Doggerel against Alexander Hamilton


 * ASK—who lies here beneath this monument?
 * L o!—’tis a self created MONSTER, who
 * E mbraced all vice. His arrogance was like
 * X erxes, who flogg’d the disobedient sea,
 * A dultery his smallest crime; when he
 * N obility affected. This privilege
 * D ecreed by Monarchs, was to that annext.
 * E nticing and entic’d to ev’ry fraud,
 * R enounced virtue, liberty and God.
 * H aunted by whores—he haunted them in turn
 * A ristocratic was this noble Goat
 * M onster of monsters, in pollution skill’d
 * I mmers’d in mischief, brothels, funds & banks
 * L ewd slave to lust,—afforded consolation;
 * T o mourning whores, and tory-lamentation.
 * O utdid all fools, tainted with royal name;
 * N one but fools, their wickedness proclaim.

From the Independent Chronicle (Boston), 16 October 1797, quoted in Carol Sue Humphrey, The Revolutionary Era: Primary Documents on Events from 1776 to 1800 (2003) p, 260.