Hamilton Fish
Statesman and former United States Secretary of StateWikipedia
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Oct 17, 2026
WendellGUEST
Erasmus Pesine Smith, uh, going and kind of undoing a lot of British work in Japan in the 1870s as the number three or number four man in the State Department.
WendellGUEST
The strong ties that Seward and Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State Fish, have with Alexander II of Russia, uh, that result in the sale of Alaska to the United States, um, that result in Alexander II being the only national leader to support the Union in the Civil War, sending fleets, uh, to San Francisco and New York.
WendellGUEST
So, you know, it's-- there were other means of spreading these ideas, but I think the destruction of the Americans, of the American school [chuckles] proper by the Great Rapprochement, um, the transplantation of Cobdenism in a transatlantic sense from Britain to the United States in that period, and it really led to this just complete burial of protectionist thinking in the United States until Donald Trump revived it.
WendellGUEST
Uh, also a Wharton man, right? And Trump comes out of nowhere, um, even as early as 2014, digging up strange quotes about learning to think continentally, uh, getting mocked by the media for calling himself Tariff Man on stage until someone pulls out that, you know, McKinley, President McKinley, the apostle of protection, used that as a campaign slogan some, you know, one hundred and twenty years before.
WendellGUEST
Erasmus Pease Shine Smith, uh, going and kind of undoing a lot of British work in Japan in the eighteen seventies as the number three or number four man in the State Department.
WendellGUEST
The strong ties that Seward and Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State Fish, have with Alexander II of Russia, uh, that result in the sale of Alaska to the United States, um, that result in Alexander II being the only national leader to support the Union in the Civil War, sending fleets, uh, to San Francisco and New York.
WendellGUEST
So, you know, it's-- there were other means of spreading these ideas, but I think the destruction of the Americans, of the American school proper by the great rapprochement, um, the transplantation of Cobdenism in a transatlantic sense from Britain to the United States in that period, and it really led to this just complete burial of protectionist thinking in the United States until Donald Trump revived it.
WendellGUEST
Uh, also a Wharton man, right? And Trump comes out of nowhere, um, even as early as twenty fourteen, digging up strange quotes about learning to think continentally, uh, getting mocked by the media for calling himself Tariff Man on stage until someone pulls out that, you know, McKinley, President McKinley, the apostle of protection, used that as a campaign slogan some, you know, one hundred and twenty years before.
Elliot DragoCORRESPONDENT
By the post-Civil War years, Perth Amboy's population encapsulated the tragic and brutal legacy of slavery with the resilience of Black and white Americans willing to risk everything to ensure freedom.
Elliot DragoCORRESPONDENT
Within twenty-four hours of Secretary of State Hamilton Fish certifying the Fifteenth Amendment, Peterson exercised his freedom and citizenship by becoming the first Black American to vote in a United States election under the protection of the federal government.
Elliot DragoCORRESPONDENT
The election itself was a referendum to either revise or jettison Perth Amboy's town charter.
Elliot DragoCORRESPONDENT
Peterson explained, "As I advanced to the polls, one man offered me a ticket bearing the words 'Revised Charter,' and another one marked 'No Charter.' I thought I would not vote to give up our charter after holding it so long, so I chose a revised charter ballot." Ballot in hand, he went to Perth Amboy's city hall and cast his vote to amend rather than eliminate the town's charter.