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Thackeray sympathised with Disraeli’s characterisation of Peel’s Conservative Party, ‘which conserves nothing, which proposes nothing, which resists nothing, which believes nothing’, but disputed the suggestion that a new generation could
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“As William Plumer of New Hampshire complained, “It is impossible to censure measures without condemning men.”
― Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
― Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
“Hamilton used the sinking fund to maintain the confidence of creditors in the government’s securities; he had no intention of paying off the outstanding principal of the debt. Retiring the debt would only destroy its usefulness as money and as a means of attaching investors to the federal government.”
― Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
― Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
“Consequently, as Samuel Chase pointed out in the Maryland ratifying convention, the states would end up “without power, or respect and despised—they will sink into nothing, and be absorbed in the general government.” Some Federalists actually hoped for this to happen—for the states eventually to be reduced to mere administrative units of the national government.”
― Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
― Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
“There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment”
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“General Harmar led a force of some three hundred regulars and twelve hundred militia northward from Fort Washington (present-day Cincinnati) to attack Indian villages in the area of what is now Fort Wayne. Although the Americans burned Miami and Shawnee villages and killed two hundred Indians, they lost an equal number of men and were forced to retreat. This show of force by the United States had proved embarrassing, and the administration was determined not to rely on militia to the same extent again.”
― Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
― Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
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