1Introductory Note: The Examination Number I, [17 December 1801] (Hamilton Papers)
This is the first of a series of eighteen articles entitled “The Examination” and signed by “Lucius Crassus.” They appeared in the New-York Evening Post during the winter of 1801–1802 and were designed to refute the points raised by Thomas Jefferson in his first annual message to Congress on December 8, 1801. The New-York Evening Post printed the first installment of “The Examination” on...
2The Examination Number I, [17 December 1801] (Hamilton Papers)
Instead of delivering a speech to the House of Congress, at the opening of the present session, the President has thought fit to transmit a Message . Whether this has proceeded from pride or from humility, from a temperate love of reform, or from a wild spirit of innovation, is submitted to the conjectures of the curious. A single observation shall be indulged—since all agree, that he is...