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Alexander Hamilton 
 
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 E are always on the look-out for 
 good things. Sometimes we find 
 'em ; at other times they are non 
 est, nix, and null. Most of us get what 
 we go after, though, and we all get what 
 is coming to us. 
 
 ^ In the Hartford Lunch you are supplied 
 with everything you need and with none 
 of the things you do not need. The bill- 
 of-fare is simple and yet ample for the 
 needs of the man or woman who eats to 
 live, and is not interested gastronomically 
 in lobster-palaces or personally in the 
 lobsters who frequent them. Here every- 
 thing is palatable, nutritious, cleanly, and 
 of the highest quality obtainable. We 
 play no seconds. Whether it is coffee, 
 some old-fashioned Boston Baked Beans 
 with Ketchup, or Yankee Donuts, every- 
 thing is of the best and is prepared as 
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FOREJFORD 
 
 The story of Alexander Hamilton reads like 
 a chapter from the Arabian Nights. Of 
 >bscure origin, like Topsy, he appears to have 
 ''just g rowed,'' yet he attained a place in 
 the country's history second to none. His 
 face was the face of Julius Caesar — and 
 like Jidius he was struck down at the height 
 of his fame. 
 
 Surrounded, worshiped, gay, convivial, as 
 he was, no mortal could ever have stood more 
 utterly alone than Hamilton. On the day of 
 the funeral, New York was black. Every 
 business house was closed. The eulogy pro- 
 nounced aver his grave in Trinity Church- 
 yard by his friend Gouverneur Morris may 
 well be quoted here: '* / declare to you before 
 that God in whose presence we are now so 
 especially assembled, that in his most pri- 
 vate and confidential conversations, his sole 
 object of discussion was your freedom and 
 happiness . ... He never lost sight of your 
 inifirest<i. For himself he feared nothing: 
 
but he feared that bad men mighty by false 
 professions y acqiiireyour confidence and abuse 
 it to your ruin. He was ambitious only of 
 glory, but he was deeply solicitous of you." 
 Alexander's monument in Trinity Church- 
 yard bears this inscription: 
 " To the memory of Alexander Hamilton, 
 the Corporation of Trinity have erected this 
 monument, in testimony of their respect for 
 the Patriot of incorruptible integrity, the 
 soldier of approved valour, the statesman of 
 consummate ivisdom, ivhose talents and vir- 
 tues will be admired by grateful posterity, 
 long after this marble shall have moiddered 
 to dust. He died July 12th, 180 Ji., aged 4^7." 
 ^ For any of our Hartford patrons who, 
 after reading the ivonderfully sympathetic 
 and illuminating story of Hamilton's life 
 as told by Elbert Hubbard, wish to read 
 further, I would recommend the work of 
 Gertrude Atherton, the gifted Californian 
 novelist, who in The Conqueror, has told 
 for all time, in all its details, the true and 
 romantic story of Alexander Hamilton. 
 
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 ^VERY strong man has had 
 a splendid mother. Alexander 
 Hamilton's mother was a 
 woman of wit, beauty and 
 education. While very young, through the 
 machinations of her elders, she had been 
 married to a man much older than her- 
 self — rich, wilful and dissipated. 
 And so this finely organized, receptive, 
 aspiring woman found her feet mired in 
 quicksand. She struggled to free herself, 
 and every effort only sank her deeper. 
 The relentless environment only held her 
 with firmer clutch. 
 
 She thirsted for knowledge, for sweet 
 music, for beauty, for sympathy, for 
 
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attainment. She had a hearki-hunger that 
 none about her understood. She strove for 
 better things. She prayed to God, but the 
 heavens were as brass; she cried aloud, 
 and the only answer was the throbbing of 
 her restless heart. 
 
