Ethics

The Adams on Hamilton

By Ed Brayton

John and Abigail Adams had some interesting things to say about Alexander Hamilton. John Adams called Alexander Hamilton a "bastard brat of a Scotch pedlar," who had a "superabundance of secretions which he could not find whores enough to draw off." Finally Adams decried "the profligacy of his life; his fornications, adulteries and his incests."

Abigail wasn't much nicer. "Oh, I have read his heart in his wicked eyes. The very devil is in them. They are lasciviousness itself."

They thought he was a real perv. LOL.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on January 11, 2009 (boomark / email).