Persuaded as the Secretary is, that the proper funding of the present debt will render it a national blessing; yet he is so far from acceding to the position, in the latitude in which it is sometimes laid down, that " public debts are public benefits,"... Martin Van Buren's Calumnies Repudiated: Hamilton's Conduct as Secretary of ... - Page 16 by James Alexander Hamilton - 1870 - 54 pages Full view - About this book