George Cabot A.L.S., Boston, July 18, 1804 : to Mr. [John?] Lowell, [s.l.]

George Cabot A.L.S., Boston, July 18, 1804 : to Mr. [John?] Lowell, [s.l.]

Boston 1804

[4] p. ; 25 cm.

MSS L1990.1.192 MB

"Harry Lee is charged with Newspaper of the day which will announce & explain to you the public misfortune experienced here by the untimely death of Hamilton."|"I have always thought his virtues surpassed those of other men almost as much as his talents - his errors unfortunately for the country were conspicuous & diminished his influence which otherwise would have been unmistakable & was [sic] always directed to the noblest purposes."|"All reflecting men seem now to be sensible that he was our hope in the crisis to which lour affairs necessarily drive us. France has finished the first & principal piece of her drama, & it remains only to see who will come out as manager ...."|"You judge rightly of the course of things here because such as you describe must be the course of all democracies -- a democracy is in terms a solecism, as we undertand it in the U.S."|"It is absurd to expect any people will voluntarily & knowingly support men or systems which compel them to do what they wish to avoid & restrain them from doing what the desire to do."|Cabot was Lowell's uncle|Watermark: Hayes & Wise 1801 -- Gravell, foreign watermarks, from the mill of John Hayes and John Wise, Maidstone, England. Figure 363 is similar, but bears the date 1800.

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