The correspondence in Hamilton does not «match» the actual letters, unlike Washington`s farewell speech or the De Reynolds pamphlet. The full letters can be found here. The only almost literal line is the signature that the two signs read aloud during Your Obedient Servant is the partially eponymous line «I have the honor of being your obedient servant,» followed by «A. Burr» or «A. Ham.» Apart from this almost identical line, the correspondence heard in Hamilton is quite original. This reference seems close enough to be the origin of the sentence in question: «Here is a detailed list of thirty years of disagreement.» It seems to have ended from Hamilton and Burr to Leslie Knope in Parks & Recreation and back to Hamilton and Burr, with a bit of beautification at every step. Burr was waiting at the steep palisades (roughly across the river from present-day West 42nd Street) when Hamilton arrived .m at 7 a.m. from .m. with his second-in-command, Revolutionary War veteran And Georgia District Court judge Nathaniel Pendleton, along with Dr. David Hosack, professor of medicine and botany at Columbia College (now Columbia University).
Duels were illegal in New York and New Jersey, but were treated less harshly in New Jersey, so Burr and Hamilton had gone to Weehawken in a remote rocky outcrop about 20 feet above the Hudson River, a place that had become a popular duel site. Shortly after regaining his sight, he sometimes glanced at the holster of the guns, and as he looked at the one he had in his hand, which was outside, he said, «Take care of this gun; he is free and always excited; it can trigger and cause damage. Pendleton knows» (trying to turn his head) «that I had no intention of shooting him.» «Yes,» Pendleton said, understanding his desire, «I have Dr. Hosack knew your determination in this regard.» Then he closed his eyes and remained calm, without predisposition to speak; He did not say much afterwards, except in response to my questions. He asked me once or twice how I found his pulse; and he told me that his lower limbs had lost all feeling, and showed me that he had no hope of surviving for long. [27] In the early morning of July 11, 1804, Burr and Hamilton left Manhattan in separate boats and rowed across the Hudson River to a location known as the Heights of Weehawken, New Jersey, a popular battleground under the towering cliffs of the New Jersey Palisades. [27] [20] Duels had been banned in New York and New Jersey, but Hamilton and Burr agreed to go to Weehawken because New Jersey was not as aggressive as New York in pursuing the duel participants. The same location was used between 1700 and 1845 for 18 known duels, including the 1801 duel, in which Hamilton`s eldest son, Philip Hamilton, was killed.
[21] They also took steps to plausibly deny all witnesses in order to protect themselves from prosecution. For example, the guns were transported to the island in portmanteau so that the rowers could say under oath that they had not seen any guns. They also stood with their backs to the duelists. [22] Burr`s shot hit Hamilton in the abdomen above his right hip, broke a rib, tore his diaphragm and liver, and got stuck in his spine. Burr apparently began to head towards Hamilton, perhaps with a look of regret on his face, but Van Ness quickly blurred him and covered his face with potential witnesses. After declaring himself dead, Hamilton was sent back to Manhattan and survived for about 31 hours, mostly in the presence of his family, before dying. Soon under threat of murder prosecution, Burr fled first to Philadelphia, but eventually to Diefamie, although he was never tried for murder. He had hoped to restore his reputation and political career by linking up with Hamilton; instead, he wiped them out. But it wasn`t that simple. They were outwardly polite to each other, and no evidence was found that Burr Hamilton before 1800 considered anything other than a political opponent and a respected colleague at the bar. On the other hand, Hamilton looked at Burr with deep distrust and even aversion.
In 1792, when Burr was considered a possible candidate for vice president, Hamilton wrote privately that Burr was «unprincipled, both as a public and private man,» that «his integrity as an individual is not undisputed…, as a public man, he is of the worst kind,» and that «he is a man whose only political principle is to: in any case, to rise to the highest political honors of the nation, and as far as circumstances will carry it. 20 The duel was the final battle of a long conflict between Democratic-Republicans and Federalists. The conflict began in 1791 when Burr won a seat in the U.S. Senate from Philip Schuyler, Hamilton`s father-in-law, who is said to have supported federalist policies. (Hamilton was Secretary of the Treasury at the time.) The Electoral College then blocked the 1800 election, in which Hamilton`s maneuvers in the House of Representatives led to the nomination of Thomas Jefferson as president and Burr vice president. The last political confrontation between Burr and Hamilton took place during the election for governor of New York in 1804.[2] Again, there was considerable federalist sentiment for Burr, but Hamilton supported Republican John Lansing, Jr., who accepted the nomination and turned it down. Hamilton then urged the Federalists to vote for Lansing`s successor, Morgan Lewis.24 Lewis defeated Burr, and it was apparently after that election that Hamilton made the alleged statement that led to the duel. .