Man who felt no need to placate Thomas Jefferson or James Madison had to grovel before the raffish James Reynolds, whom he later described bitterly as an obscure, unimportant, and profligate man.
On March 4, 1793, George Washington was sworn in for his second term as president
Plebiscite on the American treaty and resorted to strong-arm
Not only had Burr’s plan failed to provide pure water but it had thwarted other sound plans afoot, including those for a municipal water company.
Frederick Douglass paired Grant with Lincoln as the two people who had done most to secure African American advances:
He immediately had Rawlins summon stretcher bearers, but was dismayed when they removed the Union officer and overlooked the Confederate private. Take this Confederate, too, he said. Take them both to...
Nothing alarmed the white South more than black power at the polls, which was why most terror was directed there.
Politics. A prominent antifederalist had already warned him that rather than to adopt the Constitution, I would risk a government of Jew, Turk or infidel.83
Along with
Even amid a state of open warfare, these law-abiding men felt obligated to issue a formal document, giving a dispassionate list of their reasons for secession.
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Starters, it would be more efficient, since there would be one overarching scheme for settling debt instead of many small, competing schemes.
Perseverance in almost any plan is better than fickleness and fluctuation. (Alexander Hamilton, July 1792)
To arm and exasperate the negroes in the South.75 Some Washington observers floated scenarios of a constitutional showdown in which Johnson would deploy Grant and the military to silence Congress. Sud...
In the first essay, Hamilton dealt with the objection that only Congress could issue a neutrality proclamation, since it alone had the power to declare war. Hamilton pointed out that if the legislatur...
The further one digs into the Phocion essays, the more apparent it becomes that Hamilton was engaging in devious manipulation of the southern vote. He was trying to turn southern slaveholders against...
Of the nine American presidents who owned slaves—a list that includes his fellow Virginians Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe—only Washington set free all of his slaves.
Robert Troup said that Hamilton rejected fees if they were larger than he thought warranted and generally favored arbitration or amicable settlements in lieu of lawsuits.
Taciturnity.
Promote—the federal assumption of state debt and the selection of New York as the capital—assumption was incomparably more important to him. It was the most effective and irrevocable way to yoke the s...
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