Creating the United States

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Federalists Fragment During Partisan Presidential Campaign

Federalists Fragment During Partisan Presidential Campaign (099.04.00)

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Alexander Hamilton viciously turned on fellow Federalist John Adams during the presidential campaign of 1800. In this tract, Hamilton pointed out several actions which could “be traced to the ungovernable temper of Mr. Adams” that he believed proved Adams’s “unfitness for the station of Chief Magistrate.”

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“Mr. Adams never could forgive. . .”


Alexander Hamilton viciously turned on fellow Federalist John Adams during the presidential campaign of 1800. In this tract, Hamilton pointed out several actions which could “be traced to the ungovernable temper of Mr. Adams” that he believed proved Adams’s “unfitness for the station of Chief Magistrate.”