The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-06-05

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Some three OF -four weeks ego the
agricultural appropriation bin was IN
der consideration IN committee OF the
whole IN the house OF representatives.
and on March S6 Mr.. Stanley Of Ken
lucky got the door and proceeded TO
reply 10 very able speech by Mr.. Dali
zell. some time earlier. IN which the
accomplished statesmen IRON Pennsyi.
wanna undertook 10 contrast Alexander
Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. much
70 the disparagemont Of The batter. and
much 10 ne credit of Che former.
Mr.. Dalzeii got his history Of the
New England schooNthe Harvard BET
Henry Adams. Henry Cabot Lodge,
Theodore Roosevelt and 50 on, not 10
forget William e Curtis and Edward
8. Ella. and n made The sedAte think
er from Pittsburg. ordinarily 30 wary
and % accurate. Q very credulous per
son We see The somewhat similar
effect when the brilliant mind Of Ger
trude Anterior contemplates Hamilton
and Jefferson through the same his
toric specs.
0wsley SANKEY'S reply 10 DalDell
was crushing and conclusive. He
painted the two men, Hamilton and
Jefferson. precisely as they were. and
placed them precisely where authentic
history viii put them-the Vrginian
the wisest Of political philosophers;
the West Indian the most brilliant of
political adventures. Many Of Stan
1ey's political friends tried to dissuade
him from the encounter. They did not
know much about Hamilton and JEFF
ferson, but they kpeY a deal Of John
Dalzell, whose conclusions they had
never embraced, but whose statements
Of facts they had never challenged
Z Stanley did not dare to enter the
lists without being armed capa-pie,
and he spent q week Of almost cease
less investigation night and day. He
searched fifty volumes and drew from
manuscripts IN the national library
and the state department When he
began the Democrats were apprehen-
sive and the Republicans confident. A
few minutes the Democrats were san
guine and the Republicans confused.
Both were astonished. Never before
In more than 100 years Of history.
making had the American congress
sene the two great fathers Of Ameri-
can politics as they we're and as they
viii be estimated by the future Gibbon
or Hume.
Alexander Hamilton was born
British subject, in the insignificant
island OF Nevis, in the West Indies.
His father was a Scotchman and his
mother French woman. In his earli-
est youth he gave earnest Of the
splendid genius of which nature had
endowed him. Ere he was twenty he
was the first political controversialist
In the colony Of New York, whether
with tongue or pen. His motto might
have been:
why, then. the worlds mine oyster,
Which ! with mind will open"
AS q political writer he was greater
than Paine and little inferior to
Burke. AS an orator he was, perhaps,
second to Henry only Of the Revolu-
tionary generation. Had he gone to
London he would have been capable
Of filling bigger place IN English an.
mails than the younger Pitt Had he
gone TO France and escaped the Terror
he might have been second to Napole-
on Bonaparte alone, an honest Talley.
rand, more fortunate Massena.
Instead, Hamilton came to America
and assumed the role Of Hampden. He
opposed Lord North, not for the tax
be levied so much as the principle it
Involved. It was little bit of tax,
great piece of folly ON the part of
the ministry, though not oppressive;
but If allowed to be precedent, 1t
was in the power of the crown to
make serfs Of the colonists. Hamilton
entered the army and became the. sec.
rotary Of the commander-in-chief, and
In the field he was as daring as he was
able IN the forum That arch.hatterer
and matchless scoundrel, Talleyrand,
declared that Hamilton was greater
than Napoleon or Fox, which is all
bcsh; but Hamilton's eulogists are alb.
surd enough TO take what the unscru.
pulous French miscreant said for his
real opinion. Well might the shade
Of Hamilton pray to be delivered from
American history as she is writ.
Hamilton is actually held up as the
father OF the constitution, when the
one thing for which he had more con.
tempt than for that instrument was
the Articles OF Confederation which II
supplanted. AS for patriotism-the
real stun, not the brand described by
Walpole-Hamilton had none, and II
was impossible for him to have any
having expatriated himself at the age
Of sixteen years. The patriotism that
springs from the heart and fills the
soul is not plant that can be carried
from cline to cline. The patriot is
made OF the boy that plays around the
spring, gambols in the orchard. re
clines in the shade of trees in happy
boyhood. It is Catching in the
schoolroom as II is impaired from ur
chin to urchin. and 1t is all over and
around the playground Washington