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For Washington, Hamilton Confirms Receipt of Hessian Troop Movement Intelligence.Washington’s End-Game: Pushing Southern States to Keep Pressure Up for Honorable Peace.“Can talents atone for such turpitude? Can wisdom reside with such Gullibility?” John Adams Reacts to the “Reynolds Pamphlet”:.Congress Begs the States for the Power to Regulate Trade and Negotiate Treaties.Hamilton’s Back-Door Implementation of His Report on Manufactures Tariff Proposals, in Jefferson-Signed Act of Congress Raising Funds to Protect the Nation’s Frontier.Alexander Hamilton’s Initial Steps to Create a National Banking System.To Avoid Abuse from “bigots in religion.politics, or.medicine,” Thomas Jefferson Declines to Publish Benjamin Rush’s Private Correspondence.President George Washington Announces the Formation of the Treasury Department.Washington Cryptically Dreams of Resigning, Feigns Insult and Teases McHenry for Delayed Answer to Queries on Funding the Army.Hamilton Supports Anyone but Jefferson to Replace Washington as President.“You are certainly a little sorceress and have bewitched me” One of Hamilton’s Most Revealing Love Letters to Eliza:.
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George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation.Science, Technology, and Transportation.Revolution and Founding Fathers (1765 - 1784).Inauguration and State of the Union Addresses.Rather than incriminate himself, Hamilton chose to air his own dirty laundry. He presented Hamilton with a choice: either admit to the affair or implicate himself in James’ mess.
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By November 1792, James was locked up for his role in a plot that involved overdue back wages for war veterans. James had already roped him into another scandal. Again, Hamilton agreed to end to the scandalous affair. Of course, he received one final payment for his silence, receiving more than $1,300 in total. On May 2, 1792, James had a change of heart and decided to discontinue Hamiton’s visits. Even after James acquired $1,000 in blackmail money from Hamilton, he insisted that the politician carry on with his visitations “as a friend” in exchange for more cash. While Maria’s letter forewarned Hamilton of her husband’s blackmail attempts, James’ letter actually begged Hamilton to continue his forbidden visits. But the Reynolds’ wouldn’t give up that easily, and each of them desperately wrote letters to Hamilton. Emotional blackmailīy the time that Hamilton became wise to the Reynolds’ scheme, he decided to stop participating in the relationship in the fall of 1791. In his own words, Hamilton realized that Maria and James were involved in a plan to “extort money from me.” Although it wasn’t unusual at that time to challenge each other to a pistol duel, James chose to extort some major cash instead. In fact, James would even encourage their rendezvous in order to gain more blackmail money. Shockingly, her husband knew about the scandal for the entire time and used his knowledge to blackmail Hamilton. As Maria led Hamilton upstairs, he later stated that “Some conversation ensued from which it was quickly apparent that other than pecuniary consolation would be acceptable.” Their sordid affair would continue until June 1792.ĭuring the course of their relationship, Hamilton was pulled into a ring of deception and lies by both Maria and her husband. Reynold’s lodging house, it became clear that his visit was about more than monetary aid. Since he didn’t have any cash on him at the time, he jotted down her address to drop off some money to assist her. Claiming that her husband James Reynolds had left her, she asked Hamilton for financial assistance. Maria Reynolds, then 23 years old, approached 34-year-old married Alexander Hamilton on a hot summers day in Philidelphia, Pennsylvania.