Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1808-05-09

w. -taf f,~~els II :h5i pct would hay.
z.eer nv Fegfra e ~ Of lie United States; an
el-. h;- pfsa would lave divided the nation
-red piaced the aor,hern rarl Of i under ne
.-s1-1;,r77 WI foreign power All THIS your
Frce,ltn-v advances with The Alteration o.
,r5toead proi.ical f7gacity and with a.
rlueh apc7rcut gravity a i you expected 10
y credited
MI ,.e viii he foolih enough - deny,
,,,b.- .N he world knows, a Miranda eIPe-
Tir.3n"- -unwarrantaciy commeneeu III ms
,so,,,.,rv and defeated in the manner which IS
general, Known but not man n me world,
wour E1-clleacy excepted viii iuppoie 'bat
Lr,1sl4s .t.sst ~ Ltn4fzr fbyes ~ FIR bVR7Sed
--e~ ~ SouFu AMERIcA, z0z5 70 ait7en7tsr tie
UN1rEo srATEs-
Ifthe oL;et1 contemplated by Mr. Burrwas
- difnerober the union, to detaeh he weltern
T-o-, fhe Atlantic nate>. he NUT have known
:, - be st.ger her impra6ticable. without the
e-s,r-.i .ron-urrcnce Of the weltern people.
Sc knew thar fome aliug men ~ that coun.
nv fau profsHi tlemislves 20 be rePHbli-
cans, had formerly contemplated iuch iep-
sra-,nn and had been intriguing with the
ssspikl government 10 accomPhih i. Il is
new known hat fome Of thefe men were pen
6oners to Spain Is it nor probable thar Mr.
P,-r n his y6t 70 the weiterR country, in
1905. converted with men Of Influence there,
who might be dilpoled TO ieparaton and.
that he miilool- f5ar ideas OF Il for the lenti-
nent Of the Sss5L at ll,es ard thence conceiv-
"a the project IF leParation to be feiibel
Bun inaead Of feverai millions Of dollars be-
ing u Mr.. Burr's dilpolal (Which you have
permitted youdeif g fay that lhaII not hcf-
tate 20 own-plainly inGnuating that know,
and know as a partaker in hi piot) every man
Of information, in the Atlantic Rates, knows
that MIR. Burr's want Of credit was luch, that
no perlons certainly no fsderzliIts) could have
bsen fpnsd 70 advance him. on his own iecu-
ritv. even final. fun. But when he was in
Keaiucky, where his true character was rot
generally known, fome Of the inhabitants were
furDrifed, as have undsraotd. into an aocep-
lance IF h;s hitls, 10 the amount Of forty Or
ffry thoulaud dollars, drawn on places where
be had no funds to dilcharge them And
would anv man, with feveral millions in his
hands. rgio-t to fuch aillonour able means to
rzile thar comparatively trifling fun But
your Excs,lency has farther allowed youilelf
IL Tay. not onlv thar Burr lad leveFal millions
for more than half of levera milions) a. his
difDolsl. but that YOU have no doubt that
great part Cf his large iums went from tie
northern bsvj2bess : as, with your characteril-
tick perciGou YOU call The northern itates. Is it
poIFble for your EIcelency 10 mention one
foitary Teaion, Or 5a4eIv Of realou, that could
induce federal men Of property Cor lureIy you
wcud not implica.e any Of your own party
In Mlfachufeus. for inllsuce, to advance a
great part ~ ieEer4l millions If dollars to any
ran, much ie.s 20 the man whom they detef-
ed--as Catiiine, "a unPTinciPled, prrA.gate
man-snd for tie purGote Of detaching the
sgelleru from tie atlantic ltates This is iuch
a abiu-dity would eHPDfe any character Of
les weight han yUur E1cellency's 10 dcrEon
Yer abfurd and incred blr a. il is, thar Burr
flould hare had ieveral millions IN bis HANDS,
you hsve proved yourlelf capable Of inigua-
ting that Z knew where he Obtained hemi
That Mr.. Burr, III 500, formed i0me pro-
jsa Injurious 90 the United States, have not
doubted and YET The nate Of the country,
the good dilp0Ltion of the people, and bis ab-
folute want 81 means, preien,ed luoh iniuPer-
abledilficulties to the execution Of projetf 70
eSteniive as the diimemberment Of the union,
or the invshon of Mcxico,-,hat the conccp
ton of one or the other, by man Of Byrr's
understanding, could be accounted for only
from confederation Of his foriorn condition
! thsnk i was IL January 1907, when at
Wa.hington, where Burr's plot aImOG eugroh-
the public attention, that in writing 10
friend, IL order 10 avoid tile impui arion Of
weak cre1uii'y, Is 10 the exillance OF pro-
Jet 70 nantellly impraGicable, thought 1t
heoeiiarv 20 iszle The grounds Of my own be-
hst lucb as, that Mr.. Burr was 4 bankrupt
~ fame and fortune that lie Jaw the impolh-
biliiY Of ever retrieving eabey in the United
staies while hs ambition had ~ bounds
that whatever u'iehs he the iHue Of HE enter
PHze. his coudiiion could nor well BE worle
and that red GEO . ag5qsaiisH, he riigh form
the wi.deit prCjeet; knowing, thar II by any
pciLlnlity Ike could lucceed, he might again
become an 'mpoHant man and Il he failed,
,hat ne might be eaied ci lie which a man,
Of his airH.ng mind, reduced 10 poverty and
dtititu.e Of ps~cr, migl4t conGder Uor!c than
death
Such, Sir, was my view Of the man and LIS
proiect with which you have the temeri,y TO
intimate thai wa, connected A man who
1 believe could 70 eaii.y accommodate hi. prin-
cipes to his ambition man to whom IS
Prefceni Of the senate, had, nded, mani
feied the ulual clvinyies demanded Iy our rel
stive official titus.ions; but from whom had
Withdrawn, during his Ian years proficiency
OF the Senate, al petfohal regard Yes-I
lad purPoie'y withheld ~ ham from Iii. then
reekIng with The blood Of the murdered HAM-
uTN
Hear ne farther. A few days before the
clofe Of The fame felioA Of Congrels, 4 bin
as brought into the senate, to grant TO Mr.. !
l5urr the priv eye Of Tending and aceivinr
letters and packets BY the mail, flee of DoR.
age, during lie. Mr.. Burr was in he chair
snd his prefenoe is I'M cling. Eeve-the els,
tie hilt was oppofed The oppoGtion was
begun BY MIR. Hiilhoufe and myielf But the
bill was psfed IL the ienate, BY majority If
Is to rs. Ia the houle Of reprelentative. It
failed a. cnce, by al indefinite polponement.
And YET, Sir, with this mar, thus deJeilrd,