GREELEY, HORACE, Journalist, Presidential candidate . Autograph letter signed to T.S. Randall, author of a biography of Thomas Jefferson New York, 20 November 1861. 4 pages, large 8vo., on stationery of The Tribune. A fine, thoughtful, wartime letter in which he considers the relative qualities of Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and the Adamses; he is pleased at Randall's "vindication of Jefferson from the personal calummnies which had somewhat blackened his character....I do not suppose that Mr. Jefferson, any more than other great men of his time, was immaculate; but I rejoice to be assured that he was in the best sense human. I...reverence and incline to love the author of the Declaration of Independence, and if you would let him have some venial faults, I think it would be easier to love him....In building up a Government and Nation, I think him far behind Hamilton....I doubt whether we would have had a real Union but for Hamilton;....Hamilton...in the Convention of '87...is to me one of the grandest figures in history....As to the Adamses, I cannot change my opinion of them. They are a bad lot - conceited, cold-hearted, selfish and (on occasion) treacherous....Depend upon it, blood tells all the way through...." [possibly an allusion to Charles Francis Adams, a member of the House of Representatives and recently appointed Ambassador to Great Britain].
GREELEY, HORACE, Journalist, Presidential candidate . Autograph letter signed to T.S. Randall, author of a biography of Thomas Jefferson New York, 20 November 1861. 4 pages, large 8vo., on stationery of The Tribune. A fine, thoughtful, wartime letter in which he considers the relative qualities of Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and the Adamses; he is pleased at Randall's "vindication of Jefferson from the personal calummnies which had somewhat blackened his character....I do not suppose that Mr. Jefferson, any more than other great men of his time, was immaculate; but I rejoice to be assured that he was in the best sense human. I...reverence and incline to love the author of the Declaration of Independence, and if you would let him have some venial faults, I think it would be easier to love him....In building up a Government and Nation, I think him far behind Hamilton....I doubt whether we would have had a real Union but for Hamilton;....Hamilton...in the Convention of '87...is to me one of the grandest figures in history....As to the Adamses, I cannot change my opinion of them. They are a bad lot - conceited, cold-hearted, selfish and (on occasion) treacherous....Depend upon it, blood tells all the way through...." [possibly an allusion to Charles Francis Adams, a member of the House of Representatives and recently appointed Ambassador to Great Britain].
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