Creating the United States

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Hamilton’s Political Attack on Adams

Hamilton’s Political Attack on Adams (99.03.00)

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