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Politics : 2000:The Make-or-Break Election -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scarecrow who wrote (332)	7/17/2000 3:49:02 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1013

Yes, Hamilton did indeed betray the American revolution. Thomas Jefferson himself appointed Albert Gallatin as Secretary of the Treasury because he admired Gallatin's distrust of the federalists and their propensity for spending (even then!). In point of fact, some of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence asserted that federalism, and Alexander Hamilton, betrayed the American Revolution. During the Whiskey Rebellion (which was brought to an end peacefully largely through the oratory skill of Gallatin, who later confided he regretted stopping it), many of the American Rebels seeking to end federalism and the taxes the newly restructured American government was beginning to impose, also roundly condemned Hamilton as a traitor to the American Revolution. FT