 In this condition, a son was born to her. 
 They called his name Alexander Hamilton. 
 This child was heir to all his mother's 
 splendid ambitions. Her lack of oppor- 
 tunity was his blessing; for the stifled 
 aspirations of her soul charged his being 
 with a strong man's desires, and all the 
 mother's silken, unswerving will was 
 woven through his nature. He was to 
 surmount obstacles that she could not 
 overcome, and to tread imder his feet 
 difl&culties that to her were invincible! 
 But earth's buflfets were too severe for the 
 brave young woman; the forces in league 
 against her were more than she could 
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withstand, and before her boy was out 
 •f baby dresses she gave up the struggle, 
 and went to her long rest, soothed only 
 by the thought that, although she had 
 sorely blundered, she yet had done her 
 work as best she could. 
 
 T his mother's death, we find 
 Alexander Hamilton taken in 
 charge by certain njystical kins- 
 men. Evidently he was well cared for, as 
 he grew into a handsome, strong lad- 
 small, to be sure, but finelj^ formed. 
 Where he learned to read, write and 
 cipher we know not; he seems to have had 
 one of those active, alert minds that can 
 acquire knowledge on a barren island. 
 When nine years old, he signed his name 
 iS witness to a deed. The signature is 
 needlessly large and bold, and written 
 with careful schoolboy pains, but the 
 
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writing shows the same characteristics 
 that mark the thousand and one dis- 
 patches which we have, signed at bottom, 
 ** G. Washington." 
 
 About this time, the boy was also showing 
 signs of Hterary skill by writing sundry '^^ 
 poems and " compositions," and one of 
 his efforts in this line describing a tropical 
 hurricane was published in a London 
 paper. This opened the eyes of the 
 mystical kinsmen to the fact that they 
 had a genius among them, and the elder 
 Hamilton was importuned for money to 
 send the boy to Boston that he might 
 receive a proper education and come back 
 and own the store and be a magistrate and 
 a great man. No doubt the lad pressed the 
 issue, too, for his ambition had already 
 begun to ferment, as we find him writing 
 to a friend, " I '11 risk my life, though not 
 my character, to exalt my station," 
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Most great things in America have to take 
 their rise in Boston; so it seems m^ that 
 Alexander Hamilton, aged fifteen, a 
 British West-Indian subject, should first 
 set foot on American soil at Long Wharf, 
 Boston. He took a ferry over to Cam- 
 bridgeport and walked through the woods 
 three miles to Harvard College. Possibly 
 he did not remain because his training in 
 a bookish way had not been sufficient for 
 him to enter, and possibly he did not 
 like the Puritanic visage of the old pro- 
 fessor who greeted him on the threshold 
 of Massachusetts Hall; at any rate, he 
 soon made his way to New Haven. Yale 
 suited him no better, and he took a 
 boat for New York. 
 
 He had letters to several good clergymen 
 in New York, and they proved wise and 
 good counselors. The boy was advised to 
 take a course at the Grammar School at 
 
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Elizabethtown, New Jersey &^ &^ 
 There he remained a year, applying him- 
 self most vigorously, and the next Fall 
 he knocked at the gate of King's College. 
 It is called Columbia now, because kings 
 in America went out of fashion, and all 
 honors formerly paid to the king were 
 turned over to Miss Columbia, Goddess 
 of Freedom. King's College swung wide 
 its doors for the swarthy little West 
 Indian. He was allowed to choose his own 
 course, and every advantage of the 
 university was offered him. 
 Hamilton improved each passing moment 
 as it flew; with the help of a tutor he threw 
 himself into his work, gathering up 
 knowledge with the quick perception and 
 eager alertness of one from whom the 
 good things of earth have been withheld. 
 ^ Yet he lived well and spent his money 
 rts if .there were plenty more where it 
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came from J bit I" It c w-tm nwvot ^i flr ^i ip atioti ■ 
 
 This was in the year Seventeen Hundred 
 Seventy-four, and the Colonies were in a 
 state of poHtical excitement 5^ Young 
 Hamilton's sympathies were all with the 
 mother country. He looked upon the 
 Americans, for the most part, as a rude, 
 crude and barbaric people, who should be 
 very grateful for the protection of such an 
 all-powerful country as England. At his 
 boarding-house and at school, he argued 
 the question hotly, defending England's 
 right to tax her dependencies. 
 One fine day, one of his schoolmates put 
 the question to him flatly: "In case of 
 war on which side will you fight? " Hamil- 
 ton answered, " On the side of England." 
 ^ But by the next day he had reasoned it 
 out that if England succeeded in suppress- 
 ing the rising insurrection she would take 
 
