2022-07 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/16/2022
A complete and authentic issue of the Gentleman’s Magazine, March 1805, 104pp., disbound, VG. From an interior page and running 1-1/4 pages, “An Oration commemoritive of the late Major General, Alexander Hamilton ... by J.M. Mason, DD., Paster First reform Church in the City of New york ...” In part, “The Doctor styles Gen. Washington ‘Father of the Country and Gen. Hamilton her eldest son’ ... His ideas of government which should elevate the character, preserve the unity, perpetuate the liberties of America ... His judgement preponderated in placing Washijngton as the first Magistrate, and he in return committed Hamilton to the province of finance ... ‘Fathers! Friends! Countrymen! The loss of distinguished men is at all times a calamity. But the loss of such a man at such a time in the very meridian of his usefullness is singularly portentious! When Washington was taken, Hamilton was left. But Hamilton is taken and we have no more Washington. ... Washington and Hamilton in five years!’ ... The grave of Hamilton speaks. ... he fell victim not to disease, nor accident, not to the fortuns of war, ... but, to a custom which has no origin, no aliment but deparvity, no reason but in madness ....”
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