IN APRIL 1860, Ulysses S. Grant, cloaked in his old blue army cape, arrived in Galena aboard the Mississippi steamer Itasca. Clasping in each hand chairs that had served the family as deck seats, Gran...
If Jefferson enunciated the more ample view of political democracy, Hamilton possessed the finer sense of economic opportunity. He was the messenger from a future that we now inhabit. We have left beh...
If Jefferson provided the essential poetry of American political discourse, Hamilton established the prose of American statecraft.
If Rutgers v. Waddington made Hamilton a controversial figure in city politics in 1784, the founding of the Bank of New York cast him in a more conciliatory role. The creation of New York’s first bank...
If Washington was the father of the country and Madison the father of the Constitution, then Alexander Hamilton was surely the father of the American government.
If forced to choose, Hamilton preferred a man with wrong principles to one devoid of any. There is no circumstance which has occurred in the course of our political affairs that has given me so much p...
If the party elected Burr, it would be exposed to the disgrace of a defeat in an attempt to elevate to the first place in the government one of the worst men in the community.14 Hamilton had never spo...
If those who ‘gain all they can’ and ‘save all they can,’ will likewise ‘give all they can,’ then the more they will grow in grace.
In February 1866, he testified before Congress to oppose suffrage for former slaves: My own opinion is that, at this time, they cannot vote intelligently, and that giving them the right of suffrage wo...
In January 1803, a grand jury in Columbia County, New York, indicted Harry Croswell for seditious libel against President Jefferson.
In May, when a Senate committee took up the explosive issue of titles, Adams suggested that Washington be addressed as His Highness, the President of the United States of America and Protector of thei...
In Venice, Grant let slip a remark that would provide fodder for many satirists: he told a young woman what a fine city it would be if only the canals were drained. Henry Adams adduced this as damning...
In a little more than two years, they had suffered their father’s disappearance and their mother’s death, reducing them to orphans and throwing them upon the mercy of friends, family, and community.
In a moment of acute anxiety a year earlier, John Adams had wondered what would happen if the multitude, the vulgar, the herd, the rabble maintained such open defiance of authority. 13
In a question of veracity between U.S. Grant and Andrew Johnson, between a soldier whose honor is as untarnished as the sun, and a President who has betrayed every friend, and broken every promise, th...
In a significant decision, he decided that customs revenues could be paid not just in gold and silver but with notes from the Bank of New York and the Bank of North America, an innovation that began t...
In general, however, their two voices blended admirably together.
In his final months, Grant showed exceptional kindness to Terrell, furnishing him with a glowing recommendation letter for use after his death so he could find employment as a War Department messenger...
In his response to Livingston, Hamilton made clear that some family members thought he was excessively preoccupied by the opposite sex. I exercise [my pen] at the [risk] of being anathematized by grav...
In his superb account of Senate impeachment powers in number 65, Hamilton visualized, with exceptional prescience, the problems that would occur when passions inflamed the country
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