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all credit to herself; and if the Colonies 
 succeeded there would be honors for those 
 who did the, work. Suddenly it came over 
 him that there was such a thing as " the 
 divine right of insurrection," and that 
 there was no reason why men living in 
 America should be taxed to support a 
 government across the sea. 
 He was young, and burning with a lofty 
 ambition. He knew, and had known all 
 along, that he would some day be great 
 and famous and powerful — here was the 
 opportunity &^ &^ 
 
 And so, next day, he announced at the 
 boarding-house that the eloquence and 
 logic of his messmates were too powerful 
 to resist — he believed the Colonies and 
 the messmates were in the right. Then 
 several bottles were brought in, and suc- 
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Shortly after the young man's conversion, 
 there was a mass-meeting held in *' The 
 Fields,*' which meant the wilds of what is 
 now the region of Twenty -third Street. 
 Young Hamilton stood in the crowd and 
 heard the various speakers plead the cause 
 of the Colonies, and urge that New York 
 should stand firm with Massachusetts 
 against the further encroachments and 
 persecutions of England. There were 
 many Tories in the crowd, for New York 
 was with King George as against Mass- 
 achusetts, and these Tories asked the 
 speakers embarrassing questions that 
 the speakers failed to answer. And all the 
 time young Hamilton found himself 
 nearer and nearer the platform. Finally, 
 he undertook to reply to a talkative 
 Tory, and some one shouted, " Give him 
 the platform — the platform! " and in a 
 moment this seventeen-year-old boy 
 
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found himself facing two thousand people. 
 There was hesitation and embarrassment, 
 V)ut the shouts of one of his college chums, 
 '' Give it to *em! Give it to 'em! " filled 
 ia an awkward instant, and he began to 
 speak. There was logic and lucidity of 
 expression, and as he talked the air be- 
 came charged with reasons, and all he 
 had to do was to reach up and seize them. 
 ^ His strong and passionate nature gave 
 gravity to his sentences, and every 
 quibbling objector found himself answered 
 and more than answ^ered, and the speakers 
 who were to present the case found this 
 stripling doing the work so much better 
 than they could, that they urged him on 
 with, applause and loud cries of "Bravo! " 
 Immediately at the close of Hamilton's 
 speech, the chairman had the good sense 
 to declare the meeting adjourned — thus 
 simtting off all reply, as well as closing the 
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mouths of the minnow orators who 
 usually pop up to neutralize the impression 
 that the strong man has made. 
 Hamilton's speech was the talk of the 
 town. The leading Whigs sought him out 
 and begged that he would write down his 
 address so that they could print it as a 
 pamphlet in reply to the Tory pam- 
 phleteers who were vigorously circulating 
 their wares. The pens of ready writers 
 were scarce in those days: men could 
 argue, but to present a forcible written 
 brief was another thing. So young 
 Hamilton put his reasons on paper, and 
 their success surprised the boys at the 
 boarding-house, and the college chums 
 and the professors, and probably himself 
 as well. His name was on the lips of all 
 Whigdom, and the Tories sent messengers 
 to buy him oflF. 
 
 But Congress was willing to pay its 
 
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 defenders, and money came from some- 
 where — not much, but all the young man 
 needed. College was dropped; the political 
 pot boiled; and the study of history, 
 economics and statecraft filled the day- 
 light hours to the brim and often ran over 
 into the night. 
 
 The winter of Seventeen Hundred 
 Seventy -five passed away; the plot 
 thickened. New York had reluctantly 
 consented to be represented in Congress 
 and agreed grumpily to join hands with 
 the Colonies. The redcoats had marched 
 out to Concord — and back; and the em- 
 battled farmers had stood and fired the 
 shot " heard 'round the w^orld." 
 Hamilton was working hard to brmg New 
 York over to an understanding that she 
 •must stand firm against English rule. He 
 organized meetings, gave addresses, wrote 
 letters, newspaper articles and pamphlets. 
 
