The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-08
BURR AND JACKSON
-ssaID HICKORY DID NOT Re
ITEVE HIM GUILTY OF
TREASON.
JACKSON HIMSELF SUSPECTED


Burr and the Latter's Visits to the
tHermitage"-. Jackson was
ALWAYS the Most Loyal of Patriots--
Aaron Bur,'s Attempt 90 Capture
New Orleans, and his subsequent
Failure.
(Continued from Last Sundayl
G neral jackson, though born and
reared il the wood, became s gentle
man of diguiied and graceful manners
Captain HamiltQn, an English gentle
man who travelled in this country dur
ing Jackson's Presidency, expressed this
opinion of him, III an interesting book
of travels Parton says OF him, that he
became intimately acquainted with
Aaron Burr, during his brief service IN
Cong ress. and adds: That Jackson was
pleased with the man, and gratified with
his attentions, there IS abundant reason
to believe imagine too, that the Ten
nesseean caught from Burr something OF
that winning courtliaess of manner for
which he was afterwards di8tiT guished
above all the gentlemen of MS time, eX
cent Tecumseh and Charles \.
Jackson was drawn to Burr, who was
then a Senator from New York, not
merely by his fascinating manners,
but BIZ his cordial and efficient
support OF the application Of Tennes
see for admission into the Union; and
for his advocacy of the claim of Tennes
nee soldiersto be compensated for
their services in the war against the
Cherokees during their colonial condi-
ton.
Burr, il 1905, visited Nashville, aud
General Jackson, at the Hermitage
where he then resided in log cabin.
Burr was very popular in Tennessee,
owing to the circumstances above re
ferred to- His duel with Hamilton, the
great Federalist, was far from lujuring
his reputation in the West. A public
dinner was given him at Nashville.
where he was received as the great man
of the day. Flags, cannons and martial
music contributed to the eclat of his re
ception General Jackson was present,
of course, and proposed the toast, "Ail
lions for defence, not cent for tribute.
Burr accompanied him home, and re
NAMED with him five days In letter
to his daughter be expressed his as on
ishment at finding such number of
sensible, well informed, well behaved
people there He had been received
with much hospitality, he said, and could
stay month with pleasure. He was
then on his way South, and Gen. Jackson
furnished him with an open boat
in which to descend the Cumberland to
its mouth, where he expected to meet
his own boat, aud where he found it
waiting for him, in which he intended to
descen1 the Mississippi to New Orleans.
But he found General Wilkinson at Mas
sac, sixteen miles below the mouth Of
the Cumberland on his way to ST Louis
The General and his officers, he says,
fitted him out with an elegant barge,
sails, co!ors and ten oars, with ser
geant and ten able, faithful hands
In August of the same year, Burr,
on his return from New Orleans, visited
General Jackson, and remained eight
days with him. In his diary he states
that public dinner was given him, not
to the Vice President, but to A B He
had been iounging at the house OF Gen.
Jackson, he said, '.once a lawyer, after
Judge, now planter, a man Of intelli
gence, and one Of those prompt, frank,
ardent sou sswhom | love TO meet He
speaks OF two Of General Jackson's
nfeces, who had contributed greatly to
his amusement. and had cured
him of the evils OF his wilderness iaunt,
Addressing his daughter. he says: If
had time | would describe these two
girls, for they deserve it" Thee were
the nj, cas- of Mrs Jackson
Parton says there could be no doubt
as to the topic upon which Col. Burr
and Gen. Jackson chiefly conversed the
threatened war with Spain.
Hostility TO Spain in the West grew
out of the efforts of that power to block
up the mouth of the Mississippi and to
trammel the freedom of American com
merce through it. This i'll feeling sprang
up while Spain had possession of Louis
lana; but that country and all west of it,
in 1905, belonged TO the United States,
by purchase III 1903, from France. The
i'll feeling had not died out, hut the
cause of it had passed away, and pr0ba
bly, the west was now willing TO pick
quarrel with Spain about Texas. Spain
still held Florida, and claimed control of
the banks Of the Mississippi as high up
as Natchez or Vicksburg which she was
ioath to surrender. The west was aux
ious for war with Spain Gen. Jack
son strongly sympathized in that feeling;
and this western passion for war Mr.
Burr was anxious 10 cultivate, whatever
his ultimate purposes may have been.
March 24 1905, he wrote to General
Jackson from Washington, You have
doubtless before this time been con
WINGED that We are to have no war il it
can be avoided With honor or without it
The object OF the administration appears
to be to treat for the purchase of the
Fioridas; and the secret business which
so long occupied Congress is believed to
be an appropriation of two millions for
that purpose " Burr then goe on to
suggest to Jackson some immediate prep
arations for the contingency of war. He
was glad 10 learn that Jackson had his
division reviewed; but said he ought not
to confne his attention TO the officers
who, accidentally" bore commissions
Tennessee was full of fine materials for
an army, and "a brigade could be raised
in west Tennessee" by which he prin
cipally had in view, Middle Tennes
see, that would drive double their mum
Der OF FCenchmen off the earth,
He recommended to Jackson 10
make ont a list Of officers. from
Colonel .wn TO ensign, for one
or tTo regiments, composed of fellows
lit for business, and with whom you
would trust your life aud honor" lie
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