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Editor's Closet.

GENERAL HAMILTON.

HUDSON, (New-York) TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1804.

THE following are the paffages in Holt's publication against Hamilton, on which we promifed fome additional remarks.

The fame ideas have been advanced, in other papers, though fomewhat differently expreffed. It is proper, therefore, that this attempt to mislead public opinion, by awakening political party prejudices, fhould be arrested in the outfet.

"General Hamilton's friends (fays the "Bee,) have gone over the extremeft "bounds of reason in their panegyric on the "deceased, and extolled him to fuch a de"gree as to wound the feelings and flander "the good fame of the living. He is rep"refented unequivocally as having been "the greatest and best man in the United "States at the time of his death, and as

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being a lofs to our country beyond the "power of the prefent generation to repair. And this libel on a Jefferson a "Madison, a Gallatin, &c. &c. we per. "ceive ourselves perfectly juftifiable in

• There are various opinions with respect to the author of the attacks on Gen. Hamilton, which have af peared in the Bee. Holt, by placing them under his editorial head, claims them as his own. Indeed, we can see no reason to doubt that he writes them ; -they are inelegant, incorrect, malignant, base and false-therefore, if not written by him, they are written by somebody exactly like him.

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repelling, though at the expence of der

ogating from this factitious reputation "Gen. Hamilton has fo fuddenly obtain"ed.

"In doing this we would remark that "we allow in their fullest extent his tranf"cendent abilities at the American bar, "where we are not prepared to fay he "has left his equal. We admit him "to have been a masterly orator, an hon"eft counsellor, an able foldier, finan"cier and flatefman, and an accomplish"ed gentleman; and this is all we can "admit."

In remarking on thefe paffages, we fhall avoid every thing like party diftinctions. In matters of this nature they ought to be laid afide: For it is an undoubted fact, that political prejudice runs fo high at this day, that in deciding on the comparative merits of a federalift and a democrat, people would take their fide as promptly as at a warmly contested elec

tion.

The Bee fays, without taking any means to prove it, that injuftice has been done to our living patriots, by the panegyric bestowed on the departed Hamilton; but we fhall endeavor to fhew, and, we truft, with fuccefs, that his own affertions prove the contrary.

In the first place, we cannot conceive, how we can "wound the feelings" or "flander the good fame" of one man, by extolling another. No good man can feel hurt because another good man is extolled. A man must be extremely envious, whofe feelings are wounded, or who conceives his fame flandered, by the praife heftowed on a great and diftinguished character..

But, fays the Bee, Gen. Hamilton is reprefented as having been the greatest and best man in the United States at the time o his death; and this, he adds, is a libel on a Jefferfon, a Madifon, a Gallatin, &c. &c. Here then, we are told, in plain terms, where the Shoe pinches. The

friends of Gen. Hamilton have offended the fage editor of the Bee, because they have not fpoken of him in the following manner-" Gen. Hamilton was the greateft and beft man in the country, excepting a Jefferfon, a Madifon, a Gallatin, a Granger, a Randolph, a Dearborn, a Lincoln, half a dozen Clintons, as many Livingftons, a Lewis, a Spencer, a Burr, &c. &c. &c. &c." And the Bee thinks himfelf juftifiable in repelling this libel, by attempting to bring Hamilton down to the grade in which he wishes him placed.

It ought to be obferved, that there is a material mifreprefentation in the above. quotation from the Bee. The friends of Gen. Hamilton have not reprefented him as being the greatest and best man in the United States. They have declared him. to be a man, "take him for all in all," without an equal; and fince the Bee has condefcended to tell us how many good qualities he is willing to allow him, we will fee if these alone are not fufficient to render him fuperior to either a Jefferson, a Madifon, a Gallatin, or the whole of them. taken together.

