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[1169] _Ib._ 308.

[1170] Irving to Miss Fairlie, July 7, 1807, Irving, I, 152.

[1171] _Burr Trials_, I, 312.

[1172] _Ib._ 313-50.

[1173] _Burr Trials_, I, 350-54.

[1174] _Ib._ 354-57.

[1175] See Adams: _U.S._ II, chap. I; Channing: _Jeff. System_, 189-94; Hildreth, III, 402; and see vol. IV, chap. I, of this work.

[1176] Jefferson's Proclamation, July 2, 1807, _Works_: Ford, X, 434.

[1177] Randolph to Nicholson, June 25, 1807, Adams: _John Randolph_, 222.

[1178] Wilkinson to Jefferson, June 29, 1807, ”Letters in Relation,”

MSS. Lib. Cong.

[1179] Jefferson to Congress, _Annals_, 10th Cong. 1st Sess. 9.

[1180] At this time Jefferson wrote curious letters, apparently to explain, by inference, to his friends in France his want of energy in the Chesapeake affair and the vigor he displayed in the prosecution of Burr. ”Burr's conspiracy has been one of the most flagitious of which history will ever furnish an example.... Yet altho' there is not a man in the U S who is not satisfied of the depth of his guilt, such are the jealous provisions of our laws in favor of the accused, ... that I question if he can be convicted.” (Jefferson to Du Pont de Nemours, July 14, 1807, _Works_: Ford, X, 461; also see same to Lafayette, same date, _ib._ 463.) It will be observed that in these letters Jefferson condemns the laxity of American laws instead of blaming Marshall.

[1181] _Burr Trials_, I, 357-59.

[1182] Irving to Miss Fairlie, July 7, 1807, Irving, I, 153. ”The only reason given for immuring him in this abode of thieves, cut-throats, and incendiaries,” says Irving, ”was that it would save the United States a couple of hundred dollars (the charge of guarding him at his lodgings), and it would insure the security of his person.”

[1183] ”Burr lives in great style, and sees much company within his gratings, where it is as difficult to get an audience as if he really were an Emperor.” (_Blennerha.s.sett Papers_: Safford, 324.) At first, however, his treatment was very severe. (See Irving to Miss Fairlie, July 7, 1807, Irving, I, 153.)

[1184] Burr to his daughter, July 3, 1807, Davis, II, 409.

[1185] Burr to his daughter, July 6, 1807, Davis, II, 410.

[1186] Same to same, July 24, 1807, _ib._ 410.

[1187] At a Fourth of July celebration in Cecil County, Maryland, toasts were proposed wis.h.i.+ng for the grand jury ”a crown of immortal glory” for ”their zeal and patriotism in the cause of liberty”; hoping that Martin would receive ”an honorable coat of tar, and a plumage of feathers” as a reward for ”his exertions to preserve the Catiline of America”; and praying that Burr's treachery to his country might ”exalt him to the scaffold, and hemp be his escort to the republic of dust and ashes.”

(Parton: _Burr_, 478.)

[1188] See vol. IV, chap. I, of this work. Also _supra_, chap. III.

[1189] Marshall to the a.s.sociate Justices of the Supreme Court, June 29, 1807, as quoted by Horace Gray, a.s.sociate Justice of the Supreme Court, in Dillon, I, 72.

[1190] Parton: _Burr_, 483.

[1191] _Burr Trials_, I, 369-70.

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