Excerpt from The Works of Alexander Hamilton, Vol. 1: Containing His Correspondence, and His Political and Official Writings, Exclusive of the Federalist, Civil and Military N 0 one has profited by these Changed conditions more than Hamilton. As the history of the United States has been investigated and developed, Hamil ton has loomed ever larger upon the receding horizon of the days when that history began. His com manding figure has grown ever more luminous and more Vital as the years have passed by, and the Change is marked even in the eighteen which have elapsed since this edition was first published. He has been the subject of many biographies and in these later days has become the hero of fiction, which has discovered the romantic Side of his career, and has made his name and deeds familiar to many to whom history is only a task. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.