John Adams: called Hamilton “the bastard brat of a Scotch pedlar”
John Adams: called Hamilton a “Creole bastard”
John Adams: decried the adversities Hamilton faced as personal failures
John Adams: called Hamilton an “aspiring mortal” (???)
John Adams: accused Hamilton of incest
John Adams: called Hamilton a slacker (!?!?!?)
John Adams: spread a rumor that Hamilton “never wrote or spoke… in public without a bit of opium in his mouth.”
Also John Adams: “I never wrote a line of slander against my bitterest enemy.”
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