His analysis shows that out of sixty-four members of the House, twenty-nine were security holders, and of these twenty-one voted for and eight voted against assumption.

But the facts disclosed do not sustain his theory that the issue was essentially a conflict between capitalism and agrarianism.
The assumption bill was lifted to its place on the statute book through the leverage exerted by Hamilton and Jefferson, with Washington's prestige as their fulcrum.

The characters of these three men resist schemes of classification according to economic interest.

The principal value of analysis of the economic elements of the struggle is to protect from undervaluation the motives that actuated the opposition to Hamilton's measures.

The historian has the advantage of a perspective denied to participants in events, and this fact is apt to turn unduly to the discredit of lost causes.] The passage of assumption was the turning point.