As it was, there was a convention at Hartford some years later for the ex-Federalists to discuss secession so that they could cozy up to the Brits and sell out the nation for a renewed river of money, money, money in trade with the Brits. This while we were fighting the War of 1812. Andrew Jackson with the able assistance of Pierre Lafitte dispatched the last Brit army at New Orleans and sent Brit General Pakenham's thoroughly ventilated corpse back to his widow in England, stuffed into a whiskey barrel to preserve the remains. There was never another Brit invasion of our nation.
The Federalist Party was destroyed by its own leaders' manifest greed, xenophobia, Alien and Sedition Acts, and a general attitude that the nation should be run by the upper crust who owned much of it. This was understandably never very popular with the rank and file of the public who did not own much of it. God so loved poorer people that He made a great many more of them than he did of the self-centered aristocracy. John Adams, certainly an honorable fellow in his own right, was victimized by the extreme Hamiltonian wing of the Federalists and was unable to gain re-election after the way they discredited the Federalists permanently. His relationship with Hamilton was, understandably, not much warmer than Jefferson's.
There is always a dream among the comfortable, however, that, if they could just control the government and, through the government, all those unruly and disruptive folks who wanted a share of governance at the expense of the natural self-imagined nobility of the aristocrats, they could thrive and prosper and to hell with the wogs. Such modest members of the public (the wogs) actually dared imagine that they had lives to live for their own purposes and not merely to convenience the guys in the mansion on the hill. Well, did you ever....???
After the demise of the Federalist Party, its forces re-entered politics as Whigs dedicated to (what else?) money, money, money. They called for extraconstitutional "internal improvements" federally financed to line their pockets with other people's taxed (confiscated) money. You may recall that, as a Whig, Lincoln also made a lot of money as a railroad lawyer, bringing land condemnation actions to facilitate the development of a network of railroads across Illinois. This subordinated the interests of the serfs in their own land to the grand schemes of the business moguls.
It is true that Jefferson did not disturb the financial arrangements established by Hamilton, particularly the national banking schemes. That was left to Andrew Jackson who had the noble privilege of finishing off Mr. Biddle's corrupt bank once and for all. The nation did quite nicely until the Federal Reserve was established through the chicanery of the J. P. Morgans, the Nelson Payne Aldriches and their political friends. Well, as Jefferson was fond of saying: Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Since the Whigs were perpetrating the same policies of comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted, that had destroyed their Federalist predecessors, they shared the fate of their Federalist predecessors and were destroyed. People had, after all experienced the glory that was Jackson.
Hope springs eternal, however, and the same old gang reconstituted itself sneaking around under the banner of abolitionism with financial malice aforethought, as the Republican Party (in its early days). The GOP has survived where its predecessors had failed and the Democrat Party evolved into the Demonrat Party of communist and social issue revolutionary enemies of our nation and its people (acid, amnesty, abortion, whatever perversions young Muffy and Skipper and their airhead polo club pals may adopt, disarmament, national cowardice, etc., in other words, the priorities of elitist Obamao and his elitist lapdogs).
The nation needed another Jackson and got one in Ronald Reagan. We await a worthy successor to him (and it won't be Senator Nancyboy). Thanks, Old Hickory. Thanks, Gipper. Thanks, Aaron Burr. In retrospect, the only worthwhile policy of Hamilton was protection of American industry.
Killing by crooks is as old as the nation. And Burr’s murder of Hamilton was the worst example. As you noted Burr’s background was steeped in corruption and his low character was why Washington would have nothing to do with him. Of course, he loved the incorruptible genius, Hamilton and admired his courage and patriotism. And W knew character and knew H’s was sterling having had his services throughout almost the whole Revolutionary War.
It was H’s desire to thwart the plots of secession which led to his death. Burr’s role was to win the NY governorship and split the nation but did not count on H’s brilliance. Burr never would tell H what he was being challenged for so clearly he intended to kill him no matter what. But the Democrats had already plotted in the mid-nineties to challenge H to duels until one of them killed him. Word got out about the plot so it was dropped.
Had H been available to lead US armies (at time of his death he would have been the top general) the War of 1812 might never have happened. Since his military capabilities were well known by London. But his skills at diplomacy were removed by the RAT killer. We blundered into that war and were completely unready for it.
Skillful Jeffersonian propaganda defeated the Federalists most of which was based upon nothing but lies. H was opposed to the A and S Acts in any case but the rest of the federalists were convinced that there was treasonous actions among the democrats and they were right. Only Napoleon’s defeat in Haiti kept a French army off the N. American continent. H had been warning of French power for a decade while Jefferson was cozying up to the murderous Reign of Terror.
Hamilton and the Federalists laid the cornerstone for American greatness and was fought every step of the way by the Jeffersonian frauds. Then Jefferson made the deal with H to leave the system in place and the federalists (at H’s urging) allowed him to become president. Burr did not forget.
Jefferson was far more “comfortable” than H ever was. His comfort was assured by the labor of folks he enslaved.
Jackson was a great soldier but a lunatic in just about every other area and his destruction of the Second National Bank brought on a ten year depression (the greatest until the 30s) only relieved when gold was discovered in California which inflated the money supply. Lincoln’s problems financing the Civil War would have been made much easier had there been a central bank. And the period after the War was one of tremendous instability and monetary upheaval because of a lack of central banking. It produced political movements which were major factors in national elections especially in the West, the Populists and Greenbackers.
BTW the creation of the Federal Reserve System was pushed by the “little people” the Left always speaks of, the miners, farmers and settlers of the West, and was fought against for decades by the Money Center banks in the East because it reduced their economic power. Contrary to whackO theories it was not the idea of the Big Money Boys. It took about thirty years for them to sign on.
Hamilton’s tariff policies were not particularly protectionist except for defense industries but were revenue tariffs designed to fund the government. This required good relations between the US and Britain (from which our imports came) which allowed his enemies to spread the LIE that he was Pro British. A LIE which you continue to spread. The Left hated Hamilton in 1790 and still does. But it generally hates anyone who is a 100% patriot and who devoted his whole life to making the nation great and the Union strong.