The Portland daily press., 1894-09-07
A CHAR MING LECTURE.
Was the Address of Miss lJane Meade Yes
terday ON Alexander Hamilton.


. Seldom has lecturer been greeted by
SO large, enthusiastic and representati We
a Portland audience as greeted Miss Jane
Meade .Weleh OF Buffalo, N. T., yesterday
Afternoon, at A o'clock, in the Second
Advent church. when by invitation OF
the Portland Chapter of the Daughters
Of the American Revolution, Mrs. John
E. Palmer, Regent, she spoke on Alexan-
der Hamilton. The audience fillaa the
church, which, was brilliant with au-
tumn flowers, golden rod, ferns and
sumaeh, screened the pulpit, and roses
and sweet peas were in the foreground.
The lecturer, who was gracefully intro
duced by Miss Mary McCobb, spoke for
over an hour on Alexander Hamilton,
timely subject in view of his great in
fuence upon the early tariff legislation
of our country, and his attitude upon
thesquestion of bi-metallism. No man
uscrpt was used, and Hamilton seemed
a living picture as scene after scene form
boyhood to manhood was presented. His
marvellous precocity, his career in the
Revolution, were presented as preface
to his influence in securing the ad option
of the constitution through The Federal
ist, and as an active debater in the New
York convention. But it was with his
appointment as Secretary of the Treas
ury that Hamilton became an essential
element in American history, and his
policy, as expressed in his five great
fLa ovf %t,o II
credit, the mint, excise, the national
bank, and the manufactures \ was min
utely summarized. The paper on the
manufactures being the source. even,
today, Of all the best arguments for pro-
lection.
Hamilton's petty quarrels with Jeffer-
son and John Adams, whom he passion
ately attacked in the columns of Fenno's
Gazette. were not excused, nor was the
overbearing manner which he assumed
at times towards the House and Senate.
The lecture was concluded with a
graphic description of the duel with Burr
and the lingering death agony. Those
who heard the lecture felt personally
acquainted with Hamilton, as having ap-
peareds before them a living figure out of
the pages of history. Among those pres
ent were:a Mrs. L. D. NJ. Sweat, regent for
Maine of the Mount Vernon Associa-
tion; Mrs. W. F. Milliken, Mrs. S. H.
Weeks, Miss Weeks, Mrs. Elias Thomas,
Miss Thomas, Henry Deering, Mrs. H..
S. Osgood, the Misses Knight,S Miss
Clifford, Miss Hattie Fassett, Fritz II i.
Jordan, Mrs. C. P. Mattocks, Miss Annie
Merrill, Mrs. Clarence Hale, Miss Var
mum, John H.Knight, ED. Noyes, Mrs.
G. R. Milliken, Miss Milliken, Mr.. and
Mrs. J NJ. 6 ould, Miss Charlotte Thorn
as, Miss Lewis, Miss Dana, DIR. Blanch-
ard. john A. Emery, Mr.. and Mrs. CD.
Merrill, Mrs. DR.. Spaulding, Mrs. F. f..
Boothby, Mrs. Mcdowell, Miss Mellow
ell, Mrs. Thomas Shaw, Miss Shaw, Mr..
J. A. Monks, the artist, Mrs. Monks, Mr..
and Mrs. J. /. E. Palmer Mrs. Deane Stills.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Gould, Mrs. A. A.
Strout, Mrs. George Burnham, Miss Sim
onton, mum Der of guests from the OF
tawa House, Mrs. Edmund Phinnev.
Mrs. f. G. Hight, Mr.. and Mrs. Peck ham
of Milwaukee, Mrs. Welch of Buffalo.
Mrs. and Miss Bispham of Washington.
DC, Mrs. Levy and Miss Levy of Eliz-
zabeth, Nd, and many others.