The agitation against the Jay treaty grew daily more dangerous, and the attacks on the Administration became more virulent. Hamilton did all he could to stem the tide, but the popular feeling was such that he was actually stoned at a public meeting. Four days later he entered the field in a more formidable manner, by publishing the first of the "Camillus" essays, which were continued throughout the year. Gradually the opposition concentrated their whole fire upon Hamilton, who kept up his chief argument in "Camillus," and replied to his antagonists, driving one after another from the field, as "Philo-Camillus." These last papers of "Philo-Camillus" add nothing to the main body of argument, are in their nature ephemeral, and exhibit only the writer's power of retort. It does not seem necessary to reprint them.

Henry Cabot Lodge, The Works of Alexander Hamilton, 1904

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