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Aaron Burr, 1811
*”The French word ibranler means to shake, to disturb. Burr may have pronounced it without the L, in which case he would have approximated to the sound of ibrener, meaning to clean an infant.”
…aaron for god’s sake
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Joan Freeman, Dueling as Politics
In her notes, Freeman goes on to clarify:
“Scholars have not noticed that Hamilton’s humiliating attempt to defend the Jay Treaty and his two honor disputes were cause and effect, occurring within the space of a few hours. This oversight reveals the problem with conventional assumptions about the personal nature of dueling: neglect of a duel’s political context and implications trivializes the personal and simplifies the political, obscuring the complex, personal nature of politics in the early republic.”
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I swear, sometimes Alexander Hamilton is just…like…John Adams with pretentious to honorable heroism.
Burr was an ambitious man who concealed himself behind a polished, aristocratic demeanor, supposedly derived from his study of Lord Chesterfield’s letters to his son. He never appeared to seek office, either for its own sake or to effect some broader goal. Instead, supporters sought out Burr with offers to attach him and his abilities to their cause, which Burr then attempted to turn to his own advantage. Such recognition, Burr felt, was no more than his due, and the pattern is clearly discernible behind his rise to prominence between 1789 and 1801. These circumstances also prepared the way for his downfall insofar as his early success led Burr to neglect consolidating bases for his political power, especially in New York. Consequently, when his supporters began to abandon him, Burr rapidly became vulnerable. By 1802, he was so isolated in New York politics that during the Pamphlet War he could find no outlet in the Republican press and had to resort to a Federalist journal for his defense. Two years later, the extent of his decline could be still more graphically measured by his humiliating defeat in the New York gubernatorial election of 1804.
Considered cumulatively, the details of these events suggest that Burr’s reputation as a political manipulator can be overrated. He was not incapable of hard work and organization, but essentially he was a loner in politics and he was to pay a heavy price for his aloof arrogance.
J. C. A. Stagg, The Enigma of Aaron Burr
Burr was living in a world with other men of his standing and ambitions and did what he thought was best for himself. In this way, he is a recognizable politician to a modern reader. But it is understandable that back then he would be viewed as dangerous and self-serving.
He was, however, at the end of the day, just a man.
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At the end of the day, I respect him more for being blatant about it, as much as he ended up shooting himself in the foot because of it. All the founders were incredibly self-serving but hid their actions behind the virtuous guise of doing “for the public good”. I’d much rather someone be straightforward about their own arrogance and self-interest than pretend to be some John Q. Public just struggling to do what’s right while being just as narcissistic as the other guy.
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I disagree. The Founders could be pretty self-serving, but I’d say that the likes of Jefferson, Hamilton, Washington, and many others really did care deeply about the public good. Call out Jefferson’s hypocrisies as much as yah like, but he was serious about his vision of the country and he thought of Federalists as having a genuinely corrupt vision. Hamilton was ambitious as hell, but he threw a fit whenever he felt that anarchy was looming or greedy local politicians were putting their desire for personal power over what was best for the US as a whole. The reason politics were so volatile during this period was because it was revolutionary, and so much was on the line.
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Aaron Burr to Charles Biddle, July 19th, 1804
The term ‘calling’, in this case, refers to a challenge.
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John Adams to Abigail Adams, November 18, 1794
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JOH N STOP
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The harrowing story of one man’s struggle to defend freedom - through song.
1800: The Musical
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Richard N. Côté, Theodosia Burr Alston: Portrait of a Prodigy
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ahh yes the holy triumvirate of what the fuck
i plan on having more (i already have ideas for marshall, adams and madison so i will probably reblog this again i am sorry)
burr: the apple and the scarlet letter symbolize what he became after the era of the founders had passed; the serpent in the creation story, as well as a marked man (think Cain and Abel)
jefferson: the caged bird symbolizes the possibility of enlightened liberty, and the tricolor represents France
hamilton: the fasces is an ancient Roman symbol denoting strong government (e pluribus unum) and the peacock feather is a peacock feather
ahh yes the holy triumvirate of what the fuck
i plan on having more (i already have ideas for marshall, adams and madison so i will probably reblog this again i am sorry)
burr: the apple and the scarlet letter symbolize what he became after the era of the founders had passed; the serpent in the creation story, as well as a marked man (think Cain and Abel)
jefferson: the caged bird symbolizes the possibility of enlightened liberty, and the tricolor represents France
hamilton: the fasces is an ancient Roman symbol denoting strong government (e pluribus unum) and the peacock feather is a peacock feather
