More than three-score years and ten have passed since Alexander Hamilton died. Men then thought and spoke of his death as untimely for himself and his country. History will give no such judgment. For himself, for his peace of mind and the simple grandeur of his fame, the time of his death must be esteemed fortunate; for the Republic, now as we look back upon the course of events, the sacrifice appears to have been desirable. He was not doomed to outlive his usefulness ;nor to live into those days when doctrines which he feared and opposed, and when personal solicitation for office, were to gain ascendency in the administration of the government. Nor was his heart to be embittered, as many others have been, by ephemeral contentions, in which the honors of his pitched and decisive battles might be dimmed and degraded. He had laid the foundation, broad Jefferson and Madison were brought forward by caucus nominations The first year 1821 of Mr.
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