Alexander Hamilton Papers

From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 19 February 1800

To James McHenry

New York Feby 19th
1800

Dear Sir

I have read with great pleasure your letter to the Committee of Defence.1 It presents the subject in a very correct and interesting manner, such as I should expect much good from; if I did not begin to think with Chief Justice Elsworth, that there is in a government like ours a natural antipathy ⟨to⟩ system of every kind.2

Yrs. affecly

AH

Js. McHenry Esqr

ALS, St. Croix Museum, Cristiansted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands; ALS (photostat), James McHenry Papers, Library of Congress.

1. See McHenry to H, February 18, 1800, note 4.

2. Oliver Ellsworth.

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    From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 19 February 1800
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    McHenry, James
    Date
    19 February 1800

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    “From Alexander Hamilton to James McHenry, 19 February 1800,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-24-02-0181. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 24, November 1799 – June 1800, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976, pp. 237–238.]

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