Show STORY OY RUE BY installment 23 A chain had been across ha a street in front of the tha house where the nolay noisy traffic that ie e lay to check night ight havo have disturbed him OTOTO more deep y in his favor but the government iad td not stood still tho the while ile he had beadily attended to important matters maters as he be could scarcely nee ersary he should be out of bed and abroad again to make all who handled brindled affairs feel hla his ma mastery and by the time ime the summer was ended that mas inas tery ery was founded upon knowledge the first cabinet hy the end of september 1789 toneless ton eress had completed its work ot of organization organisation and washington bad drawn rawn his permanent advisers about abou t lilau the federal v co court u arts 8 00 oo had been loen erected and given definitive jurisdiction ris rie diction the new government had taken distinct shape and was ready to digest its business in detail washington chose alexander hamilton to be secretary of the treasury henry knox to be secretary of war thomas jefferson secretary of state and abd edmund Rat randolph Adolph attorney gentril gen trul young men all except jefferson and ho he was but forty six the fate of the government was to turn first of all upon questions of finance it was waa hopeless leov poverty that had brought the confederation into deep disgrace the now new government had inherited from it nothing but a great debt and the tha first test of character to which the new plan in affairs would be put at home or abroad was them the test teat of ito it ability to su cubala cuB aln its financial credit with businesslike thoroughness and statesmanlike wisdom hamiltons post alexander hamilton was only thirty two year sold ha had been a spirited end and capable soldier and an assuta astuto and eloquent advocate but lie had not had ti a days experience in the administration of a great governmental depart client 1 lent and ha had d never handled so far ao an men linow knew had never studied questions of public finance washington chose him nevertheless without hesitation for what must certainly turn out the most critical post in ili his administration no man saw more clearly than washington did how largo large a rapacity for statesmanship hamilton had shown in his masterly papers in advocacy ado cacy of tiie tha constitution ile he had known hamilton moreover through ill all the quick years that had brought t him from precocious youth south to wise maturity bad rend read his bis ir letters aters lind felt the singular lar power that moved moed in them and was ready to trust him blin with whatever task he would consent to assume henry knox that gallant officer of the revolution had been already four years secretary of war for the confederation era Pra tion in appointing him to tho the same office under the new constitution washington was waa but retaining a man whom he loved and to A horn he had for long been accustomed to took look for friendship and can counsel set jeffersons wide experience ile he chise thomas jefferson to handle the delicate questions 0 of o foreign affairs wh ich must press pres apon upon the young state because be caup john adams being vice there was no other man of equal gifts available who had had so lurge an experience in the cieli of dl di plo rumney rum pincy ncy again and again jefferson had been chosen for foreign missions under the confederation he ha was antrican minister to france when summons called him to the alo of state and he erme of that race of virginin virginia statesmen from whom washington might ri roton von ably count upon receiving a sup inri I ort touched with personal pera onal loyalty kichard henry lee patrick henry anil marie geprge mason were home sri rUa andean and dan donated bad of dt tho the success af pf of aw new government but jefferson though lie he had looked upon its making atom across the sea approved and was w ia ready to lend his aid to its successful establishment in appointing edmund randolph to I 1 attorney general washington was ait t it choosing a brilliant young man whom he loved out of a great family faintly of lawyers who had bad held a sort of I 1 primacy at the in virginia ever rince lince he could remember almost ever rince tance she had been called the old dominion in I 1 n I 1 n knox was thirty birty nine edmund randolph thirty six but if washington chose young men to be his bis comrades and in counsel it was but another capital proof of his own mastery in afT affairs aIrs himself a natural leader he ha recognized the like gift and capacity in others even when fortune had bad not yet disclosed or brought them to the tha test hard to fill offices it was h hard ard in filling ailing even tho the greater of flees to find men of eminence were willing to leave the service of their st staica atrit of or the security and ease 1 of private life to try tho the un paths of federal government the sti ites were old and ne secure ure so BO men thought ohp th federal government was new and in experiment the str stronger auger rort fort of f men particularly amongst thomp bred to the law showed many of nf t tie 1 rna TO a great reluctance anco to identify htwa rt wa willi new set ser art ar r t alt M rr fix alx lx months ago and wash tf ili v h he be meant to make very liberal