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title: 'A Discourse…Occasioned by the Death of General Alexander Hamilton'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'Eliphalet Nott'
date: 1806-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Sermons'
- 'Ethics (General)'
scriptures:
- '2 Samuel 1'
- 'Exodus 20'
- 'Genesis 9'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/nott-1806-a-discourse-occasioned-by-the-death-of-general-alexander-hamilton
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# A Discourse…Occasioned by the Death of General Alexander Hamilton

Eliphalet Nott's funeral discourse for Alexander Hamilton (1804) denounces duelling as deliberate murder, a breach of God's law and civil law, and urges Christians to reject the practice.

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