The surrender of Detroit, Dearborn's blunder in wasting time, and the inefficiency of the secretary of war had raised a storm of public wrath sufficient to annihilate Hull and to shake the earth under Eustis; but it passed harmlessly over the head of the President.
Alexander critiques the public's reaction to military failures and their impact on presidential authority.
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I discerned also unmistakable evidences of stern integrity, earnest patriotism, and unswerving fidelity.
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people, until he fancies himself commissioned by heaven to liberate them.
He saw the importance of devoting the resources of the State to the reduction of its debt.
As he lived, so he died, a strange, lonely, unhappy man, out of tune with the beautiful world in which he was permitted to exist upward of four score years.
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