allowance for differences ot of opinion would invite noaman no trian to stand with him in the now new service who did not thoroughly believe in it lie he was careful to seek out six of at the best beat lawyers to bo be had euid tu lu the country when he made up the tha su bu brome court and to choose them ft from its ma many ny states john jay of new york to be chief justice john rutledge of south carolina william dishing cushing of massachusetts john blair of virginia james jamee wilson of pennsylvania a vania and R 11 harrlson harrison of maryland for lie he knew chat that the government must draw its strength from the men who ho administered it and that the common run oi of people must learn to respect it in the persons persona os CA its oft leera cers dut but he was equally careful to find out in advance of every appointment what the man whom he be wished to ask thought of the new government and wished its future to be I 1 many to whom be offered appointment declined minor offices seemed most to go begging a amongst men of assured position such as it was his object to secure it needed all the tact and patience he could command to draw about him a body of men such auch as aa the country must look up ul to and revere his letters lettera agath again went abroad by the hundred and as aa so eo often before to persuade men to their duty build a bulwark of right opinion round about tho the govern government merit make hlo hla purposes clear and his plans plana effective lie ile would spare no pains to kakta the government both great and permanent tours eastern states stater in october 1789 tits hla principal appointments point ments a all 11 made mada the government in full operation and affairs standing still till congress should meet again lie he went a tour four weeks tour of the eastern states to aut put taho 0 people in ili mind there by hla his own presence of the existence and dignity of the federal government and to malle make trial of their feeling toward it they received him with cordial enthusiasm for lie he was secure of their love and admiration mi ration and lie ho bad once moro more it a royal progress from place to place all the way to far noy new hampshire and back again he studiously connived con rived to mako make it everywhere felt nevertheless by evory every turn of ce ceremonial and behavior that he had come not as the hero of the revolution but as tho the president of the united states at boston Gov governo ernoe hancock ancock II sought by cordea dote slid and plean pleak of illness to force washington to waive the courtesy ot of a first call from him anil and po so give the executive of massachusetts chu setto precedence it only for old friendships sake but Wash washington lugton would not be so defeated of hla his er ra rand pd nd forced the perturbed old patriot to cocome come to him swathed as aa he was in flannels and borne upon mens shoulders up the stairs received him with grim courtesy and satisfied the gossips sips ot of the town once and for all that precedence belonged to the federal government at any rate so long as george washington was president dept Having seen him and feted him the eastern towns had seen and done homage to the new authority set over them Washing torf was satisfied and returned d with a poti noticeable ceable accession of spirits to tho the serious work of federal administration hamilton his support no man stood closer to him in his purpose to strengthen and give prestige to the government than hamilton and no roan man was able to discover the mean beani with it a surer genius hamilton knew who the well wishers ot of the new government were whence its strength was to be drawn what it must do to approve itself great and permanent with an insight and thoroughness ough ness washington himself could not match for hamilton know washington and the seats ot of hla his strength in the country as aa that self belt forgetful man himself could not he knew that it was waa the commercial classes of the country such men as he had himself dwelt amongst at the great port at new york who were bound by self interest to the new government ein ern ment which promised them a single policy in trade in n the stend stead of policies a half balf score and that the men who were standing to its support out of a reasoned prudence dence out of a high minded desire to secure good government and a place of consideration for their country amongst the nations of at the world bere iere were individuals merely to be found only in ill small groups here and there where a special light L lione fhone in some minds I 1 ile he knew that washington was trao loved most for tits his national character and purpose amongst the observant middle classes of substantial people in the richer counties count lea of Perin pennsylva sylva new jersey ne new york and new england while his neighbors in the south loves loved bilm with anlin affection only and rather as aa their hero beio than as their leader in affairs he saw that oe fe surest way to get both popular support and international respect was to give to tho the government at once and in the outset a place of at command in the business and material interests teresta In of the country such a policy every man could comprehend and a great body of energetic and in men would ceri certainly