NOTHING mattered more to Hamilton than protecting and strengthening the Union and none other than Washington did more to create it.
Funny. One could similarly argue that no framer did more than Hamilton to sow the seeds of sectional division that nearly destroyed that same union in the Civil War.
And to paraphrase John Adams, Hamilton's attempts to essentially draw the United States into the Napoleonic Wars on Britain's side as a means of strengthening the union were tantamount to insanity.
No doubt that strengthening the new nation pissed off the “states-rights” and those profiting from the collapse of national power. Thank God, his policies strengthened the nation so much that the RAT Rebellion (which owed more to Jefferson’s thought than anyone particularly Hamilton) was defeated never to raise its ugly head again.
Hamilton NEVER tried to ally the US to Britain EVER. That is the kind of lie which has sullied his reputation for over two hundred years. He ALWAYS maintained that allying with either European power would be destructive to our nation particularly is government finances since the whole system was conceived to depend upon peace.
I am surprised that you would try and peddle such an obvious canard which surely you know is false. Are you unaware that Hamilton was the principle author of W’s Farewell Address which stipulated that alliance was unwise and warned that such an alliance was likely to lead to splitting the country.
Thwarting the Jeffersonians’ schemes with France is not the same as “...draw[ing] the United States into the Napoleonic Wars on Britain’s side...” nor is criticizing Adams blunders in diplomacy with the Frence. Hamilton would agree that alliance with England would have been “insanity”. There is not a shred of evidence honestly evaluated which would support your contention or his enemies. But truth rarely mattered when H was being attacked.