"Let us not therefore suffer ourselves to be terrified at the prospect of an imaginary and fictitious Sylla, and by that means, be led blindfold into a real and destructive Charybdis."
Remarks on the Quebec Bill: Part Two, by Alexander Hamilton, printed by the Rivington New-York Gazetteer, June 22, 1775. The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, Harold C. Syrett, ed., (Columbia University Press, New York, 1961), vol. 1, p. 176











