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wick, would have been less perfect as a compositi ; 
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In the presi ential election of 1796, he supporte 
Pickney; the French Directory having pores ae Kaa 
people by acts of hostility, the army was recognized in the 
summer of 1798, whereupon Washington then accepted the 
chief command of the army, on condition that Hamilton should 
be the second in command; hence, he was accordingly made 
inspector-general, with the rang of major-general, after the 
general-in-chief had overcome the repugnance of the president 
to Hamilton’s appointment by a menace of resignation; thus 
on the death of General Washington, December, 1799, he suc- 
ceeded him as commander-in-chief, whereupon the army was 
soon disbanded, and he resumed the practice of law. 
About September, 1799, he censured President Adams for 
appointing an embassy to France, which caused a breach in 
the Federal party, and was defeated in the presidential elec- 
tion of 1800; when the duty devolved on the House of Rep- 
resentatives to decide whether Jefferson or Burr should be 
president, Hamilton advised his friends to prefer the former. 
In 1804 Aaron Burr presented himself as a candidate for the 
office of governor of New York, hoping to receive the votes 
of many Federalists, whereupon Hamilton opposed the elec- 
tion of him, expressing his opinion that he was a dangerous 
man, being unfit to be trusted with power. Hereupon the 
election of General Lewis blasted the ambitious projects of 
Burr, who insolently demanded an explanation of Hamilton, 
simultaneously challenging him. Hamilton accepted the chal- 
lenge, was mortally wounded at Weehawken, and died July 
12th, 1804. 
Ah, dear reader, in conclusion, let us see the funeral of this 
great man which took place from the house of John Church, 
in Robinson Street, near the upper Park, New York. Here 
every place of business was closed, every city tolled its bells 
as it received the news, while people flocked upon the side- 
walks, the world being in the windows, on the housetops, 
and on the pavements of the streets through which the cortege 
was to pass—Robinson, Beekman, Peal, and Broadway to 
Trinity Church. Thus, those who were to walk in the funeral 
procession waited, while the Sixth Regiment, with the colors 
and music of the several corps, paraded in Robinson Street 
until the standard of the Cincinnati, shrouded in crepe, was 
waved before the open door of Mr. Church’s house; here the 
regiment immediately halted and rested on its reversed arms 
until the bier had been carried from the house to the center of 
the street, when the procession immediately formed, its order 
being as follows: 
The Military Corps, the Society of the Cincinnati, clergy 
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