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and the nation this founding father fought to create. Here to tell the story is Andrew Porwansher. Andrew is a professor of legal history at Arizona State University. This story is adapted from his book, The Jewish World. of Alexander Hamilton.
Let's take a listen. Um I fear prepossessions are strongly against us. Hamilton wrote to his wife Eliza. but we must try to overcome them. It was the first day of a high-profile trial where he was serving as legal counsel for a merchant accused of fraud.
Hamilton seemed to brace for the worst, adding, If I should lose my cause, I must console myself with finding my friends. With the utmost eagerness I will fly to them. It had been five years since Hamilton stepped down as Treasury Secretary to take up legal practice in Manhattan. He had earned a reputation as the premier litigator of the New York bar by wetting his encyclopedic knowledge of law. with his gift for courtroom oratory.
Although Hamilton was remarkably self-assured in his endeavors, And the facts in the foregoing case were squarely on his side. He felt uncharacteristically discomfited as the trial commenced. There was good reason to be anxious. After all, Hamilton's principal witnesses? We're Jews.
An anti-Semitic trope at the time held that the Jewish faith actually encouraged its adherents to lie under oath in courts of law. This ugly stereotype had deep roots in European history and had migrated to the New World. Hamilton's opposing counsel, Gouverneur Morris, Would prove all too willing to resort to religious prejudice in a bid to gain favor with the court. Morris knew he could not compete with Hamilton on legal grounds. Instead, Morris told the court he had no intention of referencing law books and would appeal to the principles written on the heart of man.
Morse's closing argument degenerated into a base attack. on Hamilton's two Jewish witnesses. alluding to them as these Jew witnesses. Morris sought to impugn their credibility purely on the basis of their religion. Jews are not to be believed upon oath.
He insisted bluntly. A large crowd gathered in court the next day to see how Hamilton, ever the relentless fighter, would respond. This case had become more than a mere legal dispute between merchants at issue. was the momentous question of whether American justice would be blind to religion. The revolution had rested on a radical promise of equality.
Morris is Jew-baiting. Suggested that perhaps the egalitarian rationale for the war had yielded to entrenched prejudice. Uh Hamilton understood the stakes. for both American Jewry and the country. and he resolved to defend the former to realize his vision for the latter.
Referencing Morris's attack on the Jews, Hamilton asked the court. Has he forgotten what this race once were, when under the immediate government of God Himself they were selected as the witnesses of His miracles and charged with the spirit of prophecy? Hamilton moved from a discussion of the Jews as the chosen people. to the sordid history of their suffering. Hamilton's message was clear.
Morris was perpetuating a dark history of anti-Semitism that had plagued Jews since antiquity. Hamilton proclaimed that the allegorical Lady Justice protected Jews the same as she did all others. Be the injured party Jew or Gentile, Christian or pagan, foreign or native, she clothes him with her mantle. In whose presence all differences of faiths or births, passions or prejudices, all are called to acknowledge and revere her supremacy. F.
In a young republic caught between old world hierarchies and new world hopes. Hamilton's defense of equality for Jews was a powerful vindication of revolutionary ideals. He emerged victorious. by a vote of twenty eight to six. I hereby declare This session adjourned.
Hamilton, generally renowned for the verve of his legal performances. Had demonstrated an emotional investment in the case that exceeded even his usual standards. A New York Supreme Court justice later recollected that of the countless trials Hamilton litigated with energy and fervor, there was at most only one other involving freedom of the press in which his zeal was so strikingly displayed. Morris's co-counsel Robert Troup drew similar conclusions. In a letter to the American ambassador to Great Britain, Troop relayed the details of the trial and observed: Our friend Hamilton never appeared to have his passions so warmly engaged in any cause.
What no one could imagine was that Hamilton, in all likelihood, shared with his witnesses a Jewish upbringing. The case for Hamilton's Jewish identity in his Caribbean boyhood. As detailed in my book, The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton. involves debunking a string of myths about his origin story. And although Hamilton did not identify as Jewish in the United States, The foregoing trials suggest that Hamilton's youth may go a long way toward explaining his American adulthood.
Like all people, Hamilton was indelibly molded by his beginnings. His emphatic critique of anti-Semitism in court. Vividly illustrates how the roots of religious equality in the United States are inseparable from Hamilton's own. And a special thanks to Andrew Porwansher. And we get at those roots of anti-Semitism going all the way back to that trial.
Jews were not reliable witnesses, but What a tragic thought. The story of Alexander Hamilton defending Jews in court. Here on Our American Story. Lee Habib here. As we approach our nation's 250th anniversary, I'd like to remind you that all the history stories you hear on this show are brought to you by the great folks at Hillsdale College.
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