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(1/x) Noted without further comment, this passage from Alexander Hamilton, in a letter to George Washington from August of 1792. The fuull document can be found here:
founders.archives.gov/documents/Hami…
(2/x) "When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits—despotic in his ordinary demeanour. . .
(3/x)". . .known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty—when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity—to join in the cry of danger to liberty—to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion. . ."
(4/4) ". . .to flatter and fall in with all the nonsense of the zealots of the day—It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may 'ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.' "

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