New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-12
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had besu before were then. and continued there'
after On the most confidential terms; and Washing
ton called Hamilton, over the heaaS oil huhurod
who had far greater claims on every score but thss
Of capscit, and itness, to Ill that position IN his
Cabinet whore he would have most power to adj
samoa an, g rnousrchical anstacraticar scheme to
,,h;oh No x.s devoted Either George Washing
a., tb., was downright idiot, or he stands be-
S,,s tina world fully implicatcd-with Mr.. Jefferson
n, conspicuons aocuser--n any efforts of Ham
lion 70 overthrow repubicanism."
One moro point and we close. The genius,
filth aud industry of Mr. Jefferson called the Re-
publican party nto being but it was not he who
taught it how to conquer. He was its philosopher;
Aaron BUR- was its tscticisn. We cannot say what
may have occurred aferward; but it Is clear that,
In al human probability, New-York could not have
been carried, and, of course Jefferson could not
have been elected, in 1900 but for the superhuman
exertions and tact of Aaron Burr. The quarres
of John Adams and Hamilton, the wrong headed
nsss Of the former and the unustifabe intrgues OF
the altor distracted the Federal party; but its in
sr;nsic strength was so great that only the match
ss skill the untiring assiduity Of Burr could have
Ssn overtime wn it. In due time it devolved on a
Federal House Of Representatives to choose be-
tween Jefferson and Burr President of the United
States, and the great of them were earnestly,
actively ardently for Burr choice of evils. Now
was the tune, If Hamilton had really desired and
plotted reactOnary change in our form of govern
f1ent, TO advance his scheme. Burr was thorough
" known to him az able ambitious, daring unscru-
pulous unprincipled-a Republican on calculation,
and the last man 70 surrender power while there
was chance to retain it. His election by the Fed
erasts would naturally ALLEVIATE from him the
great noss ofthe Republicans, leaving only his own
personal adherents to unite with the Federalfsts IN
sustaining his government. Popular connections
syere morally certain to follow his election, which
might readily have been made the pretext and
the occasion of radical changes Hamil-
Ton, az tho most prominent Federalist after
Adams. aud one Of the counselOrs of Burr's
elevation, might have chosen his own position in
The new order But nO--HaniltOn vehemently,
persistentiy, most effectively opposed the support
of Burr BY the Federalists, urging all manner of
sound reasons in favor Of the course no preferred,
and saying in the utmost confidence to his Federal
friend Bayard at is past all doubt that he (Burr)
"hss blamed me for not having improved the
"stuation 1 once was in TO change the Govern
"ment." He added also in the profoundest con-
6dence. that if Burr should be elected 81
4'thnk it almost certain that he will attempt aSur-
"patiow, and though believe he will fall the at.
"tempt will involve great mischief" And thus,
because he apprehended some Bonapartean at
tempt at usurpation ON the part of Burr, Alexan-
der Hamilton exerted his utmost influence to de-
feat his election to the Presidency and let Mr..
Jefferson be chosen in his stead. In view of these
facts, we submit that the iteration of Mr.. Jefer-
sons inculpation of Hamilton, by Mr.. Us adoring
biorapher, is an obstinate persistence in injustice
not merely but ingratitude. And when we con-
slider that the charge is based merely on words I'M
accompanied by act5-on scraps of letters and
yapue recoIections of the drift Of casual CONVEX
sstions-the injustice is doubiy manifest.