In the first place, the Bee allows "in their fullest extent," Gen. Hamilton's "tranfcendent abilities at the American Bar," and acknowledges that he has not there left his equal. How, then, can the declaration, that his death" is a lofs to our country beyond the power of the pre

&c?

urther admits Gen. Hamilton

"a masterly orator, an hon. Hor, an able foldier, finanatefman, and an accomplishman." And now we wish to of the three wonderful men, d their feelings wounded by Hamilton, is to be fet up as in these particulars. Who is - orator? Is it Jefferson, or - Gallatin? We believe that ing his ignorance of the Enge, is the better orator of the et, we prefume, that Major Jacob Alter, of the Pennfylature, would think themfelves re Gallatin to be declared fu. Which of the three, is rior to Hamilton in the charn able foldier ?" Not Madifon atin: But Mr. Jefferson has ble," if not valorous-for

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have but one object-the promotion of Burr's fame by the depression of Hamilton's. There can be no great difficulty, however, in discovering Holt's inducement for carrying on this work of destruction. His repeated avowal of what he conceives to be the duty of an editor, furnishes a tolerably gocd clue to the business, especially when taken in connection with what he calls his "concluding remarks" in the last Bee. He there says, "If the reverend eulogist [Mr. Mason] be considered merely as a venal speaker, exerting his great talents for reward, his eulegium entitles him to much credit," &c. This observation, I say, taken in connection with Holt's repeated avowal, that an editor should be to his patrons, as a lawyer to his client-that is, that he should take up on this side or that side, whether right or wrong, for a fee, affords strong ground for suspicion that something like a fee or reward has in

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duced this villainous attack on Gen. Hamilton. If

this is the case, Holt's apology will be—" I am a venal writer-I write for reward-my writings therefore entitle me to much credit." He is entirely welcome to all the credit to be derived from this conduct. For my part, I was never taught to believe, that a rascally act did its author a whit the more honor, for his being paid for it.

Though it is extremely painful to me to be compelled, by the baseness of my opponents, to make the defence in which I am now engaged; yet THE FAME OF HAMILTON MUST BE PROTECTED; and if any of my readers conceive, that the insignificance of my antagonist ought to shield him from animadversion, let them reflect, that the poisonous sting of the asp is as much to be dreaded as the jaws of the crocodile, and that the heel of an ass, sometimes does as much mischief as the paw of a wolf.

Holt's last publication against Hamilton, consists of remarks on certain passages which are said to be extracted from the Rev. Mr. Mason's eulogium. Whether these extracts are faithfully and correctly made, or not, I cannot say, not having seen the work. I am, therefore, willing to let them pass as. genuine, though Holt's general conduct would not warrant the belief.

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painter And, above all ? Holt might as well say, to Hamilton, because he Hamilton's friends say, undertook; and, until a

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The remarks throughout, are nothing but a tissue of the most foul and unfounded slanders-dark and malicious insinuations-cruel and bitter sneer-in short, of stupidity and meanness, in all their bearings and attitudes. In the first place it is asserted, that "Hamilton's personal honor has been question- catastrophe, and thus sc "ed, tested, and found wanting, in the opinion of "at least three whom he challenged and did not

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fight." Holt has once before made this charge, though in more vague terms, and why he now re

peats it, upon his naked word, without the smallest

cerns.

The "Organ of the P seems to be getting at log democratic editors. He l tor of the National Aegi wrangling with Mr. MC man's Journal, a democra

should receive so much as

corroborative circumstance, I cannot tell. Nobody else has thought of making such an assertion; and it cannot be supposed that Helt alone would be ac. quainted with the fact, if it were true. The names of the persons said to be challenged are not mention-ladelphia. Duane is not e ed. We are not told where ard when they were challenged, nor where they now reside. If such men exist, let them be named. Let them stand forth and support the charge. If this is not done, it may fairly be inferred that the whole of the story is a de estable calumny. But Holt says, kedare presume to

and fishes of public patron all for his own dear self

"For he that has b "To all things has a By the following note

ean, it would seem that its editor, S. Morse, and Duane are not the best of friends. Morse says that "not every one has seen Duane as much, or marked him as well, as he has." And that," Duane is a man incapable of supporting high prosperity. It has intoxicated him." Morse foresaw this when he was with him." We think there is but little danger of high prosperity intoxicating Morse; if there should be, we would recommend to him to send immediately to his fellow labourer in iniquity, Charles Holt, for relief, as he is not apt to be much intoxicated with high prosperity.

Here is Morse's paragraph :—

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the fame of Gen. Hamilton made its appearance, feveral of his fubfcribers have withdrawn their patronage.

The following fact is copied from the American Citizen, and is given as fupple. mentary to the statement in our laft, concerning the death of Gen. Hamilton

The following paragraph, taken from a London paper, appeared in the Morning Chronicle of this city about a month ago.

