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[1263] _Burr Trials_, II, 415; 4 Cranch, 481.
[1264] _Burr Trials_, II, 415-23; 4 Cranch, 482-88.
[1265] _Burr Trials_, II, 425; 4 Cranch, 490.
[1266] This part of Marshall's opinion (_Burr Trials_, II, 425-34; 4 Cranch, 490-504) is reproduced in full in Appendix F.
[1267] _Burr Trials_, II, 426; 4 Cranch, 492.
[1268] _Burr Trials_, II, 429; 4 Cranch, 494.
[1269] _Burr Trials_, II, 430; 4 Cranch, 495.
[1270] _Burr Trials_, II, 436; 4 Cranch, 500.
[1271] _Burr Trials_, II, 436-37; 4 Cranch, 500. These paragraphs furnish a perfect example of Marshall's method of statement and logic--the exact ant.i.thesis plainly put, the repet.i.tion of precise words with only the resistless monosyllables, ”if” and ”then,” between them.
[1272] _Burr Trials_, II, 437; 4 Cranch, 501.
[1273] _Burr Trials_, II, 443; 4 Cranch, 506.
[1274] _Burr Trials_, II, 444-45; 4 Cranch, 507.
[1275] _Burr Trials_, II, 446.
[1276] _Burr Trials_, II, 446-47. Martin was right; the verdict should have been either ”guilty” or ”not guilty.”
[1277] _Blennerha.s.sett Papers_: Safford, 339.
[1278] _Burr Trials_, II, 447.
[1279] _Blennerha.s.sett Papers_: Safford, 356-58; and see Adams: _U.S._ III, 448, 464-65. Duane was known to have unbounded influence with Jefferson, who ascribed his election to the powerful support given him by the _Aurora_.
Government agents also tried to seduce Colonel de Pestre, another of Burr's friends, by insinuating ”how handsomely the Col. might be provided for in the army, if his principles ... were not adverse to the administration.” De Pestre's brother-in-law ”had been turned out of his place as Clerk in the War Office, because he could not accuse the Col.
of Burr-ism.” (_Blennerha.s.sett Papers_: Safford, 328-29.)
[1280] _Burr Trials_, II, 448-49.
[1281] _Ib._ 455.
[1282] Jefferson to Hay, Sept. 4, 1807, as quoted in Adams, _U.S._ III, 470; and see _Jefferson_: Randolph, IV, 102.
[1283] Adams: _U.S._ III, 470.
[1284] See _infra_, 524.
[1285] _Burr Trials_, II, 473-80.
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