Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary by Martha Brockenbrough

Author:Martha Brockenbrough
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Published: 2017-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

AEDANUS BURKE ACCUSED ALEXANDER OF MAKING A CRUEL ATTACK ON SOUTHERN SOLDIERS.

That word choice was provocative. More letters were exchanged in accordance with the rules for affairs of honor. Resolving the matter without bloodshed required intervention from several congressmen. And in it, Alexander revealed his fatal flaw: a willingness to throw away everything he had—his wife, his home, his children, his ascending career, and even his own life—for the sake of his reputation.

He wasn’t just tempting death. He was actively inviting it to visit. It was romantic. It was daring. But it did nothing to solve the pressing problem at hand: how to get support for a federal assumption of the states’ debt.

Not far from Alexander’s residence at 57 Wall Street, Thomas Jefferson had rented a home of his own once he’d returned from Paris to become secretary of state. Accompanied by his enslaved chef, James Hemings, who’d had culinary training in Paris, Jefferson had moved to New York in March 1790, after Alexander’s initial report was delivered. Like Madison, Jefferson hated it and the idea of assumption. But this issue wasn’t the only big one stalled in Congress. The other: where the federal government should have its permanent home.

ALEXANDER LOOKED “SOMBRE, HAGGARD, AND DEJECTED BEYOND COMPARISON.”

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