A fingular circumflance." A piftol "Citizen Duane will acknowledge that loaded, was fired inadvertantly against a I am not guilty of the fin of ingratitude in young woman, in Manchefter; the ball publishing the tollowing extract of a letter ftruck against her breaft, but having a filk from a republican of integrity and ftand. handkerchief on, it did her no other ining not a thousand miles from Philadel-jury than produce a violent contufion.phia. After mentioning the denounceThis produced the following wager; that ment of feveral republicans in the Aurora a ball would not penetrate a dog if coverwhofe worth and integrity are as much fu ed with a filk handkerchief. The trial perior to Duane's as his to James Thomp- was made along fhore, near Liverpool a fon Callender's, to fay the leaft, the letter few days ago, with fuccefs, and although adds, "Duane appears to be a man incarepeated several times, produced no other pable of fupporting high profperity. It effect than bruifing the part where the ball has intoxicated him." This I forefaw hit. Singular as this may appear, we are when I was with him. His public favors affured by our informant, that it is a fact to the editor of the Georgia Republican and that no ball will. penetrate a body induces that editor to fay, not every one clothed with a filk garment." has feen Duane as much, or marked him as well as S. MORSE."

If Selleck Osborn wishes an explanation of all the four following lines (from my song for the 4th of July) he shall be gratified; but the two first alone seem to require but little explanation :"And though an upstart chief may claim The laurels by those heroes gain'd; Tho' knaves may strive to blast their fame, And tho' their mem'ry be prophan'd,"

A SMALL LIE.

In the American Mercury of the 9th inft. under the head of "Republican Addrefs," a certain document is republished, which, the writer fays, appeared in the Balance. No fuch document was ever published in this paper. I cannot fee the ufe of printing fuch bare-faced fibs.

It is not more than three or four weeks fince I predicted, that the honeft and candid portion of Holt's readers, would by degrees grow weary of the conflant repetition of falfhood which he is weekly crowding into their hands, and that they would, in time, abandon him to his fate, &c. I now find that my prediction is already fulfilling; and I mention the fact with. the more fatisfaction, becaufe it difcovers in fome of my political opponents, a regard for decency and decorum, which is highie honorable. Since Holt's bafe attack on

We have an inflance in our own city

corroborative of thefe facts.

About a fortnight ago, feveral gentlemen went over to Brooklyn to fhoot at a mark for a trifling wager. Mr. E. L. Schieffelin, Druggift in Pearl-ftreet, was one of the company. The parties flood ten paces from the target. Mr. Schieffelin had fired feveral times with accuracy. He again took his pofition to fire. His piftol was loaded as ufual, and, while waiting for the word, hung pendant, with the muzzle below the knee; the ball, of course, was not more than twenty inches from the foot; in this pofition the pistol was accidentally fired. The bal truck the top of the foot near the angle. Surgical aid was obtained. Dr. Burrows was the profeffional gentleman fent for.

Mr. Schieffelin had on ordinary ribbed white filk stockings. On examining the wound it was difcovered, that although the ball entered the foot about half an inch, not a thread of the flocking was broken! The impetus given to the ball extended the threads where it hit, but the flocking was as wholly unbroken as if the accident had not happened. The part which the ball hit was forced into the foot and made a fort of a bag for it. After feparation from the flocking by cutting, the piece or the bag, (if I may fo exprefs myfell) and the ball were taken out together. Í have now in my poffeffion the part of the ftocking which the ball ftruck, and which any one may fee by calling at the office. The circumference of the ball is diftinctly marked upon it; but within this there is not the leaf frafture of the flocking,

In a converfation which I had with Mr. Scheiffelin on Saturday laft he told me that the piftol, when the accident happened, had the ufual charge of powder; he men tioned a middling fized thimble full.

Dr. Burrows has the ball in his poffef fion. The netting and the ribs of the flocking are very diflintly mpreffed upon it. This is a proot of the refiftibility of the filk. Now for the application of thefe fa&ts.

It is fatisfactorily established that, previous and fubfequent to the acceptance of the challenge, Mr. Burr was in the daily habit of fhooting at a mark. On the 4th July, (after the challenge was accepted) he dined with the Cincinnati Society in company with General Hamilton. There is every reafon to believe that, before he left home in the forenoon of that day, he practifed shooting at a mark in his garden. Every member of the Society remarked when he entered, the aufterity of his countenance, which was preferved during the day. Gen. Hamilton was cheerful, and favoured the fociety with feveral fongs.

Nothing can more clearly manifeft the defperate purpose of Mr. Burr than this daily practice, efpecially when we confid

er how fenfible he must have been that Gen. Hamilton was dragged into the interview.

