Alexander Hamilton Papers

From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [17 February 1797]

To Oliver Wolcott, Junior

[New York, February 17, 1797]

I groan My Dr. Sir at the disgraceful course of our affairs. I pity all those who are officially in their vortex. The behaviour of Congress in the present crisis is a new political phœnomenon. They must be severally arraigned before the Bar of the Public. How unfortunate that our friends suffer themselves by their passiveness to be confounded in the guilt.

Yrs. truly

A H

Feby. 17. 1797

ALS, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford.

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    From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [17 February 1797]
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    Wolcott, Oliver, Jr.
    Date
    17 February 1797

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    “From Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Junior, [17 February 1797],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-20-02-0329. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 20, January 1796 – March 1797, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1974, p. 516.]

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