The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-12

I believe, are well understood by tho ah-
ministration and seenb by the c-omplaccncy;
every good citineu must approve. Con
siderine the high station you nav mn i'm
these expianasions proner,as well to co.sn-
teract the chimerical tales which maievc-
lent per.ons have industriously circulated,
esithe cause Of a man In any way unfriend-
~ 70 the laws. government or the interests
The peridy Of Burr In more glarine
when we remember that ON July 10, pre-
vious tn his written declaration 60 Mr..
son Of the United States army, stationed
I'm the South as follows: ~ have obtained
funds and have actually commenced the
points, under different pretenses, will
rendezvous ON (the) Ohio. November 1;
sEissy.n n9S;c snier"a az 1 EnsinnG 'h IL assHrsd
$50 Wilkinson shall he second tn
Burr only; Wilkinson shall dictate the
will proceed Westward August I.
never :" return. a.. Al
given tn forward six months provision to
points Wilkinson may name; this shall
not he used until the last moment, and
iscn i ., Srar HrI ,o II. ,n nnins y" i"au t Desired prG.
Burr guarantees the result with his life
and honor, with the lives, the honor, the
our Burr's plan OF operation is
to move down rapidly from the. Falls ON
the 18TH of November with The first 500 ar
loo men, i'm light boats now constructing
for that purpose, tn he at Natchcx etwee
the 9th and 18th Of December, there to
whether IL will be cxpedicnt in he first
instance tn seize on Baton Rouge" etc..
When we compare the two ietters-the
other To General Wilkinson, July ~. pre-
cedin9 we can find little sympathy ar re-
spcct Tor a man who. born 70 be great.
falsehoOd as contained i'm Mr.. Burr's note
tn Mr.. Clay. His positive assurance that
the overnmen or to disturb, the tran
guilty of the United States" when, but "a
few months before, Inc had written to
"move down rapidly from the falls on the
the 18TH of November with the first 500 or
1,OUO men, i'm light boats now construct
ones estimation below the commonest
feeling of contempt. Mr.. Clay was so in
him that. meeting him aftcrwari in New
York, he refused to accept ar notice his
profferssd hand i'm salutation, but turned
his back upon him.
BURR's TRIAL.
The trial Of Burr, i'm Frankfort, for
treason, WAS little less than n farce. The
democratic partyIshs party 81 pr.sidsns
then i'm Kentucky as now, while the fed
eralist party was as unpopular as in the
Hamilton Daveiss, the United States at
torney, was u federnlist, and his attempt-
ed prosecution of Burr was termed ''per.
secution" by his political enemies, and
obstacles were thrown i'm his way at every
step. hut, nothing daunted, and strong
in the belief tina, Burr was guilty, he com
terry that seemed to develop the arch intri-
gue. He went to st. Louis, where
ton. pursuing his Investigations, and ON
his return made oath i'm the federal
court, 'that he was informed and dia:
verify believe that Aaron Burr, for several
months past, had been, and IL now en-
gagged, I'm preparing and setting ON foot,
sna ! is n pr,GxiIins and H;ep"rimf the means
Sessendi%s the Ohio and Gississippi
jsc,s VI 4. n King % ai spsi m"' "f HI. the %o s.n,
was overruled 10y Judge Innes. as ''unpre-
and illegal" But Burr, who
prosecution. had the "public nudacity'' to
present himself before the court AMI de
''for which," as he said, ..he wa always
ready, and therefore OF course
his pretended innocence, or what, in
.cheek," but strengthened his cause with
the people. Daveiss, however, not tn he
discouraged, asked but time TO get his
witnesses, which, 10y the request of Burr,
was granted; after which,, the arch con-
spirator," says MARSHALL, the historian,
saying that the good people of Kentucky
might, and he hoped they would, dismiss
their fears for the present; that, i'm fact,
ttT WAS Up RrNbttttti 81 tlltUts wIlshteNeE
efforts had been made to excite them;
that hc had understood some had been
made tai apprells MI that he was pursuing
means mimic To their peace, but they
wers. misinformed, as they would find il
MIR. Attorney should ever get ready and
open his investigation; that i'm the mean
time they would Ia, in no manner of dam
ger from him; that he had To act on the
defensive only; that he should expect
moth attack, and hold himself ready
for it,"
The day of the trial came, and as AL
ready stated. the trial itself was hut IA
farce. Burr was acquitted and his sac
quittal was received by u burst of APP
plauss from the spectators" says the his
torian, $50 intense was the popular sym
pathy for Burr. Thus did the willy acts of
this consunlmate intriguer hoodwink, not
only contiding friends, hut the judicial
tribunals of the country, and convert
what should have been the instruments of
his detection and punishment into trum-
pets of praise and vehicles of confidence
In his trcachery and treason" So clatcd
were the friends of Burr at his honor
able acquittal" that q grand hall was
given i'm his honor at Frankfort. This was
followed by raother given in honor OF
Colonel Dav Z .. and the-e seemed imn-
nsnt danger al n collision between the two
parties. and probably there would have
been hut for the denoument, which came
sooner than even Burr's enemies dared to
expect.
President Jefferson issued his proclama-
ts,s. .l.,,. m. sI.s. Ss,k,aI.. .tn,r... ns..1