I parried it by telling him there was no vacancy in my immediate Office and that the Cl appointment of Clerks in the other branches of the department was left to the chiefs of the respective branches. (This confrontation is stylized in the musical's song "We Know," though Miranda replaces the real-life trio with the higher-profile figures of Jefferson, Madison, and Burr.) "The Reynolds Pamphlet" is the fourteenth song from Act 2 of the musical Hamilton, based on the life of Alexander Hamilton, which premiered on Broadway in 2015. He travelled over the same ground as before, and again concluded with the same vague claim of satisfaction, but without specifying the kind, which would content him. I am much mistaken if the view which has been taken of the subject is not sufficient, without any thing further, to establish my innocence with every discerning and fair mind. The result was a complete demonstration that the suspicions which had been entertained were groundless. It might not even perhaps be difficult to establish, ​that it came under the eye of Mr. Giles, and that he discarded it as the plain case of a private amour unconnected with any thing that was the proper subject of a public attack. Though I can have no doubt of the friendly intention of Mr. Wolcott, if the suggestion of Clingman in this particular be taken as true; yet from the condition of secrecy which was annexed to my communication, there is the strongest reason to conclude it is not true. "There seems little question that she approached Hamilton as part of an extortion racket, delivering an adept performance as a despairing woman" at her husband's behest, Ron Chernow concludes in his biography Alexander Hamilton. So it came as a bit of a surprise when a shady and unscrupulous Republican newspaperman, James Callender, suddenly announced that he'd write an expose of the "truth" about Hamilton's tenure as Treasury Secretary - and revealed that he had somehow gotten his hands on the Reynolds documents. It was conducted by a Committee of  3 members of the House of Representatives most of them my political adversaries some of them of the most active part and one of them (Mr. Giles from Virginia) the very person who had commenced the attack. Mrs. Reynolds had informed me with that art of which she was so much mistress that Reynolds had again become very discontented and violent that he had treated her ill and thrown out various threats of ⟨———⟩ the disclosure. 3   It appears on all hands that Reynolds and Clingman were detected by the Comptroller of the Treasury in the contemptible crime of suborning a witness to swear to the death of. “I rely on your befriending me if there should any thing offer that should be to my advantage as you express a wish to befriend me.”. XIV. The affidavit of the respectable Citizen No. Although H had completed the untitled draft of the document printed above before the end of July, 1797, he had to delay publication until he had collected the supporting documents which he included in the appendix. The transactions between the several banks and the treasury were scrutinized. In answer to this I sent him a note, or message desiring him to call upon me at my office, which I think he did the same day. But could it be expected, that I should so debase myself as to think it necessary to my vindication to be confronted with a person such as Reynolds? If they supposed it necessary to the elucidation of the affair, why did not they bring her forward? Two days after, the 17th of December, he wrote me the letter (No. And by his letter to Clingman of the 13 of December, after he was released from prison, it also appears that he was actuated by a spirit of revenge against me; for he declares that he will have satisfaction from me at all events; adding, as addressed to Clingman, “And you only I trust.”25. This last method of accounting for his knowledge would be conclusive on the sincerity and genuineness of the defence. ‘Twas from them that might have been learnt the true nature of the transaction. A principal engine, by which this spirit endeavours to accomplish its purposes is that of calumny. Yet in clubbing their different items of information as to the supplies of money which Reynolds received from me, what do they amount to? It shews plainly the disregard of truth and the malice by which the parties were actuated. 36. On May 6, 1793, Henry Lee wrote to H from Richmond, Virginia: “Was I with you I would talk an hour with doors bolted & windows shut, as my heart is much afflicted by some whispers which I have heard.” H’s letter to Lee, which was dated June 15, 1793, has not been found. 29. A Philadelphia directory for 1791 states that a “Mrs. I ventured to believe, from the appearances on their part at closing our former interview on the subject, that their answers would have been both cordial and explicit. “Resolved, That the charge exhibited in the memorial, against the secretary of the treasury, ​relative to the purchase of the pension of Baron de Glaubeck is wholly illiberal and groundless.”[1]. 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. Had I been conscious that I had any thing to fear from Reynolds of the nature which has been pretended, should I have warned Mr. Seckel against having any thing to do with them? Note: The annotations to this document, and any other The appearance of duplicity incensed me; but resolving to proceed with caution and moderation, I thought the first proper step was to inquire of the gentlemen whether the paper was genuine. Thus has my desire to destroy this slander, completely, led me to a more copious and particular examination of it, than I am sure was necessary. Yet in clubbing their different items of information as to the supplies of money which Reynolds received from me, what do they amount to? There is no need, by elaborate deductions from parts of their assertions, to endeavour to establish what their assertions collectively affirm in express terms. But there is no need to be over minute. that my note, in these words, was an answer: “To-morrow what is requested will be done. The threats alluded to must be those of being able to hang the Secretary of the Treasury. He travelled over the same ground as before, and again concluded with the same vague claim of satisfaction, but without specifying the kind, which would content him.—It was easy to understand that he wanted money, and to prevent an explosion, I resolved to ​gratify him. In the gratification of this baleful spirit, we not only hear the jacobin news-papers continually ring with odious insinuations and charges against many of our most virtuous citizens; but, not satisfied with this, a measure new in this country has been lately adopted to give greater efficacy to the system of defamation—periodical pamphlets issue from the same presses, full freighted with misrepresentation and falshood, artfully calculated to hold up the opponents of the Faction to the jealousy and distrust of the present generation and if possible, to transmit their names with dishonor to posterity. The letter No. It appears from No. But exclusive of this, it is known and might easily be proved, that Reynolds was considerably in debt! Or, as it’s commonly known, the Reynolds Pamphlet. (b)) intimating a discovery by her husband. “Resolved, That the reasons assigned by the secretary of the treasury, for refusing payment of the warrants referred to in the memorial, are fully sufficient to justify his conduct; and that in the whole course of this transaction, the secretary and other officers of the treasury, have acted a meritorious part towards the public. The charge which this same Fraunces afterwards preferred against ​me to the House of Representatives, and the fate of it, have already been mentioned. Instead of encouraging Mr. Seckel to become their bail I advised him to have nothing to do with them as being bad and dangerous men. To evince still more clearly the very culpable odious temper with which the publication has been made I subjoinshall annex the affidavits of Mr. Webster and myself to disprove the strange story fabricated in the advertisement of it. For what?—why, it is said, to tear up the last twig of jealousy—but when I knew that I possessed written documents which were decisive, how could I foresee that any twig of jealousy would remain?