Alexander Hamilton; Nevis-Weehawken
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Excerpt from Alexander Hamilton; Nevis-Weehawken: A Lecture on the Military Career of Alexander Hamilton With Elaborate Notes on the Important Events of His Life, and Full Particulars of the Hamilton-Burr Duel Commander, Ladies and Gentlemen: Every author prefixes his book with an apology, or a dedication, and I will begin my lecture with an explanation of the causes that led to its preparation and the motives that prompted it. The many generous and warm welcomes which I have received at the hands of Alexander Hamilton Post placed me under an obligation which I was desirous, in some way, of reciprocating, and I felt that I could do so In no more appropriate manner than by preparing and delivering a lecture, taking for my subject the man after whom the Post is named. The plan once conceived, I began my investigations, but soon ascertained how incompetent I was for the task assumed, and what an undertaking I had before me in preparing something worthy of your attention. On the very threshold of my labors I was met with serious difficulties: First, I was a Democrat, and knew that Hamilton was the founder of a political organization with which I was not in sympathy; second, I was a Southerner, imbued with the doctrine of State Rights, which I had been taught from boyhood was the most vital and essential principle of our government: Hamilton was the known advocate of a strong centralized national government. Furthermore, what I knew of Hamilton I had gleaned from the study of the life of Aaron Burr, whom I had regarded with all the reverence and veneration that the youthful mind bestows upon a brilliant, brave and chivalric person, such as he had been pictured to me. I had eagerly sought and read everything that in any way related to Aaron Burr, and remember once, while a student in Germany, searching the great libraries of Europe for a little book, the "Memoirs of Mrs. Coghlan, nee Moncrieffe," which was merely mentioned in a foot note in one of his biographies. There were traits in Burrs character which greatly pleased and impressed me. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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