From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, 5 August 1795
To Oliver Wolcott, Junior
New York Aug 5. 1795
Dr. Sir
I have received yours of 3d instant.1 You make no mention of having received one from me inclosing another for the Attorney General2 in which I tell him that I will attend the cause which involves the question respecting direct taxes3 when notified of the time it will come on.
The silence of your letter makes me fear it may have miscarried.
I do not wonder at what you tell me of the author of a certain piece.4 That man is too cunning to be wise. I have been so much in the habit of seeing him mistaken that I hold his opinion cheap.
Yrs. truly
A Hamilton
Oliver Wolcott Esq
ALS, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford.
1. Letter not found.
2. H’s letter to William Bradford has not been found, but see Bradford to H, August 4, 1795.
3. For information on the Carriage Tax case (Hylton v United States), see , 171–84, and the , forthcoming volumes. See also Tench Coxe to H, January 14, 19, 1795; H to Coxe, January 26, 1795; Bradford to H, July 2, August 4, 1795; Edmund Randolph to H, July 21, 1795; Wolcott to H, July 28, 1795.
4. At the end of this sentence in the MS an asterisk appears. At the bottom of this letter Wolcott wrote: “*Tench Coxe author of a piece signed Juriscola. O W.” Coxe wrote four articles which he signed “Juricola” (rather than “Juriscola”). These articles, which are entitled “An Examination of the pending Treaty with Great Britain” and are addressed “To the President of the United States of America,” appeared in The Philadelphia Gazette and Universal Daily Advertiser, July 31, August 4, 8, 12, 1795.