The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-03-11
A lawyers "reminiscences of Burr.

i all uIcHlDcT VI tHo NEW IUTh UdI !,
and, about, twenty years ago, my practice
was principally in Chancey. Colonel
Aaron Burr sought me ought--employed
me to draw pleadings and to move mat
ters before the then Chancellor; our very
nicely andparticularitya toplease
him, for he was choice in expressions and
particular in the position of sentences
He wanted me to become his partner
but judicious friends strongly urged me
against it. He was always sensitive and
prompt in paying my fees.
On my first being closeted with him, /
was struck with his serpent-like fascina-
ton. His head, eyes and mouth were so
very snake-like. His habit of talking to
you while he sat at distance, was to
have one of his long fingers extended,
with which he really seemed to be feel
ing you all over, while his remarkably
piercing small dark eye appeared to have
a nail in it that fastened you. He always
had queer people about him, whose free
manners were strange contrast to his
measured correctness of department.
l doubt his having packages of old
letters about him at the time of his death.
l remember once being with him in what
was known as the Alderman's Room, at
the City Hall, while the Chancellor was
holding court. pointed to the picture
there of Washington by the side of a
white horse, and observed that Washing
ton must have been handsome and re-
markable well-formed man. He was
no such thing, sir said Burr; &" Wash
ington never stood for that portrait /; he,
sir, was very ill-made about the legs and
feet; Captain Smith, who was consider
ed the handsOmest man in the army, stood
to tho painter for that figure Burr, as
we know, never loved Washington.
then suggested to the Colonel that there
must be many unpublished interesting
facts connected with the early history of
our country, and it was a pity that he did
not print bis remcmbrances. " Sir" said
he, ait would moi. be safe to do so at this
day many truths would be too humbling
to be credited. / did Onceintend to write
fully all my experience, and had collect
ed together large correspondence and
documents, labeled them very carefully,
and with all my private correspondence |
and papers, had them very particularly |
put up in tin boxes. Perhaps, sir, you
know had a daughter y | bowed an |
"Well, sir, when my daugh-
ter was about to take vessel for the South,
| entrusted all these tin boxes and all my
other valuables to her. The ship, sir,
was lost, my daughter and all / had en-
trusted to her." 1 i |
An anecdote has found its way into a
that Mr.. Emmett, in a cause
with the Manumission Society,
the name of Alexander Ham
lton in pointed manner, and that Burr
luailed. | neither believe that Emmett
would have done such a thing in the way
t is mentioned nor that the name would |
nave daunted the man who shot Hamil-
on. Take an anecdote in point Mr..
John Ant--n, a brother lawyer, had
Dust of Hamilton in his office, and from
/ trick or habit, A., when in earnest
hought or talk, would fix his eye upon
he bust. Burr had consultation with
lin, and A., unconsciously fixed his eye
lpon the pale Hamilton; but, instantly
'emembering, withdrew his sight from it,
till not before Burr OWNED his thoughts.
The Colonel quietly, slowly poked out
lis long fingers, pointed to the bust very
and said: "He may thank
ne-I made him great man."
remember being in his room; things
about, a decanter of wine and
mother of water, were on a table with
ome glasses. A female child of three or
our years old, having long, fair hair, came,
With quick step, into the room. Burr,
With shaky hand, filed glass with water
nd another with wine, and held them out
nyitingly towards the child, who prompt
Y rushed to the wine. "Only see" "said
Burr, with sort of elated air, I" how the
title imp prefers wine to water
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