“A great meeting was held in the "Fields" [1] (July 6, 1774), to force the hand of the Tory Assembly in the matter of joining the other colonies in calling a Congress. Hamilton attended, and after listening to the speeches was so strongly impressed with what was left unsaid that he worked his way to the platform and began an impassioned argument for the colonial side. Below the normal stature and of slender form, he looked even younger than his seventeen years, but was recognized by the crowd as a collegian and received with great enthusiasm.””
Quotes by Charles A. Conant
“In a letter to Gouverneur Morris (February 27, 1802), he drops into the following gloomy forebodings:”
Charles A. Conant
Charles A. Conant was an American economist, author, and journalist known for his influential writings on finance and monetary policy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in 1861, he became...