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AMES, Fisher (1758-1808), Federalist Congressman. Autograph letter signed to unidentified (Christopher Gore?), Philadelphia, 24 February 1795. 4 pages, 4to, remnants of tipping along left edge.
HAMILTON'S FUNDING SYSTEM, THE "MOBOCRATS," TOM PAINE AND THE "FRENCH MANIA" A great political letter from one of the most lively and combative Federalists, mentioning Hamilton, Monroe, Tom Paine, the Jeffersonian "mobocrats" and the "French mania": "The bill for reduction of the public debt has passed the House. It pins fast the funding system, converts the poison of faction into food for Federalism; it puts out of the reach of future mobocrats the funds & their control of them. It is therefore the Finale, the crown of federal measures." He mentions Hamilton's retirement, a political essay by Monroe that will "tomorrow be in Fenno" and makes a sarcastic reference to Paine's Age of Reason: "Tom Paine has kindly cured our clergy of their prejudices." Referring to the storm over Jay's Treaty and the Jeffersonian enthusiasm for the French Revolution, he writes: "No treaty yet arrived. The Senate will be specially called to ratify or not. No French treaty is here spoken of. Are not their resources on the decline...The French mania is in the train of being cured..." An excellent, gossipy, pungent political letter from the tumultuous first decade of the Republic.
HAMILTON'S FUNDING SYSTEM, THE "MOBOCRATS," TOM PAINE AND THE "FRENCH MANIA" A great political letter from one of the most lively and combative Federalists, mentioning Hamilton, Monroe, Tom Paine, the Jeffersonian "mobocrats" and the "French mania": "The bill for reduction of the public debt has passed the House. It pins fast the funding system, converts the poison of faction into food for Federalism; it puts out of the reach of future mobocrats the funds & their control of them. It is therefore the Finale, the crown of federal measures." He mentions Hamilton's retirement, a political essay by Monroe that will "tomorrow be in Fenno" and makes a sarcastic reference to Paine's Age of Reason: "Tom Paine has kindly cured our clergy of their prejudices." Referring to the storm over Jay's Treaty and the Jeffersonian enthusiasm for the French Revolution, he writes: "No treaty yet arrived. The Senate will be specially called to ratify or not. No French treaty is here spoken of. Are not their resources on the decline...The French mania is in the train of being cured..." An excellent, gossipy, pungent political letter from the tumultuous first decade of the Republic.