Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1884 — Hamilton at College. [ARTICLE]

Hamilton at College.

The most distinguished student of Kings (Columbia) College, Alexander Hamilton, matriculated in 1774. At that time all men’s minds wore deeply moved by the great question of the Bevolution. President Cooper sided with the mother country, talking and writing with all his power against the freedom of the colonies. The tide of indignation rising higher and highor against such doctrines, it was dually determined to hold a public meeting in the open fields just above Dey street on the 6th of July, 1774, for the purpose of protesting against the acts of the authorities. tfoung Hamilton was urged to address the meeting, and as he closed a brilliant and impassioned address, the cry of surprise, “It is a collegian,” with which his youthful ap{tearance was received, gave way to oud expressions of wonder and applause. Young Hamilton presently crossed swords, or pens, with his coilege president, who could not believe at first that so young a man could be so strong a pamphleteer. In one of the periods of the excitement a liberty mob approached the college with the purt pose of laying violent hands on the Tory president. As they drew neahis residence, Hamilton' and Bobere Troup, a fellow-student, ascended thr steps, and fearful lest in this moment of irritation they might commit some excess, Hamilton, in order to give the president time to escape, harangued the mob with great eloquence and animation “on the excessive impropriety of their conduct, and the disgrace they were bringing on the cause of liberty, of which they professed to be the champions.” In the meantime another student, who had preceded the throngs had warned the president of his danger just in time to save him. “He escaped only half dressed, over the college fence, reached the shore of the Hudson and wandered along the river bank till near morning, when he found shelter in the house of his friend, Mr. Stuyvesant, where he remained for that date and during the night following he took refuge on board the Kingfisher, an English ship-of-war, in which soon after he sailed.”— Harper’s Magazine.

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard; they do not believe anv reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.— l. Barrow. To develop in each individual all the perfection of which he is susceptible, is the object of education.—£. Kant.