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Then he joined a military company and 
 perfected himself in the science of war. 
 Then came the British ship *' Asia " and 
 opened fire on the town. This no doubt 
 made \\Tiigs of a good many Tories. 
 Whig sentiment was on the increase; 
 gangs of men marched through the streets 
 and the king's stores were broken into, 
 and prominent Royalists found their 
 houses being threatened. 
 Doctor Cooper, President of King's 
 College, had been very pronounced in his 
 rebukes to Congress and the Colonies, and 
 a mob made its way to his house. Arriving 
 there, Hamilton and his chum Troup were 
 found on the steps, determined to protect 
 the place. Hamilton stepped forward, and 
 in a strong speech urged that Doctor 
 Cooper had merely expressed his own 
 private views, which he had a right to do, 
 and the house must not on any account 
 
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be molested. While the parley was in 
 progress, old Doctor Cooper himself 
 appeared at one of the upper windows and 
 excitedly cautioned the crowd not to 
 listen to that blatant young rapscallion 
 Hamilton, as he was a rogue and a varlet 
 and a vagrom. The good Doctor then 
 slammed the window and escaped by the 
 back way *•► *^ 
 
 His remarks raised a laugh in which even 
 young Hamilton joined, but his mistake 
 was very natural in view of the fact that 
 he only knew that Hamilton had deserted 
 the college and espoused the devil's cause; 
 and not having heard his remarks, but 
 seeing him standing on his steps harangu- 
 ing a crowd, thought surely he was en- 
 deavoring to work up mischief against 
 his old preceptor, who had once plucked 
 him in Greek. 
 
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IT seems to have been the inten- 
 tion of his guardians that Jthe 
 Hmit of young Hamilton's stay 
 in America was to be two years, and by 
 that time his education would be 
 '* complete," and he would return to the 
 West Indies and surprise the natives. 
 But young Hamilton knew all that Nevis 
 had in store for him: he knew its littleness, 
 and in the secret recesses of his own 
 strong heart he had slipped the cable 
 that held him to the past. 
 For England he once had had an idolatrous 
 regard; to him she had once been the 
 protector of his native land, the empress 
 of the seas, the enlightener of mankind; 
 but henceforth he was an American. 
 He was to fight America's battles, to share 
 in her victory, to help make of her a great 
 Nation, and to weave his name into the 
 web of her history so that as long as the 
 
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United States of America shall be re- 
 membered, so long also shall be remember- 
 ed the name of Alexander Hamilton. 
 
 ^^w^HAT General Washington called 
 ^ I ^ his "family " usually consisted of 
 V M X sixteenmen.These were his aides, 
 and more than that, his counselors and 
 friends. In Washington's frequent use of 
 that expression, '* my family," there is a 
 touch of affection that we do not expect 
 to find in the tents of war. In rank, the 
 staff ran the gamut from captain to 
 general. Each man had his appointed 
 work and made a daily report to his chief. 
 When not in actual action, the family 
 dined together daily, and the affair was 
 conducted with considerable ceremony. 
 Washington sat at the head of the table, 
 large, handsome and dignified. At his 
 right hand was seated the guest of honor, 
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and there were usually several invited 
 friends. At his left sat Alexander Hamilton 
 ready with quick pen to record the orders 
 of his chief. 
 
 And methinks it would have been quite 
 worth while to have had a place at that 
 board, and looked down the table at " the 
 strong, fine face, tinged with melan- 
 choly," of Washington; and the cheery, 
 youthful faces of Lawrence, Tilghman, 
 Lee, Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton 
 and the others of that brave and hand- 
 some company. Well might they have 
 called Washington father, for this he was 
 in spirit to them all — grave, gentle, 
 courteous and magnanimous, yet exacting 
 strict and instant obedience from all; and 
 well, too, may we imagine that this 
 obedience was freely and cheerfully given. 
 ^ Hamilton became one of Washington's 
 family on March First, Seventeen Hun- 
 
