102

Autographs/H: (ALEXANDER HAMILTON). "An Oration Commemorative of the Late Major-General Alexander H

Currency:USD Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:150.00 - 200.00 USD
Autographs/H: (ALEXANDER HAMILTON).   An Oration Commemorative of the Late Major-General Alexander H
(ALEXANDER HAMILTON). "An Oration Commemorative of the Late Major-General Alexander Hamilton" delivered before the New York State Society of the Cincinnati by J.M. Mason, D.D., Pastor of the First Associate Reformed Church in New York, July 31, 1804, 40 pages, 9" x 5.5", Very Good. The minister laments," When Washington was taken, Hamilton was left--but Hamilton is taken, and we have no Washington. We have no such another man to die!...(H)e fell a victim, not to disease nor accident; not to the fortune of glorious warfare; but...to a custom which has no origin but superstition, no ailment but depravity, no reason but in madness... ah! what avails it to a distracted nation that Hamilton was murdered for a punctilio of honour?...Hamilton! we will cherish thy memory, we will embalm thy fame! Fare thee well, thou unparalleled man, farewell--for ever!" Exalted language. Bound by string, with an aged appearance and with staining throughout. Somewhat ragged around the edges; title page is torn, affecting "e" in "the"; the oration, however, is entirely legible.