So they're both entirely dedicated to it. They're both convinced that it will be safe for the country, that it will not fundamentally destroy its revolutionary principles or something of that kind. But what happens there is that Hamilton and Madison are both entirely convinced that this new Constitution, which the Constitutional Convention has written, is absolutely essential to deal with the problems of the country.
BANNING: Yeah, and-and not only that, but seem often so much in agreement on-on "The Federalist" Papers that there was 100 years of argument about a few numbers whose authorship was in dispute. But I-I suppose part of the reason that they do that is that they come very quickly to realize that the country is so large that there's never going to be a way for a majority public opinion to form and express itself if you don't have channels like newspapers for their day and other kinds of media for ours that can spread information. So they play a critical role in the course of American history in encouraging the development of a politically oriented media, public opinion and that kind of thing.Īnd before the 1790s were over, that media could sometimes get pretty scurrilous and that kind of thing. One of the first things they did-when they became intensely concerned about the directions that Washington's administration, under Alexander Hamilton's guidance, was taking, one of the things that they did first of all was to encourage Phillip Ferneaux to come to the national-what was then the national capital and create a newspaper for the purpose of informing the people about what was going on in-in national politics, carrying controversial essays on those subjects and that kind of thing. Madison and Jefferson were among the people-one of the things that they did when they created the Jeffersonian Republican Party was to encourage-in fact, they thought absolutely essential, the circulation of-of information among the public, which would come by way of the newspapers. BANNING: These are very hard questions to answer. For their sake, then, let us hope that all the individuals who will come to reside in the President’s House will follow in the outsized footsteps of the first.Mr. In addition to political strife, Washington’s hopes to reduce moral strife have been largely dashed, after his pleas for a gradual abolition of chattel slavery have gone wholly unanswered in much of the Union.ĭespite the issues of political factionalism and slavery looming large over the Union, the 23 states have an unbridled optimism towards the future. His dire warnings against political factionalism have gone largely unheeded, as John Adams and his rival Thomas Jefferson have gone on to engage in merciless mudslinging. However, even after everything that the great man accomplished - from the salvation of the young republic to the peaceful, democratic transfer of power - George Washington still feels that he didn’t accomplish enough. As Washington’s time in elected office draws to a close, the Election of 1794 has confirmed the Vice President, John Adams of Massachusetts, to be Washington’s successor. Its first president, the former general George Washington, has ensured that the young nation’s unprecedented political system will carry on beyond his own rule. Lore: In the year 1795, the United States of America is in a rather turbulent period, yet its future looks bright.
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