Gouverneur Morris
Books
- The Officers at Newburgh George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Crisis That Forged the American Republic · Liszt Think
In March 1783, peace had been signed but the Continental Army remained unpaid and restless at Newburgh. Two anonymous addresses circulated through camp, urging officers to defy Congress and march on Philadelphia.
- The Anonymous Addresses…gress into granting the impost—the federal taxing power that nationalists had sought for years. Hamilton was not alone in this calculation. Gouverneur Morris, Robert Morris’s assistant and a sharp advocate for a stronger national government, had written in similar terms. The army’s desperation wa…
- The General’s Unwanted Command…sis. Its suffering was real. Its grievances were just. And its potential for violence was genuine. The nationalists in Philadelphia—Morris, Gouverneur Morris, Alexander Hamilton—saw that the army’s anger could be directed toward political ends. If the officers threatened Congress, if they marched…
- The Pen of John Armstrong Jr.…it would belong to the officers as a body, not to any individual pen. The network of nationalist politicians in Philadelphia—Robert Morris, Gouverneur Morris, Alexander Hamilton—had been working toward a federal taxing power for months. They had tried to use the army’s distress as leverage in the…