dissensions among Federalists, 298;
predicts their defeat, 298;
his sudden illness, 299-302;
death, 303.

_Character_,
misunderstood, 304;
extravagantly praised, 304;
disliked on account of being called faultless, 305;
bitterly attacked in lifetime, 306;
sneered at by Jefferson, 306;
by Pickering, 307;
called an Englishman, not an American, 307, 308;
difference of his type from that of Lincoln, 310;
none the less American, 311, 312;
compared with Hampden, 312;
his manners those of the times elsewhere in America, 314;
aristocratic, but of a non-English type, 314-316;
less affected by Southern limitations than his neighbors, 316;
early dislike of New England changed to respect, 316, 317;
friendly with people of humble origin, 317, 318;
never an enemy of democracy, 318;
but opposes French excesses, 318;
his self-directed and American training, 319, 320;
early conception of a nation, 321;
works toward national government during Revolution, 321;
his interest in Western expansion, 321, 322;
national character of his Indian policy, 322;
of his desire to secure free Mississippi navigation, 322;
of his opposition to war as a danger to Union, 323;
his anger at accusation of foreign subservience, 323;
continually asserts necessity for independent American policy,
324, 325;
opposes foreign educational influences, 325, 326;
favors foundation of a national university, 326;
breadth and strength of his national feeling, 327;
absence of boastfulness about country, 328;
faith in it, 328;
charge that he was merely a figure-head, 329;
its injustice, 330;
charged with commonplaceness of intellect, 330;
incident of the deathbed explained, 330, 331;
falsity of the charge, 331;
inability of mere moral qualities to achieve what he did, 331;
charged with dullness and coldness, 332;
his seriousness, 333;
responsibility from early youth, 333;
his habits of keen observation, 333;
power of judging men, 334;
ability to use them for what they were worth, 335;
anecdote of advice to Hamilton and Meade, 335;
deceived only by Arnold, 336;
imperfect education, 337;
continual efforts to improve it, 337, 338;
modest regarding his literary ability, 339, 340;
interested in education, 339;
character of his writing, 340;
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