Mr. Burr, however, was not only intent upon calculations of certainty as to the life of his antagonist, but also as to the prefervation of his own.

The extract from the London paper above quoted, in regard to the refiftibility of filk, appeared in the Morning Chronicle about ten days previous to the fatal interview. We know that Mr. Burr practifed fhooting at a mark, but we are not fure that the Morning Chronicle quotation was "put" into his hands and that he tried the experiment of fhooting at filk in order to afcertain how he could beft preferve himfelf from the ball of his illuftrious victim, in cafe he fired. Facis, however, warrant conjectures very unfavorable to Mr. Burr.

After the challenge was accepted Mr. Burr wrote a note to his Tailor, Mr. Francis Davis, requefting that he would make him a filk coat (having already the under garments of filk,) by Monday evening,* and adding that unless it was then brought home it would be of no ufe, as on Tuefday morning by four o'clock he was to leave town! Special directions were given to make the coat unufually large. i was made according to order and delivered to Mr. Barr on Monday evening. In this coat, which was black, he killed Gen. Hamilton.

* The duel was fought on the following Wednesday.

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Agricultural.

EXTRACT.

NEW INVENTION OF PREPARING FLAX

TO LOOK LIKE COTTON OR SILK.

IN

N France, M. Lebrun has invented a new method of preparing hemp and flax. by which he gives thefe raw materials as appearance perfectly new, and obtains

from them a kind of cotton and filk thread. He begins with the tow, the moment it leaves the hands of the cultivator and communicates to it either the foft and adhesive nature of cotton or a brilliancy refembling that of filk.-This preparation, for every purpose of utility or tafte, is fuperior to imported cotton, as it easily af fumes and retains any colour of which it may be dyed, and by the labour of a few individuals, a thousand pounds of tow may be converted into cotton in twenty. four hours. A fecond preparation gives the tow all the fineness and brilliancy of texture that has hitherto been peculiar to filk.

Monitorial.

To aid the cause of virtue and religion.

FOR THE BALANCE.

"Sooner, alas! will pride new gild her coach, Than bid the warming faggot blaze around The hearth where chill necessity residęs."!

THER

HERE is too much truth in thefe lines. Could one hundredth part of the money, expended in the most useless manner by the proud and rich, be applied to the neceffities of the poor, thousands of people who now pine in wretchednefs and want, might be rendered comfortable and happy: But "pride must new gild her coach;" and until this is done, little does the regard the cries of "chill neceffity."Mr. Heartlefs is extremely rich. lives in great fplendor, and annually fquanders large fums for luxuries; but he never extends the hand of charity.He had just expended an hundred pounds

The Balance.

in ornamenting his new houfe. The bill
was prefented for payment. While one
hand was extended with the money, a
poor old man jogged the other elbow,
The beg-
and begged for a few cents.
gar was kicked out of doors.

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MENTOR.

Miscellany.

FOR THE BALANCE.

MR. EDITOR,

I

HAVE copied the following fmall paragraph from a ftray leaf of an Ox. ford Magazine, which was published in the year 1774, and which had got almost defaced by the bad ufage it had received. I think it is not altogether inapplicable to fome of the "over-heated" politicians of the prefent day, who," by the ftrength of their attachment to their party, difcov. er the weakness, if not total demolition of their intellects."- -If you think it deferving, please to give it a place in your truly federal paper.

From the OXFORD MAGAZINE.

Q.

Hamilton.

FROM THE BOSTON REPERTORY.

The following Sketch was prepared immediately after the death of the ever to be lamented HAM. ILTON, and was lately read to a select company of friends, at whose desire it is published:

THERE are fo many perfons, who, from various causes, poffefs only a superficial knowledge of the character of eminent men, that, it is to be expected, the extraordinary marks of grief manifested by the public, on the death of General Hamilton, will to fome appear strange and to others exceffive. America, they may fay, has produced many great men-fome are dead, and others remain alive. Why then should we mourn, as if with a fenfe of defolation and furprife, for a lofs, that by the lot of human nature, has already become familiar, and why mourn to much, as if all was loft, when we have to many great men left, ?

But although General Hamilton has, for fome years, withdrawn from public office to the Bar, and has been, in fome meafure, out of the view and contemplation of his countrymen, there was nevertheless a fplendour in his character that could not be contracted within the ordinary (phere of his employments.

