Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1833-03-14

stands at present, he would inform him that
ms Satanic Majesty had gone over to the
Nu!liners, and much about the same time
with the Senator from Virginia.
Mr.: Tyler resumed. lie had conclud-
ed that his Satanic Majesty had obtained a
complete mastery over the whole concern:
for he should show that nothing but the
workings of his spirit could have produced
such bill as this.
What an example does the following sketch give TO
! another Wee President Of the United States until
lately high in the confidence Of his countrymen! Il b
we believe from New York paper: -
AMBITION BLASTED.
Every one acquainted with the public
men of our country, must know sonnet hing
of Aaron Burr, of N. York, once Vice
President of tho United States. His his
tory exhibits striking instance of blasted
ambition. Ofamost persuasive eloquense
and bland manners, with deep knowledge
of the human heart, Aaron Burr looked
forward in his earlier days to the highest
Offices and distinctions Of tho republic
He had attained the highest but one. But
before his dark and searching eye there
stood one obstacle to his ascent; it was
Hamilton. The illustrious Hamilton. who
had weathered the storms of the revolution
by the side Of Washington, and who had
saved the nation in. her councils,that Wash
ington saved by his sword and Fabian pru.
dence,-was patriot too incorruptible to
look coldly on and see the rise of an un.
principled spirit, whose intellectual capa-
city only equalled his want Of principle
To the eye of Hamilton, Burr was in poll.
tics what Benedict Arnold was in the field
and his opposition to his designs, partook
of that keen and stern character which ev-
err made Hamilton so terrible to the ene-
mics of the true rights Of his country.
They met at length, on "the dark and
bloody ground" about two miles above
Hoboken, on the Jersey shore, opposite
New-York. Hamilton fell-and as he fell,
the earthly prospects of Burr darkened in
thick-ribbed gloom.
Immediately after this catastrophe, the
conduct of Burr began to excite attention:
He frequently took sudden aud rapid and
distant jourhies, disguised so as not to be
[ known on-the road. One week he would
be seen in his office in New ork-and
next in distant city as if he had dropped
from the clouds. 1t was ut first supposed
that he was suffering the agonies Of re-
morse for the murder Of Hamilton; but
the eye Of government soon detected the
preparation for some design Of violence.
Arms and men had been gathered at diff.
ferent points, either for a division Of the
United States, or fora descent upon Mex
ico-or for both objects blended. He wa
arrested in the remote west, and carried il
irons for many hundred miles through
country, over whose Senate he had presid
ed as The second officer of government, t
7 the place designed for his trial. He wa
acquitted of the charge Of treason, but thu
irreversible sentence Of public opinion hae
gone forth against him. He became .
wanderor in foreign lands.
Over a few Of these vagrant years Of hi.
life deep obscurity rests. He returned
however, to New-York, the scene of his
former glorious aspirations. Here he has
spent his life with but little notice or dis.
tinction; and without any more influence
over the public mind, than if he had been
frozen into statue Of stone the moment
that he sent the death shot to the bosom oil
Hamilton.
Reminiscence.-It was I think on the