New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . ficientvitality in New Jersey to tie the State in 1802, andto make a respectable showing at each session ofthe Legislature. So long as its acknowledged headwas alive it could gasp for breath. But after thatfateful day Federalism in the nation gave way tothe new order. To the people of the State the name of Hamil-ton was endeared quite as much by his active in-terest in the stimulation of local manufactures asby his political leadership. He had been the friendof William Livingston and Washington; he hadbeen active in the est
New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . ficientvitality in New Jersey to tie the State in 1802, andto make a respectable showing at each session ofthe Legislature. So long as its acknowledged headwas alive it could gasp for breath. But after thatfateful day Federalism in the nation gave way tothe new order. To the people of the State the name of Hamil-ton was endeared quite as much by his active in-terest in the stimulation of local manufactures asby his political leadership. He had been the friendof William Livingston and Washington; he hadbeen active in the establishment of the Society for Esta blishing Useful Manufactures; hehad watched over the beginnings of the proprie-tors, later the associators, of the Paulus Hookproject, from which grew Jersey City, ^e hadencouraged Fitch and Stevens in their steamboatexperiments; he was known as the friend of thosewho dreamed of a canal uniting the waters ofthe Raritan with thc^e of the Delaware; he had ^^iS*^m0 THE HAMILTON-BURR DUELLIXG GROUND : WEKHAWKEN. 158 NEW JERSEY AS A COL. stood for political conservatism, such as the con-stitution of the State itself represented. Nor was the interest of New Jersey in Burr lessgreat, except that it was raised upon the less firmbasis of political rather than economic and socialconsiderations. The Vice-President had been bornin Newark, his father had been president of the Col-lege of New Jersey, he had fought in the Revolu-tion upon the soil of this State, and as a memberof the New York bar had been brought into asso-ciation with New Jerseys judges and practition-ers of law. He had, moreover, been closely in touchwith those Jerseymen who were but recently in-strumental in bringing the commonwealth intoan active support of the policies of Thomas Jef-ferson. But in spite of this, in spite of his nerv-ous, dominant leadership, Burr lacked, even inhis native State, that power to hold men close tohim, although he well enough knew how to at-tract them. Even
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