It is with really great men as with great literary works, the excellence of both is beft tefted by the extert and durableness of their impreffion. The public has not fud denly, but after an experience of five and twenty years, taken that impreffion of the juft celebrity of Alexander Hamilton, that nothing but his extraordinary intrinfic merit could have made, and fill lefs, could have made fo deep and maintained fo long. In this cafe, it is fafe and correct to judge by effects. We fometimes calculate the height of a mountain by measuring the length of its fhadow.

"THOSE who are over-heated in favour of a fattion may with fome propriety be compared to the unhappy perfons whofe understandings are difordered by the fury of a fever. There are undoubtedly many people who, by the ftrength of their at tachment to their party, discover the weakness, if not total demolition of their intellects; and who talk and act as if they were not in their prefent fenfes. Perfe&ion, indeed, cannot fairly be looked for in any human creature; but we may surely hope to find, even in a party-man, a tolerable It not a party, for party diftinctions, to fhare of common fenfe. We often fee, the honor of our citizens be it faid, are however, that thofe who are under the confounded by the event; it is a nation dominion of party-fpirit, conduct them-hat weeps for its bereavement. We weep felves with as little difcretion as if the moon had given a fhock to their brains, and prove themfelves, by their deviations from prudence, more fit for St. Luke's than St. James's.'

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FRIENDSHIP.

WHAT is friendship? an interchange of affection and fervices, founded on virtue, and the fympathy of fouls. Deprive fociety of this reciprocal benevolence, and you break every tie; for man depends on

man.

as the Romans did over the alhes of Germanicus. It is a thoughtful, foreboding forrow that takes poffeffion of the heart, and finks it with no counterfeited heaviness.

It is here proper and not invidious to remark, that as the emulation excited by conducting great affairs commonly trains and exhibits great talents, it is feldom the cafe that the faireft and founde ft judgment of a great man's merit is to be gained, ex clufively, from his affociates in counsel or action. Perfons of confpicuous merit are, themfeves not unfrequently, bad judges and

* Ascribed to the Honorable FISHER AMES.

ftill worse witneffes on this point: often rivals, fometimes enemies, almost always unjust, and still oftener envious or cold; the opinion they give to the public, as well as thofe they privately form for themselves; are, of courfe, difcoloured with the hue of their prejudices and resentments.

But the body of the people, who cannot feel a fpirit of rivalfhip towards those whom they fee elevated by nature and education fo far above their heads, are more equitable, and, fuppofing a competent time and opportunity for information on the fubje&t, more intelligent judges. Even party rancour, eager to maim the living, fcerns to ftrip the flain. The most hoftile paffions are foothed or baffled by the fall of their antagonist. Then, if not fooner, the very multitude will fairly decide on character, according to their experience of its im. preffion, and as long as virtue, not unfrequently for a time obfcured, is ever refpectable when diftin&tly feen, they cannot withhold, and they will not flint their

admiration.

If then the popular eflimation is ever to be taken for the true one, the uncommon. ly profound public forrow, for the death. of Alexander Hamilton, fufficiently explains and vindicates itfelf. He had not made himself dear to the paffions of the multitude by condefcending, in defiance of his honor and confcience, to become their inftrument. He is not lamented be caufe a fkilful flatterer is now mute for ever. It was by the practice of no art, by wearing no difguife, it was not by accident, nor by the levity nor profligacy of party, but in defpite of its malignant mifreprefen tation, it was by bold and inflexible adherence to truth, by loving his country better than bimfelf, preferring its intereft to its favor, and ferving it, when it was unwilling and unthankful, in a manner that no other perfon could, that he rofe, and the true popularity, the homage that is paid to virtue, followed him. It was not in the power of party or envy to pull him down, but he rofe, as it fome force of attraction drew him to the fkies. He rofe and the very prejudice that could not reach, was at length almoft ready to adore him.

It is indeed no imagined wound that inflats fo keen an anguish. Since the news of his death, the novel and frange events of Europe have fucceeded each other un regarded, the nation has been enchained to its fubject, and broods over its grief, which is more deep than eloquent; which. though dumb, can make itfelf felt without utterance, and which does not merely pafs, but, like an electrical fhock, at the fame inftant fmites and afton:hes, as it palles from Georgia, to Newhampshire.

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There is a kind of force put upon our thoughts by this difafter that detains and

rivets them to a clofer contemplation of thofe refplendent virtues that are now loft, except to memory, and there they will dwell forever.

