Jefferson's Opinion of Alexander Hamilton

I have often offered harsh words regarding Alexander Hamilton, and aside from some of his writings in the Federalist Papers (in hopes to convince the Anti-Federalists of New York to accept a more centralized government than was offered by the Articles of Confederation), his life was a perfect example of the mindset of some people of that era that today would fit right in with the leftist-progressive agenda. Alexander Hamilton believed in deficit spending, centralized banking, and the federal government having a degree of control over the private sector. It turns out that I am not the only person who Hamilton was able to turn the stomach of. Thomas Jefferson also recognized Hamilton's preference of a tyrannical government. . .

"Hamilton was indeed a singular character. Of acute understanding, disinterested, honest, and honorable in all private transactions, amiable in society, and duly valuing virtue in private life, yet so bewitched & perverted by the British example, as to be under thoro' conviction that corruption was essential to the government of a nation." --Thomas Jefferson, on Alexander Hamilton in The Anas

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