Editing Alexander Hamilton (section)

===Resignation from public office===
{{See also|Second Report on Public Credit}}

Hamilton's wife suffered a miscarriage<ref>{{cite web |last1=Knox |first1=Henry |title=Letter from Henry Knox to Alexander Hamilton, 24 November 1794 |url=https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-17-02-0369 |website=Founders Online |publisher=National Archives |access-date=February 5, 2017 |archive-date=October 20, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020084259/https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-17-02-0369 |url-status=live}}</ref> while he was absent during his armed repression of the Whiskey Rebellion.<ref name=Chernow478>Chernow, [https://archive.org/details/alexanderhamilto00cher/page/n513 p. 478].</ref> In the wake of this, Hamilton tendered his resignation from office on December 1, 1794, giving Washington two months' notice,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hamilton |first1=Alexander |title=Letter from Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 1 December 1794 |url=https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-17-02-0392 |website=Founders Online |publisher=National Archives |access-date=December 24, 2019 |archive-date=September 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220922135026/https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-17-02-0392 |url-status=live}}</ref> Before leaving his post on January 31, 1795, Hamilton submitted the ''[[Report on a Plan for the Further Support of Public Credit]]'' to Congress to curb the debt problem. Hamilton grew dissatisfied with what he viewed as a lack of a comprehensive plan to fix the public debt. He wished to have new taxes passed with older ones made permanent and stated that any surplus from the excise tax on liquor would be pledged to lower public debt. His proposals were included in a bill by Congress within slightly over a month after his departure as treasury secretary.<ref name=chernow480>Chernow, [https://archive.org/details/alexanderhamilto00cher/page/n515 p. 480].</ref> Some months later, Hamilton resumed his law practice in New York to remain closer to his family.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hamilton |first1=Alexander |title=Letter from Alexander Hamilton to Angelica Schuyler Church, 6 March 1795 |url=https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-18-02-0181 |website=Founders Online |publisher=National Archives |access-date=December 24, 2019 |archive-date=September 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920225625/https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-18-02-0181 |url-status=live}}</ref>