1From Alexander Hamilton to Edward Carrington, 26 May 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
Believing that I possess a share of your personal friendship and confidence and yielding to that which I feel towards you—persuaded also that our political creed is the same on , 1st the necessity of to the respectability and happiness of this Country and 2 the necessity of an general government to maintain that Union—I have concluded to unbosom myself to you on the present state of political...