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dred Seventy-seven, with the rank of 
 lieutenant-colonel. He was barely twenty 
 years of age; Washington was forty-seven, 
 and the average age of the family, omit- 
 ting its head, was twenty-five. All had been 
 selected on account of superior intelli- 
 gence and a record of dashing courage. 
 When Hamilton took his place at the 
 board, he was the youngest member, save 
 one. In point of literary talent, he stood 
 among the very foremost in the country, 
 for then there was no literature in America 
 save the literature of politics; and as an 
 officer, he had shown rare skill and 
 bravery o^ *•• 
 
 And yet, such was Hamilton's ambition 
 and confidence in himself, that he 
 hesitated to accept the position, and con- 
 sidered it an act of sacrifice to do so. But 
 having once accepted, he threw himself 
 into the work and became Washington's 
 
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most intimate and valued assistant. 
 As an aide to Washington, Hamilton's 
 most important mission was when he was 
 sent to General Gates to secure reinforce- 
 ments for the Southern army. Gates had 
 defeated Burgoyne and won a full dozen 
 stern victories in the North. In the mean- 
 time, Washington had done nothing but 
 make a few brave retreats. Gates' army 
 was made up of hardy and seasoned 
 soldiers, who had met the enemy and 
 defeated him over and over again. The 
 flush of success was on their banners; and 
 Washington knew that if a few thousand 
 of those rugged veterans could be secured 
 to reinforce his own loyal, but well-nigh 
 discouraged troops, victory would also 
 perch upon the banners of the South. 
 As a superior officer he had the right to 
 demand these troops; but to reduce the 
 force of a general who is making an 
 
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excellent success is not the common rule 
 of war. The country looked upon Gates as 
 its savior, and Gates was feeling a little 
 that way himself. Gates had but to 
 demand it, and the position of Command- 
 er-in-Chief would go to him. Washington 
 thoroughly realized this, and therefore 
 hesitated about issuing an order request- 
 ing a part of Gates' force. To secure these 
 troops as if the suggestion came from 
 Gates was a most delicate commission. 
 Alexander Hamilton was dispatched to 
 Gates' headquarters, armed, as a last 
 resort,with a curt military order to the 
 effect that he should turn over a portion 
 of his army to Washington. Hamilton's 
 orders were: "Bring the troops, but do 
 not deliver this order unless you are 
 obliged to." 
 
 Hamilton brought the troops, and re- 
 turned the order with seal intact. 
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^ x\t Yorktown, Washington gave Hamil- 
 ton the perilous privilege of leading the 
 assault. Hamilton did his work well, 
 rushing with fiery impetuosity upon the 
 fort — carried all before him, and in ten 
 minutes had planted the Stars and Stripes 
 on the raniparts of the enemy. 
 It was a fine and fitting close to his 
 glorious military career. 
 
 ^-«-^HEN Washington became 
 ^ I ^ President, the most important 
 \M^f office to be filled was, that of 
 manager of the exchequer. In fact, all 
 there was of it was the office — there was 
 no treasury, no mint, no fixed revenue, 
 no credit; but there were debts — ^foreign 
 and domestic — and clamoring creditors 
 by the thousand. The debts consisted of 
 what was then the vast sum of eighty 
 million dollars. The treasury was empty. 
 
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Robert Morris, who had managed the 
 finances during the period of the Confed- 
 eration, utterly refused to attempt the task 
 again, but he named a man who, he said, 
 could bring order out of chaos, if any living 
 man could. That man was Alexander Ham- 
 ilton. Washington appealed to Hamilton, 
 offering him the position of Secretary of 
 the Treasury. Hamilton, aged thirty-two, 
 gave up his law practise, which was 
 yielding him ten thousand a year, to 
 accept this office which paid three 
 thousand five hundred. 
 To such a degree of confidence did 
 Hamilton raise the public credit that in a 
 very short time the government found no 
 trouble in borrowing^^all the money it 
 needed at four per cent; and yet this was 
 done in face of the fact that its debt had 
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'T has been the usual practise for 
 nearly a hundred years to refer 
 to Aaron Burr as a roue, a rogue 
 and a thorough villain, who took the life 
 of a gentle and innocent man. 
 I have no apologies to make for Colonel 
 Burr; the record of his life lies open in 
 many books, and I would neither conceal 
 nor explain away. 
 
