CSPAN3 Lectures In History August 12, 2014
This letter, it was a matter of National Honor. American treatment of loyalists after the war would say a lot about the character of the new nation and hamilton wanted the nation to start off on the right foot. So hamilton was thinking about National Honor almost from the launching of the new nations, but he really concerned himself with the preservation of National Honor when he became the nations first secretary of the treasury in 1789. Hamilton was the man responsible for dealing with the new nations enormous disorganized war debts so essentially he was responsible for establishing national...