That writer would deferve the fame of a public benefactor, who could exhibit the character of Hamilton with the truth and force that all who intimately knew him conceived it: his example would then take the fame afcendant as his talents. The portrait alone, however exquifitely finished could not infpire genius where it is not, but if the world fhould again have is not, but if the world fhould again have poffeffion of fo rare a gift, it might awa ken it where it fleeps, as by a fpark from heaven's own altar: for, furely, if there is any thing like divinity in man, it is in his admiration of virtue.

ed to him below praise, and fuch were his habits and fuch his nature, that the pecuniary temptations, which many others can only with great exertion and felt denial refift, had no attractions for him.He was very far from obftinate. Yet as his friends affailed his opinions with lefs profound thought than he had devoted to them, they were feldom fhaken by dif cuffion. He defended them, however, with as much mildness as force, and evinced that, if he did not yield, it was not for want of gentleness or modefty.

The tears that flow on this fond recital will never dry up. My heart, penetratedwith the remembrance of the man, grows liquid as I write, and I could pour it out, like water. I could weep too for my But who alive can exhibit this portrait ? country, which, mournful as it is, does If our age on that fuppofition more fruit- not know the half of its lofs. It deeply ful than any other, had produced two Ham- laments, when it turns its eyes back, and iltons, one of them might then have de-fees what Hamilton was; but my foul picted the other. To delineate genius one ftiffens with despair when I think what mufi feel its power. Hamilton, and he Hamilton would have been. alone with all its infpiration, could have transfufed its whole tervid foul into the picture, and fwelled its lineaments into life. The writer's mind, expanding with his own enthufiafm, and glowing with kindred fires, would then have ftretched to the dimenfion of his fubject.

His focial affections and his private virtues are not, however, fo properly the object of public attention as the conspicuous and commanding qualities that gave him his fame and influence in the world. It is not as Apollo, enchanting the fhepherds with his lyre, it is as Hercules, treacherously flain in the midst of his unfinifhed labours, leaving the world overrun with monfters, that we most deeply deplore him.

His early life we pafs over-Though his heroic fpirit, in the army, has furnished a theme, that is dear to patriotifm and will be facred to glory.

In all the different ftations in which a life of active ufefulness has placed him, we find him not more remarkably diftinguished by the extent than by the variety and verfatility of his talents. In every place, he made it apparent that no other man could have filled it fo well, and, in times of critical importance, in which al alone he defired employment, his fervices were justly deemed indifpenfable. As Secretary of the Treafury, his was the pow erful fpirit that prefided over the Chaos;

Such is the infirmity of human nature, it is very difficult for a man, who is greatly the fuperior of his affociates, to preferve their friendship without abatement. Yet though Hamilton could not poffibly conceal his fuperiority, he was fo little inclined to difplay it, he was fo much at eafe in its poffeffion, that no jealoufy or envy chilled his bofom, when his friends obtained praife; he was indeed, fo entirely the friend of his friends, fo magnanimous, fo fuperior, or more properly, lo infenfible to all exclufive felfihnels of infenfible to all exclufive felfifhnels of fpirit, fo frank,, fo ardent yet fo little overbearing, fo much trufted, admired, beloved, almoft adored, that his power over their affections was entire and lafted thro' his life. We do not believe that he left any worthy man his foe who had ever been his friend. Men of the most clevated minds have not always the readieft difcernment of character. Perhaps he was fometimes too, fudden and too lavish in beftowing his confidence: his manly fpirit, difdaining artifice, fufpected none; but while the power of his friends over him feemed to have no limits, and really had none, in refpe&t to thofe things whichbilities could furmount. The event has were of a nature to be yielded, no man, not the Roman Cato himfelf, was more inflexible on every point that touched, or only feemed to touch, integrity and honour. With him, it was not enough to be infufpered, his bofem would have glow, ed like a furnace at its own whispers of reproach. Mere purity would have feem

Confusion heard his voice and wild uproar
Stood ruled-

Indeed, in organizing the Federal gov ernment in 1789, every man of either fense or candour will allow, the diffi culties feemed greater than the first rate a

fhewn that his abilities are greater than thofe difficulties. He furmounted them, and Washington's adminiftration was the moft wife and beneficient, the most profperous, and ought to be the most popular that ever was entrusted with the affairs of a nation. Great as was Walhington's merit, much of it in plan, much in exe.

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