| Congress assembles under the Confederation | [155] |
| Treaty of Peace signed | [155] |
| Treaty of Alliance with France | [156] |
| Delay of the States in complying with the Requisitions of Congress | [156] |
| Washington addresses Letters to the States on the Subject of Finance, and completing their Quotas of Troops | [157] |
| Force of the Army | [158] |
| Discontents in the Army | [158] |
| The Newburgh Addresses | [159] |
| Congress votes an Establishment of Half-Pay for the Officers | [160] |
| Impracticable Adherence to the Principles of Civil Liberty | [161] |
| Provision for the Officers found to be inadequate | [162] |
| Congress recommends to the States to make Provision for the Officers and Soldiers | [162] |
| Pennsylvania places her Officers upon Half-Pay for Life | [163] |
| Congress pass a Resolve giving Half-Pay for Life to the Officers | [163] |
| Disappointment of the Officers | [164] |
| The Congress of the Confederation refuse to redeem the Pledge of the Revolutionary Congress | [164] |
| Officers offer to commute the Half-Pay for Life | [165] |
| Breach of Public Faith | [166] |
| Situation of Washington | [167] |
| Anonymous Address circulated among the Officers at Newburgh | [168] |
| Washington forbids an Assemblage at the Call of an Anonymous Paper | [168] |
| He appoints a Day to hear the Report of their Committee | [168] |
| The Officers again refer their Claims to the Consideration of Congress | [169] |
| Half-Pay commuted to Five Years' Full Pay | [170] |
| The Army disbanded | [170] |
| Value of the Votes which fixed the Compensation of the Officers | [171] |
CHAPTER II.
1781-1783.
Financial Difficulties of the Confederation.—Revolutionary Debt.—Revenue System of 1783.
| Public Debt of the United States | [172] |
| Congress recommend a Duty upon Importations | [173] |
| Office of Superintendent of Finance established | [174] |
| Rhode Island refuses to grant to Congress the Power of Levying Duties | [174] |
| Virginia repeals the Act by which she had granted this Power to Congress | [175] |
| No Means of paying the Public Debts | [175] |
| Another Plan for collecting Revenues recommended to the States | [176] |
| Strong Appeal to the People in Favor of it | [177] |
| Claims of the various Classes of the Public Creditors | [178] |
| Character of the United States involved | [179] |
| The Confederation a Government for Purposes of War | [181] |
| Its Great Defects | [181] |
| The Moral Feelings an Unsafe Reliance for the Operations of Government | [183] |
| Proofs of this in the History of the Confederation | [184] |
| Design of the Framers of the Revenue System | [185] |
| Claims of the Army | [186] |
| Wisdom of proposing a Scheme of Finance during the Continuance of the War | [186] |
| Influence of the Revenue System of 1783 | [188] |
| The System of 1783 different from the Present Constitution | [188] |
| Note on the Half-Pay for the Officers of the Revolution | [190] |
| Note on the Newburgh Addresses | [194] |
CHAPTER III.
1781-1783.
Opinions and Efforts of Washington, and of Hamilton.—Decline of the Confederation.
| Washington's Relations to the People of this Country | [200] |
| His Address to them on resigning his Office | [201] |
| His Views at the Close of the War | [202] |
| Hamilton's Opinions | [203] |
| His Advice and Suggestions | [204] |
| The Necessity for a Complete Sovereignty in Congress | [204] |
| Hamilton's Entry into Congress | [206] |
| Nature of a Federal Constitution not understood | [206] |
| Hamilton urges the Necessity of vesting the Appointment of Collectors of Revenue in the General Government | [208] |
| Ratio of Contribution by the States to the Treasury uncertain | [210] |
| Hamilton desires to change the Principle of the Confederation | [211] |
| Advises General Taxes to be collected under Continental Authority | [212] |
| An Attempt to substitute Specific Taxes on Land and Houses | [212] |
| It is determined to adopt Population as the Basis of Contribution | [213] |
| Hamilton's Views on a Peace Establishment | [214] |
| Committee to arrange the Details of such a System | [215] |
| An Army and Navy necessary | [216] |
| No Provision in the Articles of Confederation for their Maintenance during Peace | [216] |
| Hamilton advises Federal Provision for Defence | [219] |
| Congress driven from Philadelphia | [220] |
| Hamilton examines the Confederation | [221] |
| Its Defects | [222], [223] |
| He proposes to revise it | [224] |
| His Plan unsuccessful | [224] |
| Improvement in the Revenue System | [225] |
| Causes of the Decline of a National Spirit | [226] |
| Falling off in the Attendance of Members of Congress | [226] |
| Results of the Confederation | [228] |
| Its Defects displayed | [229] |
| Another Government necessary for the great Duties of Peace | [230] |
BOOK III.