American Sammelband. Including a scarce pamphlet on the Alexander Hamilton-John Adams controversy

AMERICAN SAMMELBAND: ALEXANDER HAMILTON & JOHN ADAMS

[OGDEN, UZAL.] A LETTER TO MAJOR GENERAL ALEXANDER HAMILTON, CONTAINING OBSERVATIONS ON HIS LETTER, CONCERNING THE PUBLIC CONDUCT AND CHARACTER OF JOHN ADAMS, ESQ., PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, BY A CITIZEN OF THESE STATES. NEW-YORK: PRINTED BY G. F. HOPKINS, 1800

8vo. Bound with 3 other 18th-centurt pamphlets and a fragment of another; one pamphlet lightly dampstained. Contemporary sheep-backed speckled boards, black morocco spine label lettered "Sermons"; extremities a bit worn.

As John Adams prepared for reelection to the presidency, he faced an intemperate publication made by a member of his own party, Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton's Letter from Alexander Hamilton, Concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq. President of the United States (New York: Printed for John Lang, by George F. Hopkins, 1800) did, as Adams predicted in a communication with Ogden, more harm to its author than to its target. Indeed, the editors of The Papers of Alexander Hamilton state that Hamiton's Letter "revealed that he had become an inept politician who was a burden to the party he had helped to create and hoped to lead."

The publication certainly contributed to Adams's defeat, and several others rushed to the President's defense, including Uzal Ogden, an Episcopal clergyman from New Jersey. 

Bound here with Ogden's scarce pamphlet are Ashbel Green, A Sermon delivered in … Philadelphia, on the 19th of February, 1795, being the Day of General Thanksgiving throughout the United States (Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1795; Evans 28765); William Duke, Remarks Upon Education, with Respect to the Learned Languages (Philadelphia: Ormrod & Conrad, 1795); and Samuel Harrison Smith, Remarks on Education: Illustrating the Close Connection between Virtue and Wisdom (Philadelphia: John Ormrod, 1798)