Good heavens, JRandomFreeper....
While I don’t hate Burr, the prospect that the loss of Hamilton was a crippling blow is outrageous.
I believe that Hamilton was right about Burr — that he was not a bad man, as such, and not a traitor — but that the fact of him, of his type, as a politician without principle, was indeed a horrible and unamerican concept for the time. Hamilton was right to oppose a political chameleon.
Hamilton was one of America’s indispensible men — a critically important founder, without whom we might well have collapsed in our infancy, if not during the revolution, then certainly soon afterward. His contributions were crucial to our survival.
JFD
Burr was a scumbag, but he was a politican (I repeat myself), and he had little power or effective use of it. Hamilton, on the other hand, was a person for whom I could have no respect.
Sorta like Newt.
His break with Gen Washington, his effete and self-serving country-club mentality, and especially, his economic foundation that created the monster that we live with today lead me to believe that Hamilton should have stayed in Nevis, and never come to the colonies.
/johnny