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Alexander Hamilton was pretty insightful

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From
Concerning the Militia

"In reading many of the publications against the Constitution, a man is apt to imagine that he is perusing some ill-written tale or romance, which instead of natural and agreeable images, exhibits to the mind nothing but frightful and distorted shapes "Gorgons, hydras, and chimeras dire"; discoloring and disfiguring whatever it represents, and transforming everything it touches into a monster."

From
Concerning the Militia
From the Daily Advertiser.
Thursday, January 10, 1788
Alexander Hamilton
 
Fullsizexj said:
From
Concerning the Militia

"In reading many of the publications against the Constitution, a man is apt to imagine that he is perusing some ill-written tale or romance, which instead of natural and agreeable images, exhibits to the mind nothing but frightful and distorted shapes "Gorgons, hydras, and chimeras dire"; discoloring and disfiguring whatever it represents, and transforming everything it touches into a monster."

From
Concerning the Militia
From the Daily Advertiser.
Thursday, January 10, 1788
Alexander Hamilton
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Your post has piqued my interest. Do you have more on that?

Alexander Hamilton and I were born on the same island in the Caribbean.
 
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