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• Hamilton Chronology.
• Preface to Second Edition
• Preface
• A Full Vindication
• The Farmer Refuted
• Remarks On the Quebec Bill
• No. I
• No. Ii
• Publius
• The Government and the Constitution
• The Continentalist
• Resolutions For a General Convention of the States
• Speeches and Resolutions In Congress
• Open Debate
• Mutiny of Troops
• Resolutions For a General Convention
• Mutiny of the Troops
• Mutiny of the Troops
• Vindication of Congress
• Address of the Annapolis Convention
• Address of the Annapolis Convention 1 1786
• Resolutions Offered In the Legislature of New York
• Federal Convention
• Propositions For a Constitution of Government 1
• Constitution of Government By the People of the United States of America First Draught of Hamilton, 1787
• Brief of Speech On Submitting His Plan of Constitution 1
• Speeches In the Federal Convention
• Impressions As to the New Constitution 1
• Comments On the Opposition to the Constitution
• Appendix

APPENDIX

Since the note to the Vindication of Congress (p. 3) was printed, a thorough search among the Hamilton papers has shown that all that exists of the Vindication among the original MSS. has been printed, with the exception of the following additional paragraph:

“It may appear extraordinary that these observations should be introductory to remarks on the transaction which at this time principally engages the public attention, to wit, the removal of Congress from this city; but there is a chain of ideas which naturally connects the general opinion of Congress with the judgment to be passed upon their conduct in this particular instance. This chain will easily be traced by men of discernment.”

Nothing has been discovered to show where Mr. J.C. Hamilton obtained the extracts, apparently from the Vindication, given in his History of the Republic, ii., 564 et seq.