This letter, it was a matter of National Honor. American treatment of loyalists after the war would say a lot about the character of the new nation and hamilton wanted the nation to start off on the right foot. So hamilton was thinking about National Honor almost from the launching of the new nations, but he really concerned himself with the preservation of National Honor when he became the nations first secretary of the treasury in 1789. Hamilton was the man responsible for dealing with the new nations enormous disorganized war debts so essentially he was responsible for establishing national credit. Now hamiltons concern makes sense if you think about the meaning of the word credit. The formal focus of hamiltons job. Credit is essentially honor in another form. Credit, a person with credit is trustworthy. A person with credit has a reliable and upstanding character. A nations credit represents all of those things as well as its standing in the eyes of the world, a nations reputation.
Least 17 other, many interrelated. So for example it wasnt a lone duel in and of itself but part of a larger trend. And when you look at all these political duels together you notice really interesting patterns. Most of them took place shortly after an election. And there were deliberately provoked. And a common ploy was one man would call another a selfinterested politician. And there is only one response to that sort of insult, which is you are a liar. And poof, you have a duel. It was very effective way of provoking. And many most cases the loser of an election would provoke the win ore are one of his friends into the duel. And what wore talking about here when looking at these duels. They were deliberately provoked and strategically timed. In other words Many American political duels were kind of like counter elections. Someone dishonored by an election, by losing an election tried to redeem his reputation by an aristocratic contest of hon e a duel. In essence american political du
The war. It was what they experienced. Marshal was a virginian. He was a bit of a backwoods virginian, but he fought in a number of the battles in new jersey. But he became part of something that was a lot bigger than virginia. And he got to know people from many different states, many different backgrounds, and it changed, it changed him and he began to think of the United States as his country. Not virginia. And he became to think of the government as the government of the United States, not the government of virginia. And of course, this gets revisited in the american civil war. This is exactly whats happening. The secession begins. These states are asserting the rights that they retained when they voluntarily became a part of the federal union. The view of lincoln was thats not true. You cant leave. Youre in it, you stay in it. But its primarily over the belief of the Southern States that they were the primary unit. They had given certain things to the federal government, but they
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