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— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 7, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsIn 1800s Virginia, a bad system of agriculture and the force of habit prevented material improvement. Wealth was measured in land and African slaves. The land was poor and the slaves were wretched. pic.twitter.com/IFnZtOmwBq
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 7, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsGeorge Washington wouldn’t induce anybody to live in the southernmost states. Travelers observed the diverse culture of North Carolina with curiosity. pic.twitter.com/wqmcLFm5e1
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 7, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js“Not for love of ease did men plunge into the wilderness.” —Henry Adams pic.twitter.com/Ip1XaWJcnn
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 7, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsPresident Washington’s popularity was impaired by Jeffersonians who thought America wouldn’t need roads, bridges, canals, ships, or manufactures and were opposed to the creation of financial infrastructure for the purpose of investing in them. pic.twitter.com/rpLtYC0Htn
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 8, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js“The democrat had no caste; he was not respectable; he was a Jacobin,—and no such character was admitted into a Federalist house. Every dissolute intriguer, loose-liver, forger, false-coiner, and prison-bird; every hair-brained, loud-talking demagogue; every speculator, scoffer,…
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 12, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js“[Jefferson] had avowed preference for a profession of ignorance rather than a belief in error. He had said, ‘It does me no injury for my neighbors to say there are twenty gods, or no god.’ … He was notoriously a deist; he probably ridiculed the doctrine of total depravity; and…
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 12, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js“I would not be understood to insinuate that men void of religious principle; and even contemners of religious duties, may not have an attachment to their country, and a desire for its civil and political prosperity and glory; nay, they may expose themselves to great dangers, and…
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 12, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsFischer Ames: “Our days are made heavy with the pressure of anxiety, and our nights restless with visions of horrour. We listen to the clank of chains, and overhear the whispers of assassins. We mark the barbarous dissonance of mingled rage and triumph in the yell of an…
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 12, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsCabot to Pickering, 1804
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 13, 2023
“I hold democracy in its natural operation to be the government of the worst.” https://t.co/zip3e9ZyWP pic.twitter.com/Kiv3pOPscG
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsDennie wrote, in 1803, a scathing attack on Jeffersonian democracy, for which he was brought up on charges of seditious libel. Dennie wrote, in part:
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 13, 2023
“A democracy is scarcely tolerable at any period of national history. Its omens are always sinister, and its powers are…
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsEarly American poets https://t.co/8MhCibH1Qy
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 13, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js“the prospects of our Country are not brilliant. The mass is far from sound. At headquarters a most visionary theory presides. Depend upon it, this is the fact to a great extreme. No army, no navy, no active commerce—national defence, not by arms but by embargoes, prohibition of…
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 15, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsIn reference to the mass of democracy advocates, Hamilton borrowed a line from Virgil’s description of the cyclops in The Aeneid:
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 15, 2023
“monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum;”
“a dreadful monster, shapeless, huge, blind.”
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 16, 2023https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js“The vain, the timid, and trimming must be made by examples to see that scorn smites, and blasts, and withers like lightning the knaves that mislead them. Then let the misled many come off and leave the party if they will ; if not, let them club it with them for the infamy.”… pic.twitter.com/jq3Jj6tMai
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 16, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js“Unluckily however for us in the competition for the passions of the people our opponents have great advantages over us; for the plain reason, that the vicious are far more active than the good passions, and that to win the latter to our side we must renounce our principles & our…
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 16, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js“Democrats claimed a right to slander opponents because they were monarchists and aristocrats, while Federalists thought themselves bound to smite and wither with scorn those who, as a class, did not respect established customs.” —Henry Adams
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 17, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js“To escape the tyranny of Caesar by perpetuating the simple and isolated lives of their fathers was the sum of their political philosophy.” pic.twitter.com/JvKh0VsRnR
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 20, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsThe Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions were political statements which took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional.
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 25, 2023
In doing so, they argued for states' rights and strict construction of the Constitution.https://t.co/C4gAHXi3Ij
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsThe Alien and Sedition Acts were supported by Federalists to strengthen national security against revolutionary France.
