The resolution received decent interment by reference to a committee, with no one objecting.

The practical conclusion of the matter was that Hamilton had beaten his enemies once more and beaten them thoroughly.
Before resigning his office, Hamilton added still another great achievement to his record of illustrious service in establishing public authority.

The violent agitation against the excise act promoted by the Jeffersonians naturally tended to forcible resistance.

One of the counts of Jefferson's indictment of Hamilton's policy which had been presented to Washington was that the excise law was "of odious character ...

committing the authority of the Government in parts where resistance is most probable and coercion least practicable." The parts thus referred to were the mountains of western Pennsylvania.