Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1867-10-04
Burr. and Houston.

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0a Reign over all
Burn. and .IIoustOIi.
In 1924, first became acquainted
with Aaron Burr. He was attending
the Court of Errors at Utica, having OBJ
tanned favorable decisions i'm the lower
courts for his clients, the Miss Ardens,
to their claims TO an immense estate In
John, Cliff, and otherstreets i'm the low
er part of the city of New York, which
were appealed from, and of course had
to be reviewed by the court of Errors
consisting of the Lieutenant Governor
and Senators of the State which then
was what the Court of Appeals is now,
and as such were in session every sum-
mer for the revision oferrors i'm the low
er courts.
/ had been very familiar with the his
tory of Col. Burr, and had been taught
by my father, a strong Washingtonian
Federalist, and an ardent admirer of the
distinguished Gen. Alexander Hamil-
tion, to look upon Burr as an incarnatc
fiend-but after sitting daily for sever
al months at the same hotel table, |
could not resist the mesmeric influence
he seemed TO throw Mt his will, over all
with whom he came I'm immediate con-
tact. He was verging then on the win
ter of life, but his smile was fascinat.
ing, his gentleness unsurpassed, and his
graceful conversation and suavity oi
manners were charming and bewitch-
ing to young man, eager and anxious
to learn and to know from observation
If all had read and heard of this ogre
in comely form was really true and
confess that for time II loathed, then
pitied, then embraced" and we became
fast friends; and not until years after,
when came to New York, and by ac-
cidcnt renewed our formt acquaintance,
did fully learn the real character OF
Col. Burr, aud realize the wonderful
sagacity and wisdom of President Wash.
ington refusing to appoint him minis
ter to France, resisting the earnest en-.
treaties of a committee from the United
States Senate, headed by James Madi-
son, giving as an unanswerable reason,
that his rule was invariable and infiex-
ible, "never to appoint an immoral
man TO an office" could give other
satisfactory reasons for withdrawing
my youthful regard for Col. Burr, but
the grave need not be opened for such
a purpose. In 1886, conveyed his re-
mains in my steamboat from Staten Is
land, where he died I'm poverty and OBJ
scurity, to his finale resting place /; and
when his body was carried ON shore by
my crew, to be put i'm car for Prince
ton, N. j., accompanied by only two OF
three distant relatives, / confess to be-
ing saddened, thus to see passing away
the remains Of a worse than ill.spent
life, "unwept' unhonored, and un-
sung"
That Aaron Burr had any reasonable
intentions against the United States, at
the time of his attempted expedition
against Mexico, never believed, but
he was many years in advance of the
age. His idea undoubtedly was to es-
tablish new Republic, perhapsa an en-
pire, over all that part of Northern
Mexico between the Rio Grande, the
Mississippi and the unlimited great
West. t.
Some five and twenty years after this
ignoble failure, Ex-Gov. Sam. Houston
of Tennessee caused a story to be circu-
lated in the newspapers, that in conse-
guence of the infidelity OF his wife he
had become disgusted with civilized So
ciety and had Joined tribe of wander
ing Indians on the Red river, was
painted and dressed In Indian costume,
and had been adopted as the son of a
great warrior and chief and from his
stalwart proportions and manly. figure,
was considered valuable acquisition
to the ruthless savages. All this ro-
nance very naturally created much
sympathy, and lively interest for so
sensitive husband, and so deeply i'm
jured q man but time--the revealer of
all secrets-.soOn found the white In
dian surveying and examining the
beautiful rivers and fertile plains of
Texas, and poisoning the minds of his
Indian friends against the Mexican
settlers, many of whom, innocent and
sunk beneath the deadly
of the treacherous Indians
After accomplishing his surveys, aud
securing the friendship of his Indian
allies for future use, he returned to
Tennessee and was elected to Congress;
but his brutal and dastardly attack OH
the Hon. Mr.. Stansberry, in the House
of Representatives, threw him out of
society in Washington, and he return
ed to Tennessee, where, with the secret
aid of the most powerful men In the
and the open purses OF the
and traders, he commenc-
ed and carried out successfully the or
iginal plan of Aaron Burr, the conquest
Of Texas; and of course IL was annexed,
State In the Union. Ihap-
pened to be in New Orleans at the time
he was charged with having courted an
with Great Britain, or rather
with her gold and heard his speech in
Of his character. He said
that his object In opening negotiation
was for the purpose ofarousing the nat
ural hatred and jealousies between this
country and England and for the i'm
prudent haste Of the Texas Congress,
he would have frightened the Ameri-
can Senate much earlier into the meas
lre of annexation.
saw him afterwards in New York,
and at Philadelphia, after he had be.
come more sobered, and was leading an
entirely different life. He proved, I'm
1851, q devoted friend to the Union, and
could not be induced to favor secession.
He was then urged to resign his gov
srnship of Texas, but resolutely refused
"a abandon position to which he had
been elected by the people. The rebels
hen passed an act of their Legislature
1eposing him, and swung the State |
over to the traitors. General Houston
lid not live to see the fulfilment of bis
prophecy that the South would be ruin
I'd by its suicidal course; his latteryears
we're his best ones, for after such an ex-
posed, eventful life, he calmly and se-
renely died the death OF good man
md Christian, in 1868. Phiiddelph
City Item.
BOys.-A son Of Scranton, the found
,r of Scranton, Pa, joined the ranks of
he laborers in his fathers founderies,
hat he might learn the practical part
,f the Iron business. The son of well
known and wealthy New York publish
sr used to leave his elegant home every
with his tin pail and IN the
yarb OF q laborer, and betake himself
% machine shop to labor as hard as
lie hardest, that he might learn the