Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-26
Alexander Hamilton and Aa.
ron Burr.

1ue uTSC puDllc efenI bhdt Icucm-
Der, when about six years of age, was
one of affiiction and sorrow. 1t was
the funeral procession of that brilliant
but unfortunate man, General Alexan-
der Hamilton, who fell in duel, in
1904, by the hand of Aaron Burr. As
the history of that sad event is well
known, it will not be necessary for me
to repeat it. There Is scarce doubt
that Colonel Burr, although occupying
the high and honorable office of Vice
President of the United States, deliber-
ately and attentively practiced the use
of the pistol until, as it was said, he
could hit the head of nail at many pa
ces distant, with the secret purpose of
taking General Hamilton's life, and this
more especially, when he had good rea-
son to believe-I will not say his ad-
versary, but the man who was his mark
intended to do no harm, and who,
when the preliminaries were all fixed
and the handkerchief was dropped as
signal to fire, turned the muzzle Of his
weapon upward and fired into the air,
while Burr aimed deliberately at his
victims heart.
There was mark set upon Cain after
his crime was committed, but whatever
it was, it was scarcely more perceptible
than that which Burr carried to the
day of his death. His mortal remains
indeed, from family influence, are in
TERED among the hon0red and pious
dead, in the cemetery of Princeton, N.
j., but during his life he was marked
man, bearing the mark of infamy. The
writer has often seen him perambula-
ting the streets of New York alone, with
a care-worn countenance, q slow-meas-
ured step, and an air of melancholy,
showing the unrest Of his soul, never
accompanied by any one unless by a
foreigner, and conversing either in
French or some other foreign tongue.
No American was ever seen with him,
unless to employ him to search musty
records for the purpose of hunting up
disputed deeds ON land titles, for which
he was renowned, and which seems to
have been The only business for which
he was considered trustworthy. for the
documents, if found, would speak for
themselves, and If not found, he would
receive no reward for his labor. But
not content with the murder of Hamil-
ton, this wretched man, in the famous
sBurr Conspiracy" Of which he was the
author, and in which he strove to set
up on our Southern border, and in parts
of Mexico, an empire, as rival to the
United States, s'contrived," as the coun-
sci of one of his victims, said, "by a
certain species of legerlemain, to shuttle
himself to the bottom of this business,
and bring to the surface poor Banner
hassit to suffer the consequences of his
treachery."
In considering the character of such
a mana man of refined culture and Of
splendid talents, but OF moral charac-
ter debased to the last degree of infamy
well may one say, "Gather not my
soul with sinners, nor my life with
bloody men," And the admonition
comes forcibly to all, ''Thus saith the
Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his
wisdom, neither let the mighty man
glory in his might, let not the rich man
glory in his riches, but let HIM that
glsrieth, glory in this, that he under
standeth and knoweth me, that am
the Lord which exerciseth loving kind
ness, judgment and righteousness in the
earth; for in these things l delight,
saith the Lord.'
threw this aside, and thought /
would not send It.; but your article
about the coming duel between JEFF.
Davis and Foote, has caused me to alter
my mind.-Inte, iOr.