The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-03-10

/ h"u0t VI MI JOIN NlllH. loIt SuNiN ia
dies wept upon seeing the low estate to
which this great man was reduced and one
OF them, Mrs. Jack Johnson, named her
son Aaron Burr. He is still alive, and he
was not the only boy named Aaron Burr
in the Mississippi Territory. The ladies
every where espoused his cause in the
sou.h western New world. II is promi-
nent and noble trait in the female charac-
Ter, to admire a man of daring and gcner.
Gus impulses, aud to pity and defend him
in his adyersltes.
Atthe boat.yard in the present county of
Baldwin, State of Alabama, the crew dis,
embarked, and here lived William and
John Pierce, natives of New England, who
had several years before established one Of
the first cotton gins in Alabama, and ira.
ding establishments Gains gave the com
mand Of The guard intended 10 convey Burr
10 Washington clTy, to Col. Nicholas Per,
klns, lawyer late from Tennessee. Ills
men was Thomas Malone, formerly a clerk
III the land office at Raleigh, n, C., and
then the clerk Of Washington county, MA
bama, Henry b. SIade of North Carolina,
and two brothers M'COrmacks, from Ken
tucky-added to these were two United
States soldiers. They were all men whom
/ Perkins selected, and whom he could RELY
upon under all circumstances. He took
these men aside aud obtained from them the
most solemn pledges, that upon the whole
route to Washington city, they would not
converse with Burror let him escape alive
Perkins knew how fascinating Burr was
and he feared his familiarity with his men
Indeed, he feared the same influence up.
on himself. His character for making
strong impressions upon the human mind,
and attaching men to him by association,
was well known to the world, When Col.
Burr fled from the Matches settlement, he
procured disgulzod dress. His pantaI0ons
were of coarse, coPperas cloth, with roun-
dabout of inferior drab. His hat, flap
! ping -brimmed beaver, had in times
been white but now gave evidences Of hay-
ing encountered much rough weather.
Placed upon his fine horse, he besrode
him most elegantly and flashed his large
dark eyes as though he were at the head of
his New York Regiment 10 use COM
mon expression of The old settlers who saw
him It Alabama, "hls eyes were peculiar,
they looked like stars. Each man of the
EXPEDITION carried provisions for himself and
some for Col, Burr. They were all well
mounted with noarms except pistols in hol.
sters, and two muskcls borne by the two
soldiers. he party set oul from the boat
yard in the latter part of February, 1907.
In quarter of a mile Of this place the
dreadful massacre Of Fort Minis occurred
six years afterwards. Pursuing the Indi-
an path which led from the "Bgby settle
ment' to fort Wilkinson on the distant
Oconee, the guard travelled the first day
about thirty miles. At night the only tent
IN company was pitched for the prisoner,
who reposed himself upon his blankets
The lower part OF Monroe county abounded
with immense pine forests. Here the ex-
Vice President lay, the first night, by rous-
lug fires, which threw glare over the dis.
nal woods, while his ears were saluted
with the howl of hungry wolves In tho
wIlds OF Alabama, in a small tent, reposed
this august parsonage having no one to
converse with surrounded by guard
| prisoner of the United States, for whose
liberties he had fought, whose govern
mcnt he had hc ped to form; exiled from
| New Ork, whose statues and institutions
bore the impress Of this great mind dcpra-
we'd by death OF his splendid wife his on
/ " child then on the distant coast of Caro-.
lima his professional pusuts abandoned
and his fortune swept from him; the mag
nlilcent scheme of the conquest of Mexico
uprooled and the fragments dispersed sian.
dered and hunted down from one end Of
( the Union to the Olher--alI these things
were sufficient TO weigh down an ordinary
being and sunk hlm to an unlimely grave.
, Col. Burr, however, was no common man,
In the morning he rose chcerluly and pur.
sued his journey, Although guarded with
! vlgllence, his few wants were Gr1tihsd as
Tar as they could he, aud he was treated
with respect and kindness. The trail be.
ing narrow. as ara all Indian highways.
Burr rode in the middle, having a part Of
the guards IN front aud tho others behind
HIM, all in single file. The route Law about
eight miles south Of the presen! city of
Montgomery, then an Indian town called
Eacohcharle, meaning Red Gronmi
In 1911, Gen. Wade Hampton cut out
tue Federal Road" along this trail, which
was we'll known to carly settlers as the on
Iy highway IN South Alabama. The guard
passed by The site Of the present Mount
Ncigs, and stopped at the house Of "OId
NiHIey, the former wife of British sol.
der, who, with her husband, in l77O, left
the barra' ks at Savannah, and came to the
Creek nation. She had long been resi-
dent Of these Wild woods, now laying in
the county of Montgomery. Her husband
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