Letter to Martin Van Buren [manuscript], 1857 May 31.

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Letter to Martin Van Buren [manuscript], 1857 May 31.

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Trist recollects a conversation with James Madison about a charge by a Hamilton biographer that he had abandoned Hamilton and falsely reported one of his speeches in the Constitutional Convention. Trist relates Madison's account of growing philosophical differences between Hamilton and Jefferson, and also discusses Jefferson's high estimate of Hamilton as a man.

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