Source: “Purchase of Louisiana,” New-York Evening Post, July 5, 1803, Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-26-02-0001-0101. At length the business of New-Orleans has terminated favourably to this
Source: The Federalist: The Gideon Edition, eds. George W. Carey and James McClellan (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2001), 442–451. IN THE course of the foregoing review of the Constitution, I have
Source: The Federalist No. 65, [7 March 1788], No. 68, [12 March 1788], No. 70, [15 March 1788], No. 71, [18 March 1788], No. 72, [19 March 1788], Founders Online,
LETTER I. It has from the first establishment of your present constitution been predicted, that every occasion of serious embarrassment which should occur in the affairs of the government –
Sir, The disagreeable crisis at which matters have lately arrived in some of the western counties of Pennsylvania, with regard to the laws laying duties on spirits distilled within the
Sir, I found Young La Fayette here and delivered him your Letter which much relieved him. I fancy you will see him on the first day of April. Mr. Livingston’s
Dear Edward This just serves to acknowledge receipt of yours per Cap Lowndes which was delivered me yesterday, the truth of Cap Lightbowen & Lowndes information is now verifyd by
My Dear Sir Believing that I possess a share of your personal friendship and confidence and yielding to that which I feel towards you—persuaded also that our political creed is
Source: “To James Madison from Alexander Hamilton, [19 July] 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-11-02-0130 and “To Alexander Hamilton from James Madison, [20 July 1788],” Founders Online, National Archives, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-11-02-0131 From Alexander Hamilton to
The second and principal objection to the proclamation [of Neutrality], namely, that it is inconsistent with the treaties between the United States and France, will now be examined… The alliance
