Alexander Hamilton wasn't one of them.
Indeed, the founding experience of the Republic cured it of the siren song of free trade for a long time. Both America and France were plunged into depression by the free trade policies which the British tricked them into adopting, as part of the 1783 treaty which ended the Revolutionary War.
Patriots in America succeeded in solving the crisis by creating a strong central government with the Constitution, and George Washington's and Alexander Hamilton's fiscal policies, funding the government with tariffs, and promoting the manufactures of diverse goods domestically...and hence strengthening the economic basis for UNION.
The siren song here again!! My guess is the depression after the revolutionary war was maybe more a function of the US losing it's largest trading partner?? This dislocation led to a bunch of isolationist tariffs. This does not mean free trade is culprit - it was Brit economic nationalism more than free trade that started the fight.