 If I should attempt to describe the man 
 and liken him to another, that man 
 would be Alexander Hamilton. 
 They were the same age within ten 
 months; they were the same height within 
 an inch; their weight was the same within 
 five pounds, and in temperament and 
 disposition they resembled each other as 
 brothers seldom do. Each was passionate, 
 ambitious, proud. 
 
 In the drawing-room where one of these 
 men chanced to be, there was room for no 
 
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one else — such was the vivacity, the wit, 
 and the generous, glowing good-nature 
 shown. With women, the manner of these 
 men was most gentle and courtly; and the 
 low, alluring voice of each was music's 
 honeyed flattery set to words. 
 Both were much under the average height, 
 yet the carriage of each was so proud and 
 imposing that everywhere they went 
 men made way, and women turned and 
 stared. ^ Both were public speakers and 
 lawyers of such eminence that they took 
 their pick of clients and charged all the 
 fee that policy would allow. In debate, 
 there was a wilful aggressiveness, a fiery 
 sureness, a lofty certainty, that moved 
 judges and juries to do their bidding. 
 In point of classic education. Burr had 
 the advantage. He was the grandson of 
 the Reverend Jonathan Edwards. In his 
 strong personal magnetism, and keen, 
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many-sided intellect, Aaron Burr strongly 
 resembled the gifted Presbyterian divine 
 who wrote ** Sinners in the Hands of an 
 Angry God." His father was the Reverend 
 Aaron Burr, President of Princeton 
 College. He was a graduate of Princeton, 
 and, like Hamilton, always had the ability 
 to focus his mind on the subject in hand, 
 and wring from it its very core. Burr's 
 reputation as to his susceptibility to 
 women's charms is the world's common 
 — very common — property 5«» He was 
 unhappily married; his wife died before 
 he was thirty; he was a man of ardent 
 nature and stalked through the world a 
 conquering Don Juan. 
 Hamilton was happily married to a 
 woman of aristocratic family; rich, 
 educated, intellectual, gentle, and worthy 
 of him at his best. They had a family of 
 eight children. I H^jmLtofir- was a. -favorite 
 
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of women evor^^^be re; and waslnb rod uj) ~ 
 in • vario u s 'se€m<iftloH8 4»tt4^tte6 . Ek mas 
 an--easy-^«fti^f or a"3esighin^-wauian . -fe 
 oBe Jin s t a n c e , tb e-^ ff .i ir was ri oi ff r H ^^pn n 
 by his political foes^Trrrd mat fc capital o f to 
 his sore disadvantage* Hamik^ft-«aet4Jie 
 issue by writing a pamphlet, laying feare- 
 the entire- shameless affair," to the Horror 
 oi his family antl friends, X^^ies^^ofthis 
 pampyet-itiay beisieen' iff the roionig oftfte 
 Am^rkaft'nigTDliL'nl Snrinty at Now Yovk-. 
 Q Burr had been Attorney-General of 
 New York State and also United States 
 Senator. Each man had served on Wash- 
 ington's staff; each had a brilliant 
 military record; each had acted as second 
 in a duel; each recognized the honor of 
 the code. 
 
 Stern political differences arose, not so 
 much through matters of opinion and 
 conscience, as through ambitious rivalry. 
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Neither was willing the other should rise, 
 
 yet both thirsted for place and power. 
 
 Burr ran for the Presidency, and was 
 
 sternly, strongly, bitterly opposed as ** a 
 
 dangerous man " by Hamilton. 
 
