A Discourse Delivered in the North Dutch Church, in the City of Albany, Occasioned by the Ever to be Lamented Death of General Alexander Hamilton, July 29, 1804.

“Nothing in the volume [i.e. Coleman’s Collection of Facts and Documents] is so justly famous, however, as the remarkable memorial address delivered in Albany by Eliphalet Nott, then a clergyman of but thirty-one years of age, and destined to assume, in that very year, the presidency of Union College. This oration, by reason of its moving eloquence and the courage with which it attacked the institution of dueling, gave its author immediately a national reputation. For fifty years after its delivery, few examples of pulpit oratory were more frequently drawn upon in extracts for the use of school Readers and Speakers” (Ford 101).