The first was the excise, an internal revenue on distilled spirits.

It met with opposition from the advocates of State rights, but was passed after heated debate.

The last was the establishment of a United States Bank.
All of Hamilton's measures tended directly to centralization, the object which he and Washington regarded as paramount.
In 1790 Washington made a second trip through the Eastern States, taking pains to visit Rhode Island, which was the last State to ratify the Constitution (May 29, 1790).

These trips of his, for which the hostile might have found parallels in the royal progresses of the British sovereigns, really served a good purpose; for they enabled the people to see and hear their President; which had a good effect in a newly established nation.

Washington lost no opportunity for teaching a moral.