Category: Biographies
Of all European-born citizens who have risen to fame in the political service of the United States, Albert Gallatin is the most distinguished. His merit in legislation, administration, and diplomacy is generally recognized, and he is venerated by men of science on both contine...
Of all European-born citizens who have risen to fame in the political service of the United States, Albert Gallatin is the most distinguished. His merit in legislation, administ...
2. Chapter 2Political revolutions are the opportunity of youth. In England, Pitt and Fox; in America, Hamilton and Gouverneur Morris; in Europe, Napoleon and Pozzo di Borgo, before they rea...
3. Chapter 3The death of the grandfather of Mr. Gallatin, and soon after of his aunt, strongly tempted him to make a journey to Geneva in the summer of 1793. The political condition of Euro...
4. Chapter 4Mr. Gallatin was now out of public life. For eighteen months since he came up to the legislature with his friends of the Pittsburgh convention, he had not returned to Fayette. H...
5. Chapter 5The first session of the fourth Congress began at Philadelphia on Monday, December 7, 1795. Washington was president, John Adams vice-president. No one of Washington's original...
6. Chapter 6The material comfort of every people depends more immediately upon the correct management of its finances than upon any other branch of government. _Haute finance_, to use a Fre...
7. Chapter 7Civil Department, foreign intercourse $1,823,069.35 Army, militia, forts, etc. $7,770,300.00 Navy Department 3,107,501.54 Indian Department 230,975.00 ------------- 11,108,776.5...
8. Chapter 8The general principles which Mr. Jefferson proposed to apply in his conduct of the government were not principles of organization but of administration. The establishments devis...
9. Chapter 9On May 9, 1813, the ship Neptune sailed from New Castle on the Delaware, having on board Albert Gallatin and James A. Bayard, ministers of the United States, with their four sec...
10. Chapter 10During the twelve years that Mr. Gallatin was in the Treasury he was continually looking for some man who could take his place in that office, and aid in the direction of nation...
11. Chapter 11Mr. Gallatin's land speculations were not profitable. His plan of Swiss colonization did not result in any pecuniary advantage to himself. His little patrimony, received in 1786...