The records of this huge transactio

The records of this huge transaction (which was the first really great achievement of nascent capitalism in the United Stated), if they had been kept intact, would constitute, perhaps, the most wonderful single collection on economic history ever possessed by any country. Wher they complete, they would form a veritable Domesday Book of the politics during the first years of the new government . But unfortunately they are not complete. The records of Hamilton’s administration at the Treasury itself seem to have largely disappeared, and the records of the loan offices in the several states are generally fragmentary, although in one or two instances they are indeed monumental.