1From Alexander Hamilton to the Public Creditors of the State of New York, [30 September 1782] (Hamilton Papers)
The appellation by which we have chosen to address you, indicates at once the broad and equitable basis upon which we wish to unite the influence and efforts of those who are Creditors to the Public, to obtain that justice, which the necessities of many, and the rights of all demand. Whatever distinctions may characterize the different classes of Creditors, either of the United States, or of...