Post Treasury #2

By Bookclub

  • H being woo'd back into public life - senator, secretary of war

  • H elected one of 4 legal advisers to help defend free blacks

    when tried to be snatched of streets of NY
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    H resumes his association with Manumission

    commitments kept until H's death

  • H beseeches GW to lead the army, GW's precondition is H must join

    After Congress aurthorizes the provision army for the quasi French war
    H would join but only if given the #2 position
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    H Inspector general in the "quasi war" with France

    General Hamilton
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    3rd yellow fever epidemic - this one in NYC

  • yellow fever strikes Philly again - Fenno and Bache (Franklin's grandson) die

  • Adams yielded (grudgingly) to H's appt as inspector general

    appt only added to Adams dislike of H
    Adams could not see what others said of H that he was the most qualified man for the job

  • H meets with GW in Philly sketching out details for army

    for 5 weeks H was the master administrator
    New army and old one stationed on the western frontier were under H's command
    designs everything: huts, uniforms, military academies (5 schools), military hospitals

  • H assembled his army even with bureaucratic snags

    GW retreating more and more
    H drifting from GW
    Adams undisguised hostility toward H
    H's bad judgement showing when not working under GW (emancipate Venezuela with Miranda, evasion with Britain - s. America)

  • H advocates the S American operation more openly

  • H's name comes up with freedom for slave named Sarah - bought for the Church's

    Church's suddenly give Sarah her freedom
    strengthens the thinking H bought slaves for the Church's not himself

  • H's father dies

  • H's 7th child "Eliza"

  • GW sends letter to H applauding his outline for military academy

  • H succeed GW as president of Society of Cincinnati

  • Congress halts enlistments for the new army - H's ambitions ran out

  • Legal case - murder - Levi Weeks (The Well Tragedy)

    legal team comprised of 3 preeminent lawyers (H, Burr were 2)

  • French Revolution over - H still daydreaming about military academy

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    H and Burr actively campaign in NYC treated each other w/ impeccable courtesy

    Burr enjoyed the nitty gritty of campaigns - exhaustive toolbox of techniques

  • Levi Weeks - not guilty

  • H reviewed his troops one last time in Scotch Plains, NY

    devoted a year and half to aborted army
    H not used to failure

  • H's plans to strip Adams of presidency - Pinckney for president

    knowing Jefferson would defeat Adams, H put support behind Federalist candidate Pinckney
    however many New England supporters told H they would withhold votes for Pinckney to guarantee an Adams victory...H didn't listen
    H suddenly preferred Jefferson to Adams

  • H closed the NY headquarters and ended his military career

  • H fades from public view, but at pinnacle of legal profession

    public service declines after Jefferson in office
    but no legal fame or fortune could replace painful decline of political stature
    Now exiled from the main political arena

  • New York Evening Post - H & partners set up Coleman as editor in chief

    oldest American running newspaper
    elegant piece of workmanship
    ran all 18 installments of H's "The Examination" assailing Jefferson
    AND ran the story of Philip's duel and death

  • Philip (1st son) dies from duel

    11-20 encountered Eacker (Burr/lswyer)who said something disparaging about H in a speech 4 months earlier
    Eacker called Philip and friend "rascals" - duel language
    11-23 duel occurred - Philip threw off his shot

  • Angelica (daughter) suffers mental breakdown and never recovers

  • H's 8th child - "Philip" or "Little Phil"

    after Philip's death

  • The Grange retreat - country home north of Manhattan

    completed in summer of 1802
    orchard and vegetable gardens - obsessive gardener with instructions left for Eliza who oversaw the day to day

  • Eliza's mother dies

  • H joins Croswell's defense team

    Croswell indicted for seditious libel against Jefferson (president)

  • H had law office in dtwn Manhattan but spent most time at the Grange

    H concentrated on law and political theory rather than everyday politics

  • Dinner at home of Judge John Taylor - led to chain of events of the duel

    H had spoken of Burr as a dangerous man who could not be trusted

  • H had plans to write magnum opus on science of government

    Like the Federalist
    It would have sections assigned to 6-8 authors
    would be a survey of all history and trace the effects of government institutions.
    Topics would include morals, freedom, jurisprudence

  • Burr receives a copy of a letter recounting H's comments at dinner

    Burr flew into a rage after reading it
    Burr is still smarting from his defeat and the letter was war
    H was fair game -- famous man without power
    Duel with H would redeem Burr's honor and possibly dishonor H
    Duel was less about slurs and personal insults and more about politics and party leadership

  • H and Burr duel

  • H dies