Schuyler Defeated

PHILIP
Look! Grampa’s in the paper! ‘War Hero Philip
Schuyler loses Senate seat to young upstart
Aaron Burr!’
Grampa just lost his seat in the Senate.
ELIZA
Sometimes that’s how it goes.
PHILIP
Daddy’s gonna find out any minute.
ELIZA
I’m sure he already knows.
PHILIP
Further down,
PHILIP AND ELIZA
Further down,
PHILIP
“Let’s meet the newest Senator from New
York…”
ELIZA
New York—
PHILIP AND ELIZA
Our Senator!...
HAMILTON
Burr!
HAMILTON
Since when are you a Democratic-Republican?
BURR
Since being one put me on the up and up
again.
HAMILTON
No one knows who you are or what you do.
BURR
They don’t need to know me. They don’t
like you.
HAMILTON
Excuse me?
BURR
Oh, Wall Street thinks you’re great.
You’ll always be adored by the things you
create.
But upstate,
HAMILTON
Wait.
BURR
People think you’re crooked!
And Schuyler’s seat was up for grabs, so I
took it.
HAMILTON
I’ve always considered you a friend.
BURR
I don’t see why that has to end!
HAMILTON
You changed parties to run against my
father-in-law.
BURR
I changed parties to seize the opportunity
I saw.
I swear, your pride will be the death of us all!
Beware: it goeth before the fall…