THE WORKS

OF

ALEXANDER HAMILTON

VOL. IX.

OF

ALEXANDER HAMILTON

EDITED BY

HENRY CABOT LODGE

AUTHOR OF LIFE AND LETTERS OF GEORGE CABOT," A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH
COLONIES IN AMERICA,

ALEXANDER HAMILTON AND DANIEL WEBSTER (IN
AMERICAN STATESMEN SERIES), AND STUDIES IN HISTORY

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"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or
musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature,
by the hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power."
[HAMILTON-The Farmer Refuted, 1775, Et. 18.]

"We are laboring hard to establish in this country principles more and more national,
and free from all foreign ingredients, so that we may be neither Greeks nor Trojans,' but
truly Americans."-[HAMILTON TO KING, 1796, Æt. 39.]

VOL. IX.

NEW YORK & LONDON

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

The Knickerbocker Press

1886

HARVARD COLLEGE

JAN 3 1887

LIBRARY.

Bright-Fund.

Press of

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

New York

No. I.-GENERAL INTRODUCTION

Purpose of the series to show the utility of the Union to political
prosperity, etc.

No. II. CONCERNING DANGERS FROM FOREIGN FORCE AND

INFLUENCE.

General introduction to the subject.

No. III.-THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED

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The Union a protection against such dangers, by removing the usual
causes of just war, and by preventing violations of compacts and
treaties, on account of greater efficiency and better character than are
possessed by the State governments-The Union also better able to
settle international differences.

No. IV. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED

Unjust causes of war avoided-Greater ability to compel respect
of other nations and prevent their attacking us from jealousy of our
successful trade.

No. V. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED

Union secures us from foreign influence in the several States which
would exist if they were not united, and prevents their alliance with
foreign and rival nations.

No. VI. CONCERNING DANGERS FROM DISSENSIONS BE-

TWEEN THE STATES

Reasons for these dissensions if States remain disunited, and espe-

cially the dangers from personal ambitions in small States-Historical

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