Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1858-02-04
"Sir, have taken you in tonight, and

have done the best could for you; but if
you say another word against Aaron Burr,
I'll put you and your man out where you
come from quicker than you come in"
He apoTogized, and after time succeed
ed in regaining her good will. He did not
tell her who he was, nor could he recollect
her. He supposed that he must have
known her in early life, when as the young
est colonel in the army, and the protector
of that county, he must have been bril-
liant figure in the Imagination of country
girl.
! THE BLOOD OF ALL THE MONTROsEs.
A scene occurred in the dining room of
the house while he lay helpless, which may
as well be related here. A gentleman call
ed to engage board, found suitable rooms,
and said he would call in the afternoon to say
whether he would take them He came to
dinner. Addressing himself in an embar-
rassed hesitating manner to the landlady,
he said he had just heard of circumstance
which would deprive him of the pleasure
he had anticipated in residing under her
roof. He understood that Aaron Burr was
boarder in the house and he really could
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that character.
/ The blood of all the Montroses was up in
la moment She rose from her chair and
said, with flashing eye, and subdued inten
sity of tone:
"You have boen misinformed, Sir Col.
Burr is not boarder in this house. He is
my guest, Sir, my honored guest! Be-
fore any boarder in this house is served,
lColonel Burr is served
Then, turning to the servant who was
waiting at the table, she said in the man
ner of Napoleon ordering column to the
attack:
Patrick, take away that persons plate,
and pen the door,
Patrick obeyed and the ''person'' retired
without venturing any further observations.
This brave lady could not, of course, es-
cape sharing to some extent, the odium that
surrounded the name of the man whose last
days her wit and kindness cheered
''What you think I've heard this morn
ing Colonel?" said she to him on one occa-
sion. They say Pmsyour daughter"
we don 6 care for that;
do we %
'Not bitw was her reply ''But they
say something else, Colonel" she continued;
|.'they say I was your mistress"
'sDo they ?" said he, II don't think we
care much for that either, do we?'' -
'They must say what they choose"
she replied, the gallant soldiers daughter! !!
'But," said he, taking her hand in both
his, and lifting it to his lips, his hands
shaking with paralysis, II tell you some
thing they might say that would be true!
Let them say this of you: She gaze the old
man home achen nobody else aoouzd.''
He uttered these words with an emphasis
so strong and penetrating, that two of his
relatives who were present, one member
of the bar, and the other Judge, could not
refrain from tears
| THE MORAL.
To Judge this man, to decide how far he
was unfortunate, and how far guilty; how
much we oughtsto pity and how much we
ought to blame him, is task beyond my
powers. And what occasion is there for
Judging him, or for judging any one? We
all know that his life was an unhappy fail
ure. He failed to gain the small honors at
which he aimed; he failed to live life
worthy of his opportunities; he failed to a.
chieve a character worthy of his powers
It was great pity. And any one is to be
pitied who, in thinking of it, has any other
feelings than those of mpassion-compas-
sion for the man whose life was so much
less blessing than it might have been, and
compassion for the country, which, after
producing so rare and excellent kind of
man, lost great part Of the good he might
have done her.
AS it was he did the State some service,
thoug b they know it not. By being the
first to turn to practical account the inher-
ent weakness of our Constitution, by teach
ing the Democratic party how to carry elec-
, tions, by the invention of fillibustering, by
giving the country and General Jackson a
: taste for southwestern acquisition, thus
marshaling events the way that they would
: 60, he at least accelerated the history of his
country. In the wrong direction you will
say, true, but it was in the direction in which
the country was destined to go, and 60 as
, far as the road led.
: His duel with Hamilton had the effect f.
nally of rendering the practice Of dueling
} entirely odious in the Northern States
) That was benefit. In suffering the con-
r sequences of that affair, he simply expiated
the sins Of his generation, and the expiation
fell not unjustly upon him. He ought te
have known better, he had the fortitude te
: bear the SCOTS of cowards He was, upon
the whole, 1 am inclined to think, bet.
) ter man than Hamilton and it was ordered
that by being the survivor, he should have
| the uorst of the encounter.
: It is to be said in praise of Burr, that II
the various Offices held by them, he acquit