Category: Biographies
THE Right Reverend Doctor Bellamy is a personage of churchly consequence in Bethlehem. Indeed, the doctor is a personage of churchly consequence throughout all Connecticut. For he took his theology from that well-head of divinity and metaphysics, Jonathan Edwards himself, and...
ON that day when the farmers of Concord turn their rifles upon King George, there dwells in Elizabeth a certain English Major Moncrieffe. With him is his daughter, just ceasing...
10. CHAPTER X--THAT SEAT IN THE SENATEWHILE Aaron, frostily contemptuous, but with manners as superfine as his ruffles, is saying those knife-thrust things to son-in-law Hamilton, that latter young gentleman’s face...
16. CHAPTER XVI--THE SWEETNESS OF REVENGEWHILE Aaron flourishes with Senate gavel, and Hamilton mourns his downfall at the Grange, new men are springing up and new lines forming. The Federalists disappear in the presid...
1. CHAPTER I--FROM THEOLOGY TO LAWTHE Right Reverend Doctor Bellamy is a personage of churchly consequence in Bethlehem. Indeed, the doctor is a personage of churchly consequence throughout all Connecticut. For...
22. CHAPTER XXII--HOW AARON RETURNS HOMETHE belated passports arrive, and Aaron journeys to Paris. It is now with him as it was with the unfortunate gentleman, celebrated in Scripture, who went down into a certain cit...
13. CHAPTER XIII--THE GRINDING OF AARON’S MILLAARON tells his friends that he will not go back to the Senate. He puts this resolution to retire on the double grounds of young Theodosia’s loneliness and a consequent paternal...
8. CHAPTER VIII--MARRIAGE AND THE LAWYOUNG Aaron, with his regiment, is ordered to West Point. Next he is dispatched to hold the Westchester lines, being that debatable ground lying between the Americans at White P...
18. CHAPTER XVIII--THE TREASON OF WILKINSONNOW begin days crowded on new faces and new scenes. Aaron ascends the Potomac, and crosses the mountains to Pittsburg. He buys a cabined flatboat and floats down to Marietta. Th...
19. CHAPTER XIX--HOW AARON IS INDICTEDIT is evening at the White House. The few dinner guests have departed, and Jefferson is alone in his study. As he stands at the open window, and gazes out across the sweep of la...
7. CHAPTER VII--THE CONQUERING THEODOSIAWHILE young Aaron, in his camp by the Ramapo, is wringing the withers of his men with merciless drills, sixteen miles away, in the outskirts of the village of Paranius dwells Ma...
11. CHAPTER XI--THE STATESMAN FROM NEW YORKTHE shop of government has been moved to Philadelphia. In the brief space between the overthrow of the rusty Schuyler by Aaron, and the latter taking his seat, the great ones ta...
14. CHAPTER XIV--THE TRIUMPH OF AARONIT is the era of bad feeling, and the breasts of men are reservoirs of poison. Jefferson and Adams, while known admitted rivals, deplore these wormwood conditions and strive aga...
3. CHAPTER III--COLONEL BENEDICT ARNOLD EXPLAINSIT is September, brilliant and golden. Newburyport is brave with warlike excitement. Drums roll, fifes shriek, armed men fill the single village street. These latter are not sea...
21. CHAPTER XXI--THE SAILING AWAY OF AARON.SIX months creep by; May is painting Manhattan with its flowers. The house of the stubborn, loyal Swartwout is in Stone Street. Long ago, in the old Dutch beaver-peltry days, th...
15. CHAPTER XV--THE INTRIGUE OF THE TIEHAMILTON writhes and twists like a hurt snake. Helpless in that first effort before the adamantine honesty of Jay, when the breath of his courage returns, he bends himself to co...
5. CHAPTER V--THE WRATH OF WASHINGTONTHE gray morning finds the routed ones in their old camp by the St. Lawrence. Colonel Arnold’s assault has also failed. The ex-apothecary received a slight wound, and is vastly...
17. CHAPTER XVII--AARON I, EMPEROR OF MEXICOAARON sits placidly serene at Richmond Hill. Over his wine and his cigar, he reduces those dreams of empire to ink and paper. He maps out his design as architects draw plans and...
9. CHAPTER IX--SON-IN-LAW HAMILTONNOW when young Aaron, in the throbbing metropolis of New York, finds himself a lawyer and a married man, with an office by the Bowling Green and a house in fashionable Maiden La...
12. CHAPTER XII--IDLENESS AND BLACK RESOLVESAARON finds a Senate existence inexpressibly dull. He writes his Theodosia: “There is nothing to do here. Everybody is idle; and, so far as I see, the one occupation of a senato...
20. CHAPTER XX--HOW AARON IS FOUND INNOCENTTHE indictments are read, and Aaron pleads “Not guilty!” Thereupon Luther Martin moves for a _subpoena duces tecum_ against Jefferson, commanding him to bring into court those w...
23. CHAPTER XXIII--GRIEF COMES KNOCKINGAaron works like a horse and lives like a Spartan. He rises with the blue of dawn. His servant appears with his breakfast--an egg, a plate of toast, a pot of coffee. He is at hi...
4. CHAPTER IV--THE YOUNG FRENCH PRIESTTHERE are many deserted log huts along the St. Lawrence. Colonel Arnold has taken up his quarters in one of these. It is eight o’clock of the morning following the talk with you...
2. CHAPTER II--THE GENTLEMAN VOLUNTEERYOUNG Aaron establishes himself in Litchfield with his pretty sister Sally, who, because he is brilliant and handsome, is proud of him. Also, Tappan Reeve, her husband, takes to...
24. CHAPTER XXIV--THE DOWNFALL OF KING CAUCUSMarionette madison is withdrawn from the White House boards at the close of his second term. Jefferson, working the machinery from Monticello, replaces him with Marionette Monro...
25. CHAPTER XXV--THE SERENE LAST DAYSAARON goes forward with his business--his cases in court, his conferences with clients. Accurate as an Alvan-ley in dress, slim, light, with the quick step of a boy, no one migh...