From Alexander Hamilton to John Adams, 25 June 1792
From Alexander Hamilton
Philadelphia June 25 1792
My Dear Sir
You will find enclosed your account, which I take the liberty to send, lest by not adverting to the state of it, some inconvenience might ensue.1
You are I presume aware, that Mr. Clinton is to be your Competitor at the next election. I trust he could not have succeeded in any event, but the issue of his late election will not help his cause. Alas! Alas!
If you have seen some of the last numbers of the National Gazette, you will have perceived that the plot thickens & that something very like a serious design to subvert the Government discloses itself.2 With sincere respect & attachment I remain Dr sr / Yr. Obed ser
A Hamilton
RC (Adams Papers); internal address: “The Vice President”; endorsed: “Ansd. 4. Aug. 1792”; docketed by JQA: “A. Hamilton 25. June 1792.”
1. Not found. For payment of JA’s salary, see his 16 Sept. 1795 letter to Oliver Wolcott Jr., and note 1, below.
2. A report in the Philadelphia National Gazette, 11 June 1792, condemned the U.S. government for implementing the Whiskey Act while neglecting western farmers’ interests. Recommending a reduction in duties, the Gazette echoed calls for the law either to “be totally repealed, or fully executed.” Subsequent issues of 18 and 21 June hammered in the critique, claiming that enforcement of the legislation gave “the odious appearance of tyranny, first to load the citizens with intolerable burdens, and then, under the sanction of law, to harrass them into submission.”