allily support tsat that alone could matee make the tha gov government emment peem real from ahr th arst a veritable power not an influence and a shadow merely here was a man unquestionably who had a quick genius la in affairs and washington gave him leave and eniti active with such auch sympathy and comprehension and support aw as only a nature equally bold and equally original could have given hamiltons hamilton a measures jumped with Washing tous purpose ran with perception of national interests and they were with did aid put into execution with a promptness prompt nesa and do claton which must hare surprised the friends of 0 the new government no less leas than tt it chagrined and alarmed ita it enemies hla his plan of Finance having done its work of during its first ou bummer or session the congress came t together A her again january jannary 4 1790 to attempt the formulation of a policy of government and hamilton tit at once laid before it a plan for the settlement of the public debt which ho he had drawn and washington had sanctioned ho he proposed that provision should bo be made tor for the payment of tho the foreign debt in full that of course that the domestic debt the despised promises cna ana paper of the should bo be funded and paid and that the debts contracted by the several states in the prosecution of the war for independence should be assumed by the general gov government rn as aa the debt of the nation no one could doubt tha tilie foreign debt must be paid in full to that thai congress agreed heartily and without hesitation but there was much n the rest of th tha plan to give prudent meu pause to pay oft off the paper odthe ot tho confederation would bo be to give to the speculators who had bad bought jt it up in the hope of just such ouch a measure a gratuity of many times what they had paid tor for it to assume the state debts would be taken baken to mean that the states were bankrupt or delinquent that the federal government was to be their guardian and financial providence and that the capital of the coir country must look only to the government of the nation notto not to the government of the states tor for security and profitable employment this was nationalizing the government with a vengeance and wai was a plain bid besides to win the money class to its support Af members embers whose constituencies lay away from the centers of trade looked askance at au auca c measures and deemed them no better than handing the government over to the money lenders of the towns but boldness and energy prevailed as a they had prevailed in the adoption of the constitution itself and both measures were carried through the houses thy the first at once the second after a close and doubtful struggle by stratagem and barter part of plan opposed jefferson had been in trance when washington called him to assume the headship of foreign affairs at home had not reached now new york on his hie return voyage until december 23 1789 and did not take hla his place in council till march 21 1790 all of hamiltons great plan hod had by that time passed congress cong yesa except the fiz assumption Bump tion of the state debts upon that question a crisis had been reached it had wrought congress to a dangerous heat of feeling members from the mouths where trade was not much astir and financial interests told for less than local pride and sharp jealousy of a too great central power were set hotly against the measure most of the northern members were were as hotly resolved upon its adoption mr air jefferson must have caught echoes and rumors of the great deb debate ate as a lie he lingered qt at Al in order to adjust hs private 11 affairs afore entering upon his duties in the cabinet the measure had been lost at last in the house by tho the narrow margin of two votes but the minority were in no humor to submit they declined to transact any business buei nesa at all till they should be yielded to lo in this matter there were oven ugly threats to be heard that some would withdraw from congress arid force a dissolution of the union rather than make concessions upon ahe one side or the other jeffersons Jeffere ont support won it was to this pass that things had come whon mr jefferson reached the seat of government in and d hla his arrival gave hamilton an opportunity to show how consummate a politician he could be in support of his statesmanship the southern members wanted the spat of the federal govern government merit established within their reach upon the potomac where congress might inight at least be rid of importunate mor merchants chants and money lenders clamoring at its doore and of impracticable quakers with their petitions for the abolition of elvry and were almost algosi as hot at their failure to get their will la in that thai matter as the northern men were to lind themselves vea defeated upon the question of the rhe state debts mr jefferson was waa fresh upon the held field was strong among the southern ni members embers was waa not embroiled or committed in the quarrel hamilton besought him to intervene Int ervena the success otha gov government emment was at stake he be said end and mr jefferson cou could ild pluck it out of peril might it t not bo be that the southern tout bern men would consent ta rt yota jor pr the assumption of the |