Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1883 — THE THREE GREATEST AMERICANS. [ARTICLE]

THE THREE GREATEST AMERICANS.

The great intellectual trio of our history are not Clay, Calhoun and Webster, popular though they were, but Hamilton, Marshall and Webster. These are three immortal intellectually greatest, and, judged by that standard, no other American statesman is worthy to be placed in that rank. Hamilton,' as the writer of the military correspondence pf Washington, of the Federalist, of the great report on finance, of many of Washington’s state papers, including the farewell address, proved himself to be a statesman, constitutional lawyer and financier of oonsummate powers and extraordinary genius. John Marshall, as the founder of American jurisprhdence, earned the title of the Great Chief Justice, anid as a jurist proved himself the peer at least of Eldon, Mansfield and Holt. Webster, who sat at the feet of Hamilton and Marshall as a reverent worshiper, while lacking the learning arid versatility of the former and the legal lore and marvelous intellectual acuteness of the latter, .in a certain mountain-like massiveness of intellect surpassed perhaps all modern men. It is safe to predict that the future student’ of American history will honor still more his country’s greatest statesman, greatest jurist and grandest orator.— Gath. An insurance agent named Pylo, In running fell over the stile, Bt. Jacobs Oil gave relief, And the pain was so brief, He got up arid A lame old lady at Keyser, Had no pne to advise her, 'Till Doctor John Boyle, Tried St. Jacobs Oil, Its action did simply surprise her.