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 25, 2023
The acts were denounced by Jeffersonians as suppression of voters and violation of free speech under the First Amendment.https://t.co/Wu20l2avr9
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsHere’s Jefferson saying that the President of the United States having the power to deport hostile alien interlopers is cause for Kentucky and Virginia to revolt against the Union.
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 25, 2023
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https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsHenry Adams: “The science of politics, if limited by the Resolutions of Virginia and Kentucky, must degenerate into an enumeration of powers reserved from exercise. Thought could find little room for free development where it confined its action to narrowing its own field… By…
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 27, 2023
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https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js“I fear, from the experience of the last 25 years that morals do not, of necessity, advance hand in hand with the sciences.”
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 27, 2023
Thomas Jefferson on learning that the liberal conception of human nature upon which he based his political philosophy was wrong https://t.co/3LecDZ5UeN
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsThomas Jefferson in Notes on the State of Virginia:
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 27, 2023
“It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsJohn Marshall: “His foreign prejudices seem to me totally to unfit him for the chief magistracy of a nation which cannot indulge those prejudices without sustaining debt & permanent injury. In addition to this solid & immovable objection Mr. Jefferson appears to me to be a man…
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 27, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsHenry Adams: “Far from accepting with ‘absolute acquiescence’ the decisions of the majority, Jefferson and his followers held that freedom could be maintained only by preserving inviolate the right of every State to judge for itself what was, and what was not, lawful for a…
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 27, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsJefferson on his inauguration: “The revolution of 1800 … was as real a revolution in the principles of our government as that of ‘76 was in its form.” https://t.co/PfQcnT9FBx pic.twitter.com/yeN37M7K18
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 27, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsHenry Adams: “The republic which Jefferson believed himself to be founding or securing in 1801 was an enlarged Virginia.”
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 28, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsJefferson: “beleiving, as I do, that the mass of the citizens is the safest depository of their own rights, & especially that the evils flowing from the duperies of the people are less injurious than those from the egoism of their agents, I am a friend to that composition of…
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 28, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsHenry Adams: “The navy is wholly Federalist in tendencies and composition. The Republican party had always denounced this Federalist creation; and that a navy caused more dangers than it prevented or corrected, was one of the deepest convictions that underlay the policy of…
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 28, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsJefferson in 1824: “the Federal is, in truth, our foreign government which department alone is taken from the sovereignty of the separate states.” https://t.co/U9Fz4sfvEl
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 28, 2023
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https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsIn his old age, Jefferson loved to put forward the claim that he had made a revolution in the principles of the government.
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 29, 2023
The country was at the mercy of any Power which might choose to rob it. pic.twitter.com/x2AE9Vh9B3
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsHamilton in 1801: “That Jefferson has manifested a culpable predilection for France is certainly true; but I think it a question whether it did not proceed quite as much from her popularity among us, as from sentiment, and in proportion as that popularity is diminished his zeal…
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 30, 2023
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— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 31, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js“The New England church was the chief obstacle to democratic success.”
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) August 31, 2023
“Jefferson took New England to be like Virginia,—ruled by a petty oligarchy which had no sympathies with the people, and whose artificial power, once broken, would vanish like that of the Virginia church.” pic.twitter.com/ZNjqtel8qU
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsConvention of 1800 https://t.co/qIIocQOIsD
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) September 1, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsBattle of Copenhagen (1801)https://t.co/jXfdjNkzlk
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) September 2, 2023
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsin the quiet of their plantations, the creoles of Saint-Domingue talked of independence and thought with envy of their neighbors in South Carolina
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) September 2, 2023
1791
swept with fire and drenched with blood. Five hundred thousand n*gro slaves in the depths of barbarism revolted pic.twitter.com/2DAq0mDuif
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsIn 1802, Thomas Jefferson learned that France and the US have different interests https://t.co/24FwlQxQd9 pic.twitter.com/TlcVOwoBlr
— Book Cat 🇺🇸 (@Hamiltonianist) September 7, 2023
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