The Arkansas advocate., 1830-10-20
COL. BURR.

COL BURR.
 ssysezO York, June, i83U.-Among the most nltere, tiifg incidents ot our tempo rary stay here was visit that We paia to Colonel Aaron Burr, once holding an exalted station in this government ard u tile estimation oihis country, but clos Ieg his public career by al enterprise which proved fatal to his reputation bllghted all his hopes of farther pollti- cal adsaheement,a ,ahd jeopardized hislife itself for considerable length of time. Going to see him with brave and patri- otic American officer, with whom he had been formerly on terms of intimacy, and for whom he still retains warmpersonal friendship, l had every opportunity of ffeeconyersation with Colonel Burr. De lieaey, of course, forbade my induiging in any allusion to his western expedition, which, believe, contemplated only the suhiugation of Mexico, and not the se- verance ofthese states. But upon eve Y other topic Col. Burrwas unreserved, sprightiy and remarkably intelligent.- Upwards ofseventy years ofage, hisintel iectual faculties seem to remain unim-. paired-his bodily powers far less fec ble than could have been supposed. When we called at his house, he was not at home-but expressing an anxiety to see him, little boy, one of the many ob- jeets of his benevolent liberality, edu- cated and supported by him, conducted us to the office of ar examiner in chan. |cery, where we were met by the Col. with all the politeness and frankness for. which he was formerly distinguished.- He left the case to which he was attend ing with his junior counsel, and return ed to his house with us. His office, ir- to which we were invited, was full of books and papers, many of them having the appearance ofparchments of a cen- tury old. Col. Burr is an acute and profound chancery lawyer. To that branch of the profession, his practice, which isvaluable, is chiefyconfned. No man is equal to him in ferretting out, old titles and claims of property, and in obtaining its restoration to the right ful owners. He considered however, the chancerycourts and practice in New York as extremely intricate and defee l tive, rendered still more so, as the prac- tice of the law is in general, by the re- vised statute system of this state. You must judge of the correctness Of his opin- ion on this point, when you hear his dec- laration, that for a sufficient fee, he might engage to keep cause hung mp in chancery for fifty years, if he lived thatlong.
 Itis eyidentsthat Gel. Burr, although he abstains from conversing much on the subject, is no inattentive observer off public affairs. Occasional allusions to them evineed tic interest which which lie still still feels in the political transactions of the country His manners are agreeable his habits regular; his department easy and dignifed.
 Upon the whole, he isan exceedingly interesting man, farm yirtuous thar vicious, and claiming the sympathies ofeyery individual capable of feeliigI the woes of others. He was gallant officer in the revolutionary war; he was sorne time fayerite citizen ofthe na- ton. A too ardent ambition, first un- folded in the contest with Mir. Jefferson for the presidency, and subsequently 1 displayedin more glaring colors by his enterprise for the conquest of Mexico, in violation of our laws, plunged him from the heights of popularity into the l depth of political disrepute and despair;I and he still survives, not as criminal 1 not as one entitled 10 public reproba lion or private persecution: hut as 2 l monument ofthe ruin which ever [ ' i suspicion of lawless views brings on the most talented statesmeninthis countTy."a