Refuted, an eighty-page tour de force that Rivington brought out on February 23, 1775.
A lifelong Methodist, he had always viewed religious excess with a certain irony, having once told a clutch of ministers that America boasted three parties: Democrats, Republicans, and Methodists.
1690, the first capital, Jamestown, was swallowed whole by the sea during an
Say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to mankind, ‘Had this day been wanting, the world had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attainin...
Love of fame, the ruling passion of the noblest minds, which would prompt a man to plan and undertake extensive and arduous enterprises for the public benefit. 54 Ambition was reckless if inspired by...
In April, the president-elect had stopped at Morris’s opulent residence. The treasury, Morris, will of course be your berth, Washington confided. After your invaluable services as financier of the Rev...
If Clinton was taken prisoner it would be our misfortune, since the British government could not find another commander so incompetent to send in his place.
Have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions and not upon our circumstances.
Factions can become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government.
Everything that Hamilton planned to create to transform America into a powerful, modern nation-state—a central bank, a funded debt, a mint, a customs service, manufacturing subsidies, and so on—was to...
Cannot doubt, from the evidence that I possess[,] that the National Gazette was instituted by him [Jefferson] for political purposes and that one leading object of it has been to render me and all the...