A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress
| Author | Alexander Hamilton |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Followed by | The Farmer Refuted |
A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress was one of Alexander Hamilton's first published works, published in December 1774, while Hamilton was either a 19 or a 17-year-old student at King's College, later renamed Columbia University, in New York City.[1][2]
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Hamilton's thirty-five page reply to Farmer, addressed to "Friends and Countrymen," took two to three weeks to write and is signed "A Friend to America"; it responds systematically to Farmer's argument.[1][2][5] Hamilton warns against "the men who advise you to forsake the plain path, marked out for you by the congress" and states that "our representatives in general assembly cannot take any wise or better course to settle out differences, than our representatives in the continental congress have taken."[1]
After A Full Vindication was published, "Farmer" (Seabury) responded with another pamphlet, A View of the Controversy, dated December 24, 1774, but not announced until January 5, 1775.[6] Hamilton then responded with another pamphlet, The Farmer Refuted, on February 23, 1775.[1][6] With these two pamphlets, Hamilton "embraced wholeheartedly the 'radical' American side" of the growing conflict with the Kingdom of Great Britain.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Joseph C. Morton, Shapers of the Great Debate at the Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Biographical Dictionary (2006), Greenword: p. 125.
- ^ James Flexner, The Young Hamilton: A Biography (1978), Fordham University Press: p. 67.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-231-08900-5.
- ^ Ross N. Hebb, Samuel Seabury and Charles Inglis: Two Bishops, Two Churches (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (2010), p. 114.
- ^ a b c d Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton (2005), Penguin: pp. 57-58.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-231-08900-5.
Links to original sources
- Hamilton, Alexander (1774). A full vindication of the measures of the Congress. New York: James Rivington. Retrieved October 21, 2013.
- Seabury, Samuel (1774). Free thoughts on the proceedings of the Continental Congress. London: Richardson and Urquhart. Retrieved October 21, 2013.
