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To: lentulusgracchus

Sorry but I don't grasp your meaning.


1,112 posted on 11/24/2004 10:16:15 AM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
Sorry but I don't grasp your meaning.

Hamilton bent every sinew for the interests of the merchant and business class in New York City. He was one of them, and every proposal he made advanced their interests, even his threat uttered for the benefit of Antifederalists upstate in Albany, that if New York didn't vote to ratify, perhaps downstate New York would secede from the rest of the state. He and John Jay -- later our first Chief Justice and every bit as great a partisan snore as Hamilton -- retailed that one for the benefit of people around Gov. George Clinton. Ratify or else!!

He was a real piece of work.

1,175 posted on 11/24/2004 7:04:03 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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