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That young man was Alexander Hamilton, who, as early as 1781, put forth his views on the subject in a series of papers, under the title of The Continentalist. He was then only twenty-four years of age, yet no man in the country appeared to have clearer views of what constituted true national policy, than he.
I should die if I passed another day unknown to the man who gives me the greatest pleasures of my life I have every line you have had printed that can be found, and half the booksellers in the country searching for the lost copies of the Continentalist I should die, I say, if you were longer ignorant that I have the intelligence, the ambition, and the erudition to admire you above all men, living or dead.
It is to this source we are to trace many of the fatal mistakes which have so deeply endangered the common cause; particularly that defect a want of power in Congress." The Continentalist was published in the New York Packet, printed at Fishkill, in Duchess county, and the series were devoted chiefly to a discussion of the defects of the confederation.
There being no immediate prospect of fighting, he retired again to the library and began that series of papers called The Continentalist, which were read as attentively as if peace had come.
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