Reynolds Pamphlet

by Mint Editions

Lies often detected and refuted are still revived and repeated, in the hope that the refutation may have been forgotten or that the frequency and boldness of accusation may supply the place of truth and proof.

Even my private accounts with those institutions were laid open to the committee; and every possible facility given to the inquiry.

My enemies, finding no handle for their malice, abandoned the pursuit.

since justification seldom circulates as rapidly and as widely as slander.

The charge against me is a connection with one James Reynolds for purposes of improper pecuniary speculation. My real crime is an amorous connection with his wife, for a considerable time with his privity and connivance, if not originally brought on by a combination between the husband and wife with the design to extort money from me.

How could I know, but that from moment to moment he might, at the expence of his own disgrace, become the mercenary of a party, with whom to blast my character in any way is a favorite object!

Till he names the author the inevitable inference must be that he has fabricated the tale.

In 1804, following a dispute, Hamilton was killed in a duel by politician and lawyer Aaron Burr.