 At the election one more electoral vote 
 
 would have given the highest office of the 
 
 people to Aaron Burr; as it was he tied 
 
 with Jefferson. The matter was thrown 
 
 into the House of Representatives, and 
 
 Jefferson was given the office, with Burr 
 
 as Vice-President. Burr considered, and 
 
 perhaps rightly, that were it not for 
 
 Hamilton's assertive influence he would 
 
 have been President of the United States. 
 
 fl While still Vice-President, Burr sought 
 
 to become Governor of New York, 
 
 thinking this the surest road to receiving 
 
 the nomination for the Presidency at the 
 
 next election *•► *•► 
 
 Hamilton openly and bitterly opposed 
 
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 Burr considered, and rightly, that were it 
 not for Hamilton's influence he would 
 have been Governor of New York. 
 Burr, smarting un^ler the sting of this 
 continual opposition by a man who him- 
 self was shelved politically through his 
 own too fiery ambition, sent a note by his 
 friend Van Ness to Hamilton, asking 
 whether the language he had used con- 
 cerning him (** a dangerous man ") 
 referred to him politically or personally. 
 ^Hamilton replied evasively, saying he 
 could not recall all that he might have 
 said during fifteen years of public life. 
 " Especially,'* he said in his letter, " it 
 can not be reasonably expected that I 
 shall enter into any explanation upon a 
 basis so vague as you have adopted. I 
 trust on more reflection you will see the 
 matter in the same light. If not, however, 
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 When fighting men use fighting language 
 they invite a challenge, Hamilton's ex- 
 cessively polite regret that he " must 
 abide the consequences *' simply meant 
 fight, as his language had for a space of 
 ^^ five years. ^ 
 
 A challenge was sent by the hand of 
 Pendleton. Hamilton accepted. Being the 
 challenged man (for duelists are always 
 polite), he was given the choice of 
 weapons. He chose pistols at ten paces. 
 ^, At seven o'clock on the morning of 
 July Eleventh, Eighteen Hundred Four, 
 the participants met on the heights of 
 Weehawken, overlooking New York Bay. 
 On a toss Hamilton won the choice of 
 position and his second also won the right 
 .)f giving the word to fire. 
 Each man removed his coat and cravat; 
 
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the pistols were loaded in their presence. 
 As Pendleton handed his pistol to Hamil- 
 ton he asked, " Shall I set the hair- 
 trigger? '* " Not this time," replied 
 Hamilton. With pistols primed and 
 cocked, the men were stationed facing 
 each other, thirty feet apart. 9 Both were 
 pale, but free from any visible nervous- 
 ness or excitement. Neither had partaken 
 of stimulants. Each was asked if he had 
 anything to say, or if he knew of any way 
 by which the affair could be terminated 
 there and then. 
 
 Each answered quietly in the negative. 
 Pendleton, standing fifteen feet to the 
 right of his principal, said: ** One — two — 
 three — present! " and as the last final 
 sounding of the letter "t" escaped his 
 teeth, Burr fired, followed almost instantly 
 by the other. 
 
 Hamilton arose convulsively on his toes, 
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eled, and Burr, dropping his smoking 
 istol, sprang towards him to support him, 
 n look of regret on his face. 
 Van Ness raised an unibrella over the 
 fallen man, and motioned Burr to be gone. • 
 ^The ball passed through Hamilton's 
 ody, breaking a rib, and lodging in the 
 cond lumbar vertebra, 
 he bullet from Hamilton's pistol cut a 
 wig four feet above Burr's head. 
 Hamilton died the following day, first 
 declaring that he bore Colonel Burr no 
 ill-will &^ &^ 
 
 Colonel Burr said he very much regretted 
 
 •he w^hole affair, but the language and 
 
 titude of Hamilton forced him to send 
 
 challenge or remain quiet and be 
 
 randed as a coward. He fully realized 
 
 «'fore the meeting that if he killed 
 
 Hamilton it would be political death for 
 
 him, too. 
 
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At the time of the deed Burr had no 
 family; Hamilton had a wife and sevisn 
 children, his oldest son having fallen in 
 a duel fought three years before on the 
 identical spot where he, too, fell. 
 Burr fled the country. 
 Three years afterward, he was arrested 
 for treason in trj^ing to found an inde- 
 pendent state within the borders of the 
 United States. He was tried and found 
 not guilty. 
 
 After some years spent abroad he re- 
 turned and took up the practise of law in 
 New York. He was fairly successful, lived 
 a modest, quiet life, and died September 
 Fourteenth, Eighteen Hundred Thirty- 
 six, aged eighty years. 
 Hamilton's widow survived him just one- 
 half a century, dying in her ninety-eighth 
 year s^ s^ 
 
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