Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-08-22


act of Treason and that there was evidence TO con-
Wet him oft; all ofwhich upon the above SUPPOSE
ton must have been notorious, and yet Cen Jack
son afterwards. (or Burr went immediately from
Kentucky where they attempted "a prosecute him
TO Tenncssec( rcceiv cd aud entertained him vt his
house according TO Judge Stuart, his own witness.
rs respectable stranger d! atho' MS conspiracy
was according to the same gentleman subject oil
conversation in Nashville, and it was currently
reported that Burr aud Jack SON was upon terms
OF intimacy and friendship, and that lie lived a,
Jackson's house," and which report when refer
red TO by stranger, (Nr Peasc) who made some
enquiries upon The subject, not attempted 10
he denied 10y his particular hivnd, (see Judge
stuarts statement) Biutus further tells us " that
soon after BUR- went down the Cumberland,
t'nark rea,c late was ii On, IA gentleman arriv
Ell IN pursuit ui him. and from this man. Jackson cot
the brst Intelligence lac had received of the real
objects oi the arch intrigucr; on that rGrY day
ne u'Totc the letter 10 GOrcrnor Claiborne" SC
Row, most luckily, we have the date of Jackson :
letter 10 Claiborne: it is on The l2h day of No
Neinber, 1906 and il j. iaci which has never been
attempted 10 be denied, that Burr was in Nash
Vile alter that date and at Jacksons house, indeed,
Bro~rs own statement confirms il beyond the pos
Sibiuy OF doubt: He saws, he was followed
down and apprchcnd.d in the Mississippi in Feb
ruary 1907. II the messenger sent i'll pursuit of
Burr, was in Nashville on the 18th OF November,
what in the world could he have been doing from
that time until Febr uary, the space OF three months,
The thing is iinpos sibe-and vet so anxious is
Arutus to clear mp this matter too, that he says
General Jackson wrote his letter 10 Governor
Claiborne on the very day which he, for the
hrst Time, received authentic. intelligence, &c. of
burr's real designs, from the man who was then
actually i'll pursuit Of him 20 apprehend him
From the statement OF Brutus and the letter OF
Judge Stuart, no man can resist the belief but that
Burr was in and about Nashville, when he had
boats built, and at the house OF General jackson in
December, 1906, or January, 1907: And vet IL is
insinuate,i that the public ough, 10 disregard the
statement Of Judge Williams, because he states
that he thinks Burr was i'll Nashville i'll the winter
-oi lS07. Ii he was there in January, as il is al
most certain he was by their own showing, then
the statement is true 10 the letter II he was there
in December, 1906, at the very close OF that year
the mistake is so very tiitng, that l cannot be-
iievc any man oil common candor, or common
honesty, could think Of discrcditing any man.
statement in regard 20 old transaction, because
he did not recol.ect the precise date within 10 or
20 days; the more especially, when he did not
himself pretend to fix positively that date. Why,
gentlemen, in conclusion, permit me TO ask donot
the General and his friends deny the statement
made by Mr.. Burton Of McAiinville that him
self and seventy other men was with Patton I'm
derson Che Generals Buily,) then Captain; mus
tered into the service oil BUR at the Clover Bot
tom, (the Identical place TO which Brutus says he
retired, when he was cotdiy received by General
Jackson,) while himself, b. and the General were
presenG Why do not they deny that General Jack
son permitted two of his nephews TO embark with
Burr down the river, with letter from the Gene
raj to Governor Claiborne, (see J. Buchanan's
statemenD? Why do not they deny that Burr's
drafts were endorsed by General jackson: These
facts, connected with others which the parties
here admitted and stated places the General in
very suspicious attitudc-and it is OF the last i'm
portance ii these statements false; that the
public should have an Wicquirocai denial of them
because, from the suppostion of the truth OF these
facts, the Inference is irresistible, that Jackson at
that time had improper aud criminal come ction
with Aaron Burr.
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