The Missing Scene in that “Hamilton” Play on Broadway

When the Federalist Party, led by Alexander Hamilton, negotiated the “Jay Treaty” (ratified in 1797) with England it was immensely unpopular with the American public.  Madison and Jefferson and the Jeffersonians in all the states opposed it.  So when Alexander Hamilton tried to sell the treaty to a New York audience in 1795, writes Gregory May in his new book, Jefferson’s Treasure: How Albert Gallatin Saved the New Nation from Debt (p. 61), “an angry outdoor crowd of treaty protesters in New York . . . stoned him.”

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3:16 pm on August 26, 2018