"Oh it could amount to double assault for double tragedy!"
"Meaning?"
He had just administered a stern rebuke to Chase in print and that was one possible reason to refrain from pouring diatribes on Lee too in print "
"Deny him public washing of dirty linen right?"
"Samuel Chase an outspoken Maryland Congressman and one of the ratifiers and signer of the declaration of independence and a supreme court justice!"
"Oh spare me all that rubbish ,does not mind taking anybody to the cleaners as he once did with high and mighty bloods."
"His semblance like Samuel Johnson have him the moniker "Bacon face" and very overbearing protuberance and careers riddled with controversies."
"Which of the controversies?"
"Under the pen name "Publius"published anonymous diatribes against chase .He had noticed the flour price under demand of the newly arrived french was more than doubled and blamed Chase for information leakage "
"Which leakage?"
"The knowledge of secret Congressional plan was leaked"
"And the secret?"
"The plan to buy up the flour for the french to his associates.These guys later cornered the market and to expose him Hamilton resumed correspondence and acquaintance with New York Journal publisher John Holt ."
"But during the British occupation of new York he now print from Poughkeepsie right?"
"Exactly.He uses his pen name a lifelong favorite 'Publius'.Now between October and November 1778 he castigated him in three long letters in Holt's paper.Chase hardly know the author was an adjutant to Washington and due to these essays or polemics he was portrayed as uncritical exponent of non-capitalistic humanitarian enterprise and belie his caricature "as a reflexive apologist for business" and uncritical exponent of the profit motive."He first pointed the punishment inflicted on traitors who betrayed patriotic cause then afterwards noted the bestial conduct of another depravity that "the conduct of another class equally criminal and if possible more mischievous has hitherto passed with that impunity..........I mean that tribe who .........have carried the spirit of monopoly and extortion to an excess which scarcely admits of a parallel.When avarice takes the lead in a state it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.How shocking is it to discover among ourselves even at this early period the strongest symptoms of this fatal disease?"
In the same letter he ridiculed traitors of the state and how greed can corrupt a state and any public official that betrays public trust should be detested"to feel the utmost rigor of public resentment and be detested as a traitor of the worst and most dangerous kind".He pour him calumny in the second letter when he says "It is your lot to have the peculiar privilege of being universally despised."But in the third letter he envisioned the posterity of robust confederation beyond the then struggling stance when he says"The station of a member of Congress is the most illustrious and important of any i am able to conceive.He is to regarded not only as a legislator but as the founder of an empire."
Even in the fall of 1778 he mused something similar of America's future greatness for the struggle with the British had crossed the Atlantic in the utmost vile of sweeping conflict.Now Spain had joined the colonial side in the aftermath of its inability to regain control of Gibraltar from England . France was reeling in anger after loosing the indian and the French war that goes beyond ideological solidarity with Americans decided to fight war against Britain.The ferocious anger to seek better access to Carribean sugar islands and north American ports also drove her crazy down to the edge of the pricipice."
"That access was the most strategic interest and singlehandedly made great Britain the world first industrialized economy and the founder of industrial revolution and by large pioneer of mordern civilisation."
"Exactly!So Hamilton was right to have learned this early lesson in real politics or practical politics that nation's follow their interest not sympathies.
"So he was instrumental in bringing French army to America?"
"Nicholas Fish sparks this outrage how he prodded Lafayette to advocate the entry of French army into American soil.Then in the July 1788 Admiral Jean Baptiste d'Estaing landed with his fleet and played on Lafayette 's vanity towards the french ground force and touted Lafayette as commander of french Force.He became a frequent emissary to the french and often interpreter of the french to Washington plus his impeccable translation of french into high profile diplomatic correspondence increase his checkered pedigree with the continental army.His phenomenal reputation increased his profound influence with the french radicals .From the sterling grace of J.P.Brissot de Warwille who praised him"as firm and decided,frank and martial" also named him as honourary member of the french national assembly to Marquis de Chastellux that poured encomium for being wiser than his age and justified the respect Washington reposed in him down to duc de La Rochefoucauld -Lliancourt noted he was more dignified,decisive, delightful,sweet and infinitely agreeable show the depth of french applause accorded to his rising pedigree.
He also had to endure silent insults from them specifically the vainglorious french aristocrats who considered many of the continental army as inferior to them and branded them incompetent.Yet he saw that these french volunteers were ordinary minds with ordinary talents and skills in the military "and yet most of them were so conceited as to suppose themselves Caesars or Hannibals in comparison with the American officers."
Still he could not deny the fact that "their friendship is the pillar of our security ". Imagine same folks he had regarded as royal nuisance but barely denied decisive nature of their timely intervention and drafted so many letters to the congress requested promotions for undeserving french men .He railed more against preferential treatment of the french aristocrats more than any folks in the united states .He was so ardent at this prejudice that rivals in return branded him aristocrat .
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