The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-31
Alexander Hamilton
(Contaaued from Prse a-)

tCnuf3aue0 from E*NE &.J
 sprunE up in theatre. Burr turned upon Hamilton, and in a correspond ence which exhibits Burr as Hamilton's superior, duel was agreed on and ar- ranged. They both made preparations against death, and Burr, besides. prac- ticed shooting at a mark in his garden. They met in the early morning of q July day ia 1894, under the bluffs of Weehawlsn, on the Jersey shore of the Hudson. Hamilton fell at the first Are. Ae fingered some days in great agony. dying in his 4sth year. Burr became q fugitive.
 I stood some years ago on the gently rising banks of a little stream pour ing noiseisssly through a primeval forest of pine in Washington county. Burr. the homicide and the alleged conspirstor against his country. was halted by his captors. Was 1t then that I reelected. or is it now that I reflect; how little fate had in store for either of these men if by a chance of fortune they had. instead of trying to pistol one another on that July day. shaken hands and parted as friends: Both alike on that day were political derelicts. Four years before the American people had turned away from the dark and angry plotters who would have loved to order the fabric of government by the gieaming light of shillings and bayonets and chocs- fng with wise precedence leader who trusted them engaged themselves shout the quieter welfare of their country. Hamilton and Burr sank into hated oblivion. As late as 1s26 Story compiimented Chancellor Kent on speaking up for Hamilton. From that hated oblivion. Burr has in par tfai way emerged. Hamilton has all but completely emerged. This emer- gence. undoubted and indubttable as 1t Is, 1t now becomes my duty to ex- plain, if can.
 In looking at him, fixing q neye up- on him. declining diversion by uncrit- teal euloKy and thoughtless praise, we have found him united by his own adrnissi9n for a career in this coun- try; we have denied him, going by the record, any conspicuous role in the formation or in the adoption of the constitution, and in the period of his greatest activity, If we had not known 1t otherwise we know by his own admission how indispensable to him Washington. was: and we have seen his last years embittered, and himself at the end despised by the ruling ma- 1orfty and deserted by his allies. Yet Alexander Hamilton bulks large in the history and literature of the Uni- ted States.
 I wish 1t had been possible to say that later researches, more recently revealed secrets, additions to our stores of archives. exhibit new man. I should have been glad to quote a noble sentiment from the tongue or pen of Hamilton, but I know of none. should have been glad to offer proof that he was free from vanity, from envy, from seif-seelking ambition; that he loved something other than power, somebody other than Alexander Ham flton, but the resord, old or new. dis- closes no such proof. I have given you no new facts. and just to the ex- tent they are unfamiliar is due to an indispositinn. to look for them. They have ali been in print for many years. |. Stiis you will naturally ask. whence his fane7 why so renowned?
 The ffrstsappeal that is made for him fs what is often considered his prem atura and tragic death. put no stress on this. but tragic death makes undeniab1y an appeal of its own to humanity. Shadows pursuing shad- ows. a Blowout of the infinite makes us to draw together as if we ourselves had been struck at. We have all felt this and rarely I venture to think with just reason. When Alexander died, q famous instance, his eonquests