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Works of Fisher Ames Fisher Ames John Thornton Kirkland 9781145894242 Books Reviews
In the "Coup d'etat Convention at Philadelphia" in 1787, Hamiltonian proponents of a strong central government, who had lamented the establishment of the confederacy since the publication of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in 1776, took the opportunity to overthrow the Articles rather than amend them (the meeting was called for "the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation".) and replace them with a Roman-style Constitution. To camouflage their actions and intentions to secure a neo-Roman government as their tool to usurp the peoples' liberties in order to privilege themselves, they then stole the term "Federalist" and applied it to their series of Orwellian double-speak propaganda dubbed "The Federalist Papers". The true federalists who stood for the Principles of 1776 and the Articles of Confederation, were given the misnomer "Anti-Federalists". The key players in the anti-federalist "Federalist" movement were three young opportunists James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and Fisher Ames.
Madison and Hamilton are legendary among students of U.S. history; Fisher Ames is relatively unknown. But in his time, his name was mentioned as often as his peers. He was an accomplished propagandist for the Federalists and it was he, at age 31, who penned the final draft of the First Amendment to the Constitution in an attempt to appeal to the true federalists (Anti-Federalists) for support of the ratification of the neo-Romanist document. Ames's oratorial skills were also brilliant; he delivered powerful speeches in sessions of Congress after the neo-Roman republic had been established. His best speech was made on behalf of Jay's Treaty, where Congress had sent the Supreme Court Justice to Britain to reach a settlement that would avoid war between the two countries, and Jay came back with a treaty that sold-out Yankee interests to the British.
During and after his political career, Ames wrote hundreds of letters to Federalist Party leaders, especially in Massachusetts. His letters give an insider's perspective on events and personalites surrounding the "Coup d'etat at Philadelphia" and the establisment of the U.S. Republic. In this two-volume set of the writings of Fisher Ames are 46 essays in Volume I and 292 letters and 17 speeches in Volume II. The essays are grouped under ten themes Social Class and Character, From Consideration to Nation, On Founding and Patriotism, On Monarchical Versus Republican Government, On America's Political Parties, On Equality, Defending The "Federalists", Attacking the Republicans, On The French Revolution and European Parties, and Eulogies. These two volumes encompass 1,618 pages. As an historical representative sampling of Federalist thought in addition to their Orwellian doublespeak tricks, it is awesome.
For example, Ames wrote a letter under the name Bifron Janus, one of his many pen names. He titled it "Against Jacobins"
"We have a noisy party who call themselves republicans - democrats - equality men, etc. etc. etc. They are forever crying out the people - the people. This hyprocrisy would be a matter of diversion, if we could laugh at what is horrid. These bawlings are against the people, not on their side, and the steps they pursue are intended and well adapted to narrow the power of the people, not to enlarge it. They are anti-republicans, the real and truly dangerous aristocrats of our country, the very men who hate equality, and who try to rule and domineer in spite of the laws. . . When the Constitution was on its passage, this very party, then beginning to rally and to set itself in array, pretended great zeal for the Union, but the old confederation was, said they, equal to every national purpose."
From reading the hundreds of pieces of prose collected here, you will see how the Hamiltonians and other elites feared free enterprise and libertarianism. They seized political power through effective use of propaganda and disinformation in order to suppress free enterprise as much as possible, and to usurp the peoples' liberties in order to privilege themselves.
As a student of American history I am delighted to see (after reading the review below) that Fisher Ames, a statesman and political thinker who is largely forgotten even by historians, is still giving people something to talk about.
The last reviewer (a libertarian) took the typical Jeffersonian view of the Federalists as a group of tricksters whose only goal was to subvert liberty and to install an aristocratic republic in the United States. This view sounds similar to that of Thomas DiLorezno. DiLorezno (a libertarian and a current support of Southern secession) has made it his mission to cuddle the liberty-loving Thomas Jefferson against his arch nemesis, the horrifying statist Alexander Hamilton. In his recent book, aptly titled "Hamilton's Curse," DiLorezno makes the assertion that Alexander Hamilton was the founder of the modern American welfare/warfare state. Rubbish! This is a clear case of the problem of taking historical figures out of their context. The concept of state welfare was absolutely foreign to both Hamiltonians and Jeffersonians. Hamilton and the Federalists were not seeking to create a military-industrial nanny-state, but rather a commercial republic as opposed to the Jeffersonian's agrarian republic.
Moreover, it was not the Federalists, but the Jeffersonians who expanded the size of the central government. Any historian of the Early Republic will tell you that after Thomas Jefferson became president he abandoned most of his states' rights principles. Here are three examples (there are more). (1) Jefferson illegally bought the Louisiana Territory (the biggest land purchase in American history) even though the Constitution does not give the President the right to rule over foreign citizens. Furthermore, the purchase increased the national debt (Louisiana cost a staggering $15,000,000) more than the Federalists ever did. (2) Jefferson, a proponent of laissez-faire, completely ended foreign trade in this country for nearly two years under his Embargo (not even Hamilton could boast about doing this). (3) In order to impose his Embargo, which was one of the most unpopular presidential moves in the history of this country because it halted Northern commerce and the exportation of Southern Cotton, Jefferson imprisoned those in New England who tried to evade it. In 1808 Jefferson even lamented to a friend that "There are extreme cases where the laws become inadequate even to their own preservation, and where the univeral resource is a dictator or martial law." Keep in mind this is the hero of libertarians and advocates of states' rights. As Henry Adams rightly observed "He [Jefferson] had undertaken to create a government which should interfere in no way with private action, and he had created one which interfered directly in the concerns of every private citizen in the land. He had come into power as the champion of states' rights, and had driven states to the verge of armed resistance. He had begun by claiming credit for stern economy, and ended by exceeding the expenditure of his predecessors."
The last reviewer has called Fisher Ames a mere "propagandist" who is guilty of using "Orwellian double-speak" to "usurp the peoples' liberties." On the contrary, during the presidency of the quasi-dictator Thomas Jefferson, Ames was a defender of liberty. His essay "The Dangers of American Liberty" (1803) should be read, not as an aristocratic condemnation of liberty, but as a concerned statesman who saw in American democracy the seeds for tyranny. In part, Ames was reacting to the excesses of the French Revolution and began to see the American presidency as a vehicle for tyranny by popular consent. He was concerned about the rights of minorities in a society where the majority rules; an idea that would be reiterated by the Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville in the 1830s.
In light of our current society, which is dominated by state-imposed multiculturalism and politically correct language, Ames is more timely then ever. The majority of those who voted in 2008 elected a man who stands for a managerial state and who has surrounded himself with those who intend to use social engineering to force their ideology on American citizens. Ames would never have approved of this, but he would not have been suprised that the concept of majority-rule would eventually be used for ideological and cultural tyranny.
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