...place, at such a time, the whole country perceived with delight and the whole world saw with admiration. He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant...touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprang upon its feet The fabled birth of Minerva, from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden or...

...with delight and the whole world saw with admiration. HP smote the rock of the national resour es, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched...hardly more sudden or more perfect than the financial svstem of the United States, as it 310 PUBLIC DINNER AT NEW YORK. /burst forth from the conceptions...

...immutable principles. Webster's words were not mere panegyric when he said: "He smote the rock of natural resources and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth;...of the public credit and it sprung upon its feet. " He came to a treasury with neither money nor credit; he provided the one and established the other....

...matter of history. 2 Webster summed it up in his oratorical fashion by declaring, " He smote the rock of national resources and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth; he touched the dead corpse of public credit and it sprang upon its feet." Hamilton's leadership slipped away from him during the...

...the early years under the Federal Constitution was Alexander Hamilton of whom Daniel Webster said: "He smote the rock of the national resources and abundant streams of revenue burst forth. He touched the dead corpse of public credit, and it sprung upon its feet." The policies...

...Webster's tribute to the first Secretary of the Treasury has become classic: "He smote the rock of national resources and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth ; he touched the dead corpse of public credit and it sprang upon its feet." Certain it is that the growth of our economic prosperity...

...Committee has now done. In concluding his article Mr. Boyden says: Alexander Hamilton "smote the rock of national resources and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit and it sprung upon its feet." This is almost too "high-falutin" for us moderns, but nevertheless...

...Jefferson characterized Hamilton as "the Colossus of the Federalist party." Daniel Webster said of him : "He smote the rock of the national resources, and...the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprung to its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva from the brain of Jove was hardly more sudden or more perfect...

...Webster's tribute to the first Secretary of the Treasury has become classic: "He smote the rock of national resources and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth; he touched the dead corpse of public credit and it sprang upon its feet." Certain it is that the growth of our economic prosperity...

...Nation received with delight, and the whole world saw with admiration. He smote the rock of natural resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of public credit, and it sprang to its feet."" He might have added that prices rose rapidly. The highest...