JEFFERSON AND HAMILTON

The Struggle for Democracy
In America
BY
CLAUDE G. BOWERS
AUTHOR OF ‘THE PARTY BATTLES OF THE JACKSON PERIOD’
With Illustrations

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY CLAUDE G. BOWERS
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
TENTH IMPRESSION, JANUARY, 1927
The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.

PREFACE

All American history has since run along the lines marked out by the antagonism of Jefferson and Hamilton. Our history is sometimes charged with a lack of picturesqueness because it does not deal with the belted knight and the moated grange. But to one who considers the moral import of events, it is hard to see how anything can be more picturesque than the spectacle of these two giant antagonists contending for political measures which were so profoundly to affect the lives of millions of human beings yet unborn.