Hamilton

" No person except a natural-born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President"--Article II, Section 1, the Constitution of the United States.

The phrase " or a Citizen of the United States at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution" is said to be the only provision in that document inserted in respect to one man. That man was Alexander Hamilton, who, born on the island of Nevis in the West Indies, came to New York at the age of 15, at 20 was a lieutenant colonel on the staff of General Washington, became Secretary of the Treasury in the first cabinet, wrote Washington's Farewell Address.

In his honor there assembled last week at the south entrance of the Treasury Building in Washington, some 5,000 citizens, several members of the Cabinet, Senators, the President and Mrs. Harding to unveil a statue to the man who " put the seal of sanctity upon financial honor."

A great-grandson of Hamilton made an invocation, a great-great-granddaughter unveiled the statue, and a great-great-great grandson pronounced the benediction.

Secretary Mellon, in charge of the ceremonies, spoke briefly of the first Secretary of the Treasury as its greatest.

Addressing the assemblage, President Harding eulogized Hamilton and his " seemingly inspired fear of factionalism."

"We have factions of hatred and prejudice and violence. . . No nation will survive where this factionalism is endured. . . It was Hamilton's conception that the Federal influence would crush out the factions. . . . Time has brought our appraisal of him but of the mists of misunderstanding and given us a measure of his true greatness,"