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--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--to flatter and fall
in with all the non sense 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."
Alexander Hamilton wrote to George Washington in 1792
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-12-02-0184-0002
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