The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-03-27
Their trial, he will have the advantage of being
brought before one of the d!trif courts, whole


FELTON, comes on the foonet.
In thtf- refrees, Aaron Burr will poflefs
all the privileges Occurred TO him by the con.
lt'iuii0n al The Y. States. IL viii Sc en-.
JOY the right To Jpse6s and public trial, by IA
impartial jury of the rate and diRJi? wherein
the crime iball have been committed, which
dlitrict :hall have been prevoully aicer,aincd
by law"
Whether we couGder the nature of the crime
or the character Of the criminal; the witnelles
who will be brought up, the council by whom
1t Will be argued, or tine eager curiohty of the
nation this will be one of the mot impreilive
fpettacles which this or any other city in the
U. S. was ever wiinef1td in.
This criminal was once the Vice Pre- iident of
The U. S.; S; Il man who ranks at all times, a.
mon2 men ot the moi attendant talents in his
country.
The crime likely to be alledged againit him
is the fouleft and mot atrocious that can poiIi-
bly, difgrace the inhabitant of free country
1t is the crime of traitor. 1t is the crime of
parricide in arms againft his country who has
aboured to excite gallant people againi the
very beft government that ever exifted ; who has
plotted TO deRroy that grea. ark of our political
tate;y, our union in fact, one who has wh,t-
ted the poiioned daggers of civil infurrec ton,
to 4" e7y qvar" againl his country. In COM
PARTON of fuch crime, what is murder |;
what is the robbery that clandefinrly cmptes
my purfe; or the felon that boldly prows up
on the highway, ard at the fame blow deals
robbery and murder? If he be really guilty of
treaion, what is ~. Burr compared to Eugene
Aram 3 IF upon this ground, even. he be &C
quilted, perhaps he may lil be indicted and
tried by the laws of the u. S. for prsbariag an
expedition aganft Mexico the colony of a
foreign fate with whom we are Rozu at peace.
The Virginia Bar has generally been pronouc-
ed by the federal judges themfelves to be the a.
blef in the U. States.
Some of the wtnencs are men of the hiChef
Handing and refpeetability.
And the confpiracy itfelfhas excited 70 much
public curohty it has rung 70 often in the newt.
papers, and in the circles of private life, not
only in this country, but in Europe, that pub
lie expectation may he calculated to be more
general aud eager than any fste trial in this
country has ever before produced.
The ufual courie Of proceeding will be pur-
ined. A. B. will be brought before the Chief
Jnitlce for examination Should be conceive
that there is tufiicient cauie for a profecution,
he will remand him into confinement or hold
him to bail. His trial will be ordered for the
next feiiion of the Federal DiRria Court ;
holden IN this city on the 22d May.
We ihall pats no premature opinion upon
this mans guilt. If he be innocent of all Gain
of treafon, in the name of juhice let him be
| acquitted. Nay, if he be guilty, in the eye of
morality, OF the mott abominable intentions Of
ievYlng war againt this country, yet if there be
no overt act OF treaton perpetrated, or if his
hyperion ingenuity has prevented the produc-
tion of any satisfactory legal proof-even then
too, the laws of his country will acquit him on
| the charge of treaion. Thoie laws were imper-
feet during the hotteft time OF his confpiracy,
though an act of the lat congrefs, has in great
| degree removed their imperfeetion. They made
an overt ACT of treafon punittaole with death {;
| while all the subordinate ihades of that crime
winch oniiitedinprepairiug the neceiIary means,
were fuffered to eicape with impunty-But
though Col. B. be discharged from the ground of
treaion, it will not therefore follow that he is to
be let loofe from all the trammes of the law
For It'll there is anoter connt in the indictment
| to which it behoves the u. S. attorney to direct
| his attention.
Aaron Burr fands accuid by the U. S. on
two grounds.
LIT. On charge of treafon; or leyying war
againf the United States.
end. On charge of preparing an expedition
aeaInit the colonies of Spain; nation,
with whom the U. S. are at peace.
| The act of CongrefS of April soth, 1890, de-
clares the Punihnent eff treaion to be
death.
~ VI Ju"S iISf, pSlilCS tllC idtuIC
OF the fecond crime, and affixes its pu-
Diihment 1t is fine and imprisonment
at the difcreton of the COURT" but " 70
as that fuch fine fhalI not exceed three
thouiand dollars, nor the term of impri-
Torment be more than three years."
| Let a. 3. therefore be discharged on the
charge of treafoD, he is Till refponGble on the
end charge to the laws of his country. The
offences are different and 70 is the puniihment.
1t is to he hoped, therefore, that the attorney
of the U. S. will lay his bill of accufations 70
broad, as to comprehend this new offence,
even 1t col. Burr be difcharaed on the firt. His
own reputation aud the intereits of his conn
try imperiouny demand, that the judicial in
veftigation ihould be satisfactory, and tberefoie
| it ihould be comp etc. OF courfe it ihould com
prize that =" offence." which Chief Juftice Mar
ihall on delivering the opinion of the court on
| the 2lit February. confefed, "there is broba-
tie ground for fuppoling they have commit
ted"
| LAX at TI!LS Pi9ms,--GnG then at THAT.
Piutarch has drawn the mott friking paral-
lels between the worthless of Greece and Rome ,
he has placed them together in pairs, fde by
Tide, and face to face aud inRituted an accurate
companion between their REFLECTIVE excel
| lencies and defetis; the traits ia which they
agreed and thoie in which they diTered.-I,e t
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