((Bonus points to people who can find the Aaron Burr)
Eliza Hamilton remembered the sleepless night when her husband gave immortal expression to a durable principle of constitutional law. As an ancient lady garbed in widow’s weeds, she told the story to a young man who recorded it this way in his journal:
‘Old Mrs. Hamilton…active in body, clear in mind…talks familiarly of Washington, Jefferson, and the fathers. I told her how greatly I was interested…on account of her husband’s connection with the government. “He made your government,“ said she. “He made your bank. I sat up all night to help him do it. Jefferson thought we ought not to have a bank and President Washington thought so. But my husband said, “We must have a Bank.” I sat up all night, copied out his writing, and the next morning he carried it to President Washington and we had a bank.“
im glad social media didn’t exist in the 18th century cause alexander hamilton would have come up with some shit like thomas jefferson is Jack the Ripper
What do you, mean, there’s so much rich stuff from 18th century newspapers, where politicians and muckrakers didn’t even pay lip service to being “fair and balanced”. One often used was calling someone an infidel, an agent of Satan, or the Antichrist (Jefferson got that a lot). Another was going through the stock assholes of ancient Greece or Rome, like when James Callender said in his History of the United States:
The maxims and wishes of Mr. Hamilton exceed any sentiment recorded from the hemp-crack-governor of the Netherlands. They rather approach to the comprehensive sublimity of Caligula.
Or, my personal favorite, someone might just say their opponent was dead, and it would take months to correct that sort of thing.
“kids today with their smartphones and sexting and naked pictures are so irresponsible!!!” well in the 1820′s the Emperor of Brazil D. Pedro I sent letters to his lover calling himself “big devil” and “fiery little fire” containing drawings of his own dick and actual pubic hair and now that’s historical document so
Sometimes I worry maybe I’m the friend that no one likes but they all think everyone else likes me, so they all hide it, but then someone confesses they hate me, and everyone else agrees, and they team up to all stab me in the back 23 times at the Senate on the Ides of March
i have found that this is a perfectly valid concern
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