February 2012
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“Mr. Jefferson has hitherto been distinguished as the quiet, modest, retiring...”
– Alexander Hamilton, ‘Catullus’, September 29, 1792. And Jefferson did show everyone he was a simple republican farmer. By running for president. Neither Hamilton nor Adams bought it. (via publius-report)
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“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with...”
– Thomas Jefferson (via completeculture)
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“The Great man and I have come to an open rupture. Proposals of accommodation...”
– Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, February 18, 1781. I understand Hamilton was too hypersensitive to be on the receiving end of Washington’s temper, especially after four years of working for him, but I just enjoy how he acts like a whiny bitch by trying to teach Washington a lesson. (via...
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January 2012
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“Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold the true...”
– Alexander Hamilton to James Bayard, January 16, 1801. Hamilton helps get Jefferson elected because for all of his purposed disinterestedness, with his love of fame Jefferson was predictable. (via publius-reporter)
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“For Jefferson, Hamilton was not so much an individual as an archetype of...”
– James H. Read, “Alexander Hamilton’s View of Thomas Jefferson’s Ideology and Character,” The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton. I like this description because I think it cuts to the point: Hamilton knew Jefferson would put his ambitions and desire for fame ahead of any real supposedly Jacobin...
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Anonymous asked: Why no love for John Adams?
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frostneko:
Washington, Hamilton and Jefferson go fishing.
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226th Anniversary of the Virginia Statute of...
18thcenturylove:
Drafted by Thomas Jefferson
An Act for establishing religious Freedom.
Whereas, Almighty God hath created the mind free;
That all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and therefore are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being Lord, both...
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“Old Mrs. Hamilton…active in body, clear in mind…talks familiarly of Washington,...”
– Alexander Hamilton: The National Adventure: 1788-1804. Nice passive-aggressive jab at Jefferson. (via publius-reporter)
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“[In] all my conversations with him [Jefferson] in 1824, when he spoke of the...”
– Martin Van Buren, Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States. Shrewd politician to the end, Mr. Jefferson. (via publius-reporter)
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“To a thorough disregard of the honors and emoluments of office, I join as great...”
– Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, September 9, 1792, refusing the President’s attempt to bring the olive branch to him and Hamilton in the most elitist way imaginable. (via publius-reporter)
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“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments,...”
– “The Farmer Refuted”, February 23, 1775. Hamilton sounded positively Jeffersonian before the war squashed his youthful idealism. (via publius-reporter)
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“[Jefferson] told me the affair had long been known & that Hamilton about the...”
– “‘Strict Truth’: The Narrative of William Armistead Burwell”, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 101, no. 1, in which Hamilton warns Jefferson to call off his dog lest he air his own extramarital dirty laundry. (via publius-reporter)
I would have loved to have seen this threat...
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“[Jefferson] reported to Madison in Orange County that Hamilton defended the...”
– Dumas Malone, Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty, in which Jefferson mocked Hamilton for being stoned by the Republicans in the head (where he proceeded to lose his shit and challenge the Republican party to duel). Not quite as douchey as the yellow-fever letter. (via publius-reporter)
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“In these discussions [on the affairs of France and England], Hamilton and myself...”
– Thomas Jefferson to Doctor Jones, March 5, 1810. Why is there no political cartoon of this? (via publius-reporter)
December 2011
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A death-bed Adieu. Th:J to MR.
foundingfatherfest:
Life’s visions are vanished, it’s dreams are no more. Dear friends of my bosom, why bathed in tears? I go to my fathers; I welcome the shore, which crowns all my hopes, or which buries my cares. Then farewell my dear, my lov’d daughter, Adieu! The last pang in life is in parting from you. Two Seraphs await me, long shrouded in death; I will bear them your love on my...
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vesperdomino:
The sound I just...
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“Nor is it true, that Jefferson is zealot enough to do any thing in pursuance of...”
– Alexander Hamilton on Thomas Jefferson (via foundingfatherfest)
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“Adieu My Angel love me as I do you. Yrs. for ever.”
Alexander Hamilton to Eliza Hamilton, July 28-31, 1784.
“Quit your sword, my friend, put on the toga, come to Congress. We know each others sentiments, our views are the same: we have fought side by side to make America free, let us hand in hand struggle to make her happy…Yrs for ever.”
Alexander Hamilton to John...
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“A bold and fearless rider, you saw at a glance, from his easy and confident...”
– The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson
This passage is interesting to me because it shows a bit of control-freak Jefferson. On the one hand he’s known for being gracious and mild, but on the other hand consider how he treats his horses.
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Damn. (via equitationrider)
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“I sincerely beleive that there is not one of your friends who have paid the...”
– James McHenry to Alexander Hamilton, September 4, 1800. (via publius-reporter)