Joel Roberts Poinsett, Secretary of War, 1838 framed astrology its terraced shoulders shouldering past

its terraced shoulders shouldering past a constellation of lesser rooftops

Alexander Hamilton 198 renders the Treasury's first architect in the careful linework reserved for men whose ideas outlived their duels — the West Indian orphan who argued a national bank into being and signed his Federalist essays with the cool nerve of someone who knew the republic's ledgers would decide its fate

unshowy gaze of the man about to inherit it

January 1842

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Joel Roberts Poinsett, Secretary of War, 1838 framed astrology its terraced shoulders shouldering pastJoel Roberts Poinsett, Secretary of War, 1838. A portrait of the South Carolinian diplomat turned cabinet officer mid tenure under Van Buren, his War Department overseeing the bitter machinery of Cherokee removal and the Second Seminole War Manifest Destiny rendered as policy, signed in a careful hand. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional