Hamilton harbored the anxiety that the United States under their new Constitution would be too loosely held together.

He promoted, therefore, every measure that tended to strengthen the Central Government and to save it from dissolution either by the collapse of its unifying bonds or by anarchy.

In the work of the first two years of Washington's administration, Hamilton was plainly victorious.

The Tariff Law, the Excise, the National Bank, the National Funding Bill, all centralizing measures, were his.

Washington approved them all, and we may believe that he talked them over with Hamilton and gave them his approval before they came under public discussion.
Thus, as Hamilton gained, Jefferson plainly lost.