[justshutupandtakeit]

Identifying someone as a "Hamiltonian" while tying him to a movement to secede was clearly an attempt to tar Hamilton with that heresy. Why else mention Hamilton in the context of something he detested?

It would be like trying to tie you to protecting the Union.

[GOPcapitalist]

Identifying someone as a "Hamiltonian" while tying him to a movement to secede was clearly an attempt to tar Hamilton with that heresy.

Nonsense. Timothy Pickering was a close political ally of Hamilton, a leader of the Hamiltonian wing of the Federalist Party, and an avowed adherent to what we now know as Hamiltonian Federalism. There is nothing wrong with noting those simple facts.

Why else mention Hamilton in the context of something he detested?

Cause Timothy Pickering was a leading member of the Hamiltonian wing of the Federalist party. I'm sorry if you don't like that fact, but it is still a fact. So tough.