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| der consideration in committee OF the
whole in the house Of representatives.
and on March %. Mr. Stanley OF Ken
lucky got the fiooT and proceeded 10
reply 20 a very able speech by Mr.. Dal-
zell, some time earlier, in which the
accomplished statesman from Pennsyl-
vania undertook to contrast Alexander
Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. much
TO the disagreement of the latter, and
much to the credit OF the former.
MI Dalzen got HIS history of the
New England school-the Harvard set
Henry Adams, Henry Cabot Lodge.
I Theodore Roosevelt, and so on. not TO
forget William E Curtis and Edward
s Ellis. and IT made the sedate think.
CT from Piltsburg. ordinarily so wary
and so accurate. a very creduIous per
son We see the somewhat similar
effect when the brilliant mind OF Ger
trude AthertOa contemplates Hamilton
and Jefferson through the same his
t0ric specs.
Owsley SANKEY'S reply TO Dalzell
was crushing and conclusive. He
painted the two men. Hamilton and
Jefferson. precisely as they were. and
placed them precisely where authentic
his,~ will put them-the Virginian
the wisest Of political philosophers;
the West Indian the most brilliant OF
political adventurers. Many OF stan
leT's political friends tried TO dissuade
him from the encounter. They did not
know much about Hamilton and JEFF
fersOn. but they knew a deal Of John
Dslzell. whose conclusions they had
never embraced. but whose statements
OF facts they had never challenged.
Stanley did not dare TO enter the
lists without being armed cap-a-pie.
and he spent a 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
g1line 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 were and as they
will be estimated by the future Gibbon
or Hume.
Alexander Hamilton was born a
British subject, in the Insignificant
island Of Nevis, in the West Indies.
His father was Scotchman and his
mother a French woman. In his EARL
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 l with mind will OPEN"
AS 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 a bigger place in English an
nails 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, a more fortunate Massena.
Instead, Hamilton came to America |
and assumed the role of Hampden. He !
I
he levied so much as the principle it |
involved. It was a little bit of a tax, |
great piece of folly on the part of !
the ministry, though not oppressive;
but If allowed TO be a precedent. IL |
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 I
In the field he was as daring as he was |
able in the forum. That arch-fatterer
and matchless scoundrel, Talleyrand. |
declared that Hamilton was greater
than Napoleon or Fox, which is all
bosh; but Hamilton's eulogists are abb
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 stuff, not the brand described by
Walpole-fIamilton had none, and It
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. 1t is catching" in the
schoolroom as it is impaired from ur-
chin to urchin, and it is all over and
around the playground. Washington
and Henry, Adams and Putnam, Rut-