LIFE

OF

ALEXANDER HAMILTON.

A History of the Republic

OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

AS TRACED IN HIS

WRITINGS AND IN THOSE OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES.

BY

JOHN C. HAMILTON.

ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS PORTRAITS.

VOLUME I.

"Neque enim est ulla res, in qua propius ad Deorum numen virtus accedat humana,
quam civitates aut condere novas aut conservare jam conditas."- Cicero, De Repub.

BOSTON:

HOUGHTON, OSGOOD AND COMPANY.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge.

1879.