Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1853-03-12
AARON BURR .
To the Editor of the Eusning Mirror.

that after wandering on the face of The
earth, stunned and despsed by all-afer 10.
sing his fortune, his daughter and his grand.
so, among those who despised him-that he
was Lear facing the storm"
There is no character connected with the
early history of our county so little under
stood aud SO cruelty misrepresen,ed as the
subject of this article. The writer was init.
mate with him, both personally and ptofes.
sionally, during the las, fifteen years of his
life, and knows almost every circumstance
contained in this article TO be found in er-
ror.* For instance, he was not disowned by
his relatives on The contrary, an eminent
judicial character, who represented the
senior branch Of the Edwards" family
in this State, as well as several others of
the name and blood in this city, were with
him at aud before his death, and attended
his remains TO his grave in Princeton, with
ten or twelve Of the most respectable and
influential old citizens of New York, who
ranked among his friends, and acted as pail
over his remains by the President Of Prince
ton College, in the Chapel of that institution
and probably few distinguished men receiv-
ed as much attention, and drew forth more
sympathy than was apparent a, the funeral
of Aaron Burr.
Again, it is said his daughter was barbar-
ously murdered when on her voyage 10 visit
and console her father. Tha, this is an error
had from his own lips for, once mention
ing 10 him the story, that il was asserted by
some that she had been captured by the Al.
gerires on her voyage from Charleston to
New York, and that she was probably ye;
alive, he replied with grea, feeling tho,
no, she is indeed dead she pcrished in the
miserable little pilotboat in which she left
Charleston ; were she alive, all the prisons
in the world would not keep her from her
father" 'Wiih her, TOO, (sald hey were
lost all my valuable papers a loss to me
and to the history Of The country, which
can never be supplied When | realized the
truth Of her death, the world became a
blank 10 ne, and life had then los: all lis
value.n
As 10 his circumstances, they were eve
rything but those of beggary on the con-
trary, he was always in comfortable circum-
stances, living like gentleman, and enter
tanning his friends and even occasionally
when success in come great cause lin many
of which he was engaged uN TO his dealh)
put him in possession of considerable sums
OF money, he was lavish, proiuse, and gen.
eGous 10 a fault. He never begged, and
never needed or received charity had il
been so, he would have ieled 10 the earth
the hand which extended ii for his pride
and self esteem were indomilaLIe. No
! was he "hunted from town 10 town, an,
from city 10 city, fleeing in disguise from
the face of war - on the contrary, up t
period very shortly before his death, h,
went into Court 10 superin,end the iIial o
his important cases and | well rememhe
+ too, the one tried at Troy, n. Y, and tht
other involving The title of the Union Rae,
Course, on Long Island, tried al Jamaica
where he was present, and an object of tht
greatest interest, so much so; that lht
schools were discharged to allow the pupil
10 see him, and spectators came many mile
to look upon Aaron Burr.
, 1t is true, however, that a certain reserv,
, and gloom hung over him; it proceeded
partly from his natural disposition, whicl
was laciturn, dislaat and dignifed n,
was doubtless SO when young man, an,
when in the heighlh of his prosperity bu
his feelings and his looks were not those 0
being rebuked By The world, but the oppo
3 sile-of rebuking. No man was found bol'
4 enough to meet the piercing gaze of hi
0 keen black eye with anything but courtesy
. He discovered few years before hi
death what he called 1.-The wrong whicl
wac done him by public opinion - aud in
quired of me its cause-insisling on It's in
Justice. told him that in my Judgment h
, had Throughout committed fatal mistake
in allowing the thousand newspaper para
graphs published TO his degradation TO pa.
unconradicted that thOaght he owed
-, 10 himself, 10 his friends, and his hisor,
to set his personal contradiction in epposilio
!, 10 this romancing at his expense.
He said, "The federalists did this, an
n they would never forgive him that he ha
. acted on the principle that his characl'
was strcng enough TO bear such petty a
D, sau,s without contradiction aud that 4
q had supposed he was safe in treating the'
with contempt and silence. Bot, " said h'
"p fear have committsd great error J. III
men who knew their falsiIy are mostl
=, dead, aud the generation who now rea
>. them may take them for truths, being III
IN conlradicted. admit have committed
n. capital error, but it Is 10 late TO repair H."
m The recollection Of this eonversaiic
le (which noted dOTn al the timel is ii
rs cause of this reply 10 the article from II
c. Savannah Courier." Poor Burr he was
v, man of sorrow and of many griefs, but
of was a child of genius-a brave, inlellectui
On brilliant man-and had within himself IN
of ny OF the noblest qualities which distiugul
his species, Bot he had his weakness, al