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The vital words of Alexander Hamilton, including essays, private correspondence, and public statements. Alexander Hamilton is best known as the United States’ first Secretary of the Treasury and the author of the majority of The Federalist Papers, a series of essays that outlined the basic concepts and premises of the U.S. Constitution. Since the founding of the nation, these essays have been used by the U.S. Supreme Court as an authoritative guide to the intentions of the Founding Fathers in cases involving constitutional interpretation. Included in this volume are five of the most important essays from The Federalist Papers, plus personal correspondence and public statements from across Hamilton’s career as a statesman.

Excerpt from An Oration, Commemorative of the Late Major-General Alexander Hamilton: Pronounced Before the New-York State Society of the Cincinnati, on Tuesday, the 31st July, 1804 I'resages of his future eminence were evolved by the first buddings of intellect in alexander hamilton. The course of the boy, like that of the man, was ardent, rapid, and beyond the reach of his contemporaries. History will hereafter relate that he was numbered among Statesmen at an age when in others the rudiments of character are scarcely visible. In the contest with great-britain, which called forth every talent and every passion, his juvenile pen asserted the claims of the colonies, against writers from whom it would derogate to say that they were merely respectable. An un known antagonist, whose thrust was neither to be repelled nor parried, excited inquiry and when he began to be discovered, the effect was apparently? So disproportioned to the cause, that his papers were ascribed to a statesman who then held a happy sway in the councils of his'country, who has since rendered her the most essential services; and who still lives to adorn her name* But the truth could not long be concealed. The powers of hamilton created their own evidence and America saw, with astonishment, a lad of seventeen in the rank of her advocates, at a time when her advocates were pa triots and sages. A distinction thus nobly acquired, and ably maintained, was a pledge to the common wealth, which he lost no time in redeeming. His first. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Works of Alexander Hamilton, Vol. 1: Containing His Correspondence, and His Political and Official Writings, Exclusive of the Federalist, Civil and Military N 0 one has profited by these Changed conditions more than Hamilton. As the history of the United States has been investigated and developed, Hamil ton has loomed ever larger upon the receding horizon of the days when that history began. His com manding figure has grown ever more luminous and more Vital as the years have passed by, and the Change is marked even in the eighteen which have elapsed since this edition was first published. He has been the subject of many biographies and in these later days has become the hero of fiction, which has discovered the romantic Side of his career, and has made his name and deeds familiar to many to whom history is only a task. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.