Samuel Seabury And Alexander Hamilton's Exchange Debate

Samuel Seabury and Alexander Hamilton’s exchange debates the logic behind the colonists’ desires to spilt from Great Britain and reveal that Seabury presents a by far more logical argument for the continued relationship between Great Britain and the colonies. Samuel Seabury’s “A View of the Controversy between Great Britain and her Colonies” is a response to Alexander Hamilton’s “A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress, from the Calumnies of their Enemies.” In fact, the dialogue between Seabury and Hamilton extends even farther back to Seabury’s “Free Thoughts on the Proceedings of the Continental Congress.” All of Hamilton’s and Seabury’s communication centers around the debate of whether the colonies should break from Great Britain. Both Hamilton and Seabury were residents of the colonies, but disagreed greatly, as will be proven throughout this paper, as to whether the colonies should secede. Seabury (1774) acknowledges that the people have every right “to canvass …show more content…
Hamilton’s woven in attacks against the many points brought up by Seabury prove to be strong arguments against a vast majority of Seabury’s points. As the last piece in their debate, Hamilton’s “A Farmer Refuted” provides a strong basis for the arguments of the colonies desire to declare independence. Most of the arguments coming from Seabury are conservative, in that, he has no desire for change. Seabury relies on the age-old argument that things should stay the way they are because they have always been this way. With Hamilton, he acknowledges some aspects that work, such as the relationship with the King, but, also, sees that if the colonies ever wish to have truly representative governments; the government must be based in North America, not a subset of a country thousands of miles