CALUMNIES REPUDIATED. HAMILTON'S CONDUCT AS SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY VINDICATED. JAMES A. HAMILTON. NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER & CO., 654 BROADWAY. MARTIN VAN BUREN'S CALUMNIES REPUDIATED. HAMILTON'S CONDUCT AS SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, VINDICATED. INQUIRY Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States, by the late ex-President Martin Van Buren. 1867. WE do not intend to review this work, but to refer to such parts of it as charge Alexander Hamilton with having (p. 203) "been faithless to one of the most sacred trusts that can be placed in man." P. 214: "Hamilton did more than any one-I had almost said, than all his contemporaries-to counteract the will of the people, and to subvert, by undermining, the Constitution of their choice." P. 215: "Hamilton's course was an outrage upon liberty and a crime against free government." It is asserted (p. 234) "of the great crisis in our national affairs, the fourth crisis of our Government was Hamilton's attempt to make of the Government which had been established under it " (the Constitution) "a delusion, and the Constitution a sham, to pave the way for its overthrow." (The italics are ours.) It is remarkable that a gentleman, who, as Senator, VicePresident, and President of the United States, had become familiar with the legislation of the nation, the messages of its Presidents, and the published letters of Mr. Jefferson, should have made such statements, when that legislation, those documents and letters, establish the fact that some, if not all, the measures referred to were sanctioned as well by Congress again and again, as by Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Madison, |