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[HAMILTON, Alexander]. Two issues of Gazette of the United States, New York: John Fenno, 31 October 1789 and 20 January 1790. 2 issues, together 8 pages, folio.. IN GOOD CONDITION.
TWO ISSUES OF THE FAMED FEDERALIST ORGAN, one carrying an essay by John Adams and one with a report on Hamilton's pivotal Report on the Public Credit. Hamilton backed John Fenno's Gazette and used it to advocate the Federalist cause during the often vicious newspaper wars of the 1790s. Jefferson had sent his own scribbler's into the fray, backing Benjamin Franklin Bache's General Advertiser, and the more outlandish Philip Freneau's National Gazette. Here, Fennno's Saturday, 31 October 1789 issue contains part of John Adams's Twenty-six Letters Upon Interesting Subjects (Letter VII), his epistolary history of the American Revolution, written during his mission to Holland in 1789. Not coincidentally, Fenno was publishing an edition of Twenty-six Letters in 1789. The 1790 issue summarizes Hamilton's plans for strengthening the nation's credit, a synopsis likely written by Hamilton himself, who often ghosted important pieces for the Gazette.
TWO ISSUES OF THE FAMED FEDERALIST ORGAN, one carrying an essay by John Adams and one with a report on Hamilton's pivotal Report on the Public Credit. Hamilton backed John Fenno's Gazette and used it to advocate the Federalist cause during the often vicious newspaper wars of the 1790s. Jefferson had sent his own scribbler's into the fray, backing Benjamin Franklin Bache's General Advertiser, and the more outlandish Philip Freneau's National Gazette. Here, Fennno's Saturday, 31 October 1789 issue contains part of John Adams's Twenty-six Letters Upon Interesting Subjects (Letter VII), his epistolary history of the American Revolution, written during his mission to Holland in 1789. Not coincidentally, Fenno was publishing an edition of Twenty-six Letters in 1789. The 1790 issue summarizes Hamilton's plans for strengthening the nation's credit, a synopsis likely written by Hamilton himself, who often ghosted important pieces for the Gazette.