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5 Pol. Sci. Q. 1 (1890)

handle is hein.journals/pclscceqry5 and id is 1 raw text is: March, i89o. POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY. ALEXANDER HAMILTON. ONE cannot note, writes Professor Bryce, the disap- pearance of this brilliant figure, to Europeans the most interesting in the early history of the Republic, without the remark that his countrymen seem to have never, either in his lifetime or afterwards, duly recognized his splendid gifts.I Our failure to do justice to Hamilton is undeniable; and it is all the more conspicuous and deplorable because it relates not alone to his gifts, but also, and in an even higher degree, to his services. Of this fact the traditional ingratitude of republics is not a satisfying explanation. From Washington to Lincoln there are many names which prove that the American people can properly appreciate those who serve them. They have not done so in the case of Hamilton, because, in respect to matters of prime importance, he misunderstood them, and they in turn misunderstood and disagreed with him. But peoples, like indi- viduals, feel gratitude towards those benefactors only whom they both understand and approve. The origin and in part the consequences of this misunderstanding and disagreement can be made clear by a brief review of Hamilton's political work. The public life of Hamilton began in 1774. He was then a student at King's, now Columbia, College. On July sixth of that year he made an extempore address at a meeting of patriots. In the following December appeared the first of his political writings, -a pamphlet in reply to Tory criticism upon the Continental Congress; it was entitled A Full Vindication. A few weeks later a second and longer pamphlet was published I American Commonwealth, I, 641. Volume V.] [Number i.

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