Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1828-08-14
JtCKSON AND BURR.


al evidence Of the criminal connection
between these two men. We lay be-
fore Our readers to day, another com
municstion from Judge Williams, in
which he enters more into detail -ifany
man can resist the force OF the facts mar
rated by Judge Williams and Nr.Hoover
be must be made of impenetrabie stuff.
He places the letter some time since
trumpeted to the world by Duff Green
and his minor asteilitee with so much
eclat. as having been addressed to Gen.
Jackson by corps of superaunuated
veterans offering to place themselves
under the command of the Hero. on its
proper footing. At the time of its pub
lication we suspected tito be forgery;
and. although it turnseu to be true
copy, yetthe manner in which il was
twisted from its original purport was
equally criminal as II it had been forged,
The reader is left to form his own COM
mentary on the facts detailed by Judge
Williams. We have neither time nor
room for remarks. If INDEED any we're
necessary - Lynchbwg Virginian.
TO the Editor of The Sparta Revieyy.
Jackson and Burr-In your last num-
Der OF the Review, you defend Gen
Jackson, or you say the Telegraph de-
tends him. on the ground that number
of respectable veterans of the Rcvolu-
ton, {Col. Robert Hayes among the
number, the brother in-!aw of Gen.
Jacksou) addressed the General With
view to aid bin in his efforts to suppress
the degraded Aaron Burr The Tele
graph does net fix the time a: which the
address was made but says WAS made
a, few weeks after jackson wrote 10
Gov Claiborne's letter. you say, YVES
enathe t2th Nov. 1906. and few weeks
after that time would be about the ist oil
December, 1906. 1t would be impor.
tant to know where Burr was at that
time he tire of Sackson's letter to
Claiborne. At what port Of Cumber.
land his boats were building-whether
at the mouth of Stones River, OF higher
up the Cumberland River--near to Cen
JacksoR's house. {twould be material
also to know, whe % the Generals
friends and relatives, were preparing to
go of with Burr, and who did in fact 60
off with him! See a cepy Of John
Roover's letter, here enclosed.
Now. from Burr's Trial, it appears
that the conspirators on the Ohio, fed
from Blannerhassat's Island on tbe
leth December, 1906, and were at the
mouth of Cumberland, as soon as they
could conveniently get there, where
they me, with Col. Burr, who haran.
gued the men and told them'he would
develope his schemes to them more fully
than be could with safety to his interests
do there. So, it is believed, that, at
the precise time when this letter was
addressed By Col Robt. Hayes, and
other Revolutionary veterans to the Gen
eral. Aaron Burr was in the neighbor-
hood OF Gen. JacksoR's, building boats;
and many of the Generals near rela.
tons and friends were preparing to 60
Oft with him. The Telegraph makes
Col. Robt. Hayes express the language
IN Tie address at the precise time when,
his son, Stokely ID Hayes, was prepar-
ing to SO oil in boats built FOR Burr. at
the mouth of Stones River, q point on
the Cumberland near to General Jack
sons house. lived in Nashville at the
time when that address was irst publish.
ed ~ the papers, and according to my
recollection, it was before there was
'ny talk OF Burr'S Conspiracy. 1t now
occugs to me, tina: it grew out of the