The Aaron Burr Conspiracy: A History Largely from Original and Hitherto Unused SourcesDodd, Mead, 1903 - 377 Seiten |
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Aaron Burr Adair American appeared arms army arrest Baton Rouge Bayou Pierre believe Bexar Archives Blennerhassett boats Bollman Burr Conspiracy Burr's Cevallos citizens Claiborne Colonel Burr command confidence conspiracy conspirators Cordero court Daviess Dayton Dearborn December December 18 declared defense designs dispatch doubt enemy enterprise expedition February February 13 force friends Government Governor grand jury guilty Herrera honor hostile indictment intrigue Iturrigaray Jackson James Wilkinson January Jefferson MSS Journal judge Kentucky knew land Letters in Relation Louisiana March Meade ment Merry Mexico military militia Mississippi Mississippi Territory Nacogdoches Natchez Natchitoches never November October officers Ohio Orleans Gazette Palladium plot President Proclamation prosecution provinces received Richmond river rumors Sabine Salcedo seize sent Smith Spain Spaniards Spanish Swartwout Territory testimony tion traitor treason trial troops Union United Viceroy Washington West Florida Western country Western World Wilkinson to Jefferson witnesses wrote Yrujo
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Seite 71 - The people of the country to which we are going are prepared to receive us ; their agents, now with Burr, say that if we will protect their religion, and will not subject them to a foreign power, that, in three weeks, all will be settled.
Seite 5 - ... so important a key to the commerce of the Western country remained under foreign power. Difficulties, too, were presenting themselves as to the navigation of other streams which, arising within our territories, pass through those adjacent.
Seite 345 - That this court dares not usurp power is most true. That this court dares not shrink from its duty is not less true. No man is desirous of becoming the peculiar subject of calumny. No man, might he let the bitter cup pass from him without self-reproach, would drain it to the bottom.
Seite 291 - Great alarm, indeed, was excited at New Orleans by the exaggerated accounts of Mr. Burr, disseminated through his emissaries, of the armies and navies he was to assemble there. General Wilkinson had arrived there himself on the 24th of November, and had immediately put into activity the resources of the place for the purpose of its defence, and on the loth of December he was joined by his troops from the Sabine.
Seite 291 - Ohio, is still doubtful. On the whole, the fugitives from the Ohio, with their associates from Cumberland, or any other place in that quarter, cannot threaten serious danger to the city of New Orleans.
Seite 309 - The nation will judge both the offender and judges for themselves. If a member of the executive or legislature does wrong, the day is never far distant when the people will remove him. They will see then, and amend the error in our constitution, which makes any branch independent of the nation.
Seite 289 - It was not till the latter part of October that the objects of the conspiracy began to be perceived, but still so blended and involved in mystery that nothing distinct could be singled out for pursuit.
Seite 346 - The present indictment charges the prisoner with levying war against the United States, and alleges an overt act of levying war. That overt act must be proved, according to the mandates of the constitution and of the act of Congress, by two witnesses. It is not proved by a single witness.
Seite 322 - ... Constitution is the independence of the legislature, executive and judiciary of each other, and none are more jealous of this than the judiciary. But would the executive be independent of the judiciary, if he were subject to the commands of the latter, and to imprisonment for disobedience; if the several courts could bandy him from pillar to post, keep him constantly trudging from north to south and east to west, and withdraw him entirely from his constitutional duties?
Seite 290 - He found at once that the attachment of the Western country to the present Union was not to be shaken; that its dissolution could not be effected with the consent of its inhabitants, and that his resources were inadequate as yet to effect it by force.