Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1808-05-11


ern hemisphere. The few who hate our
forms of government have had address
enough TO conceal their principles from
their followers" s
Ga such rhodomon,ade, comment would
seem TO be thrown away. Iccrsainly should
never have noticed it, had no, your excel.
leney. 10 your letter Of March 18Th, pre-.
seuted me with a new edition, with add.
tons
After suggesting that the tendency of my
letter was 10 overthrow the national 60
verumens, you thus address me. g This
dissolution you viii deny 10 DC an object
with you; but you will GOT deoy tina, there
is in existence such man as Aaron Burr.
You will rot deny Mranda's expedition,
or Durr's plot. You will not hesitate 10
own that several millions Of dollars have
been by ,hcm expeaded, or that e,ore 'han
half OF &c was expended by Burr, who had
no money OF his own. [ do no. call 90
you so say where this money was Obtained;
YOU do Boi know. But this you oow, tha.
success in thu, pot would haze b en- the
destruction OF the IT, S. and that his plan
weuld nave divided the nation, sod placed
the northern part Of ii under the dominion
Of a foreign power" All this your ex
celseocy adssoces with ,hs anec.a;.on Of
profound political sagacIty; aud with as
much apparent gFasi.y as If you expected
20 be cndited,
No one will be foolieh enough TO deny,
Ill ~
petition" unWa,rantaby commented in.
,his coantry, and defeated IN the maoner
which is generally known; bHs not uan
10 the world your exceliency excepted,
will suppose that lNiranda's object in isnd.
ing three or four hun9red men IN Soufb Il
merica, zuas to dGsmenber the u. 5.
Ifthe object contemplated by Barr was to
dismenber the union, to detach the western
from the Atlantic states, he must have known
II to De altogether lnpractlcable, without the
general concurrence OF the western people,
He knew that some leading men in that COIN
Try (all protesting themselves to be repubi-
cansi had formerly contemplated such Sc
pararon; and had been intriguing with the
Spanish government to accomplish It. 1t is
now known that some of these men were pen
sloners of Spain. IS it not probable that Mr.
Burr, in his visit to the western country, in
1905, eonversed with men of influence there,
who might be disposed to separation and
thai; he miStook tdeir ide&s of it for the sen;i-
ment Ct the feotIc at ta;ge2 and thence con-
celyed the project CT a separation to be feast
bic
But instead OF several millions ofdollars be-
ing at MIR Burns disposal (Which you have
permitted yourselfto Say that Shall not he
state to own--plainlv insinuating that know
and know as a partaker in his plot every man
| OF information, In the Atlantic states, knows
| that Mr.. burr's want OF credit was such, that
| no persons certainly no ioderaiistsl could
have been found to advance him, on MS own
security, even a small sum. But when lie
| was in Kentucky, where bis true character
| was not generally known, some Of the inhsl-
bitants were surprlzed, as have understood,
| into an acceptance Of his bills, TO the amount
Of forty or fifty thousand dollars, drawn Oh
! places where he had rot funds to discharge
! them. and would any man, with several nil.
| lions ii his hancS, resort to such ,isaonorable
means to raise that comparatively tri1ing
| sum But your eXceilenoy has further al
| lowed yourself u say, not only that Burr had
several millions Tor more THAN half OF several
Millions at his disposal. but that you have no
| doubt SCAT great part ofhis large SUNS went
( from the northern hemiaihe~e ! as, with Jour
! characteristic precision You call the northern
states. Is it possible for your excelency to
mention one solitary reason or shadow of rca-
| son. that could induce federal men Of proper
| ty for surely you would not impiicate any Of
your own party in Massachusetts, for instance
TO advance great part OF several n,lilions Of
! dollars to ally man, much less to the man
| whom they detested--as a Cataiine, an IN
( principled, proaigate man--and for the pur-
| pose Of detatching-the Western from the At