The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-10-14
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BILL ARP'S LETTER.
Arp on Aaron Burr.
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talk to his friends ab"ut the good old
times. He is a harness maker by
trade, and perches on his stool aud
rslks while he works and feels the
feeling of an honest, lndust' ious mau
Apprentic. d to the trade when he Wa,
fourteen years old, he has continuous.
~ pursued his calling for s.venry
years, and in all that time I do not
suppose that he ever drfrauded any
man. / have never heard him com.
plain If his lot OF Of hard times.
never heard him abuse an. body NOR.
than to say. He should no have done
that. 1t is wrong What pity;
what pity" And yet he is m.n
Of opinions and convictions and does
not he itate to express them.
How came old Father Carnochan
TO be SO industrious and wo,k 81 hard
and live SO long and enjoy life, end
good health? Hesays he reckon,
it just happened ;, but my opinion is
that his early habi's had much to dc
with it. For seven years he was
"bnund out" as we used to cal! it.
Bound to saddle and harness maker
iu New York city to lean the trade
That Used 10 be common at the north,
and have known some cases of The
south in The long ago, but net many.
My father had an orphan boy bound
to him for seven years, and the covenant
was board and clothing and two
months schooling every year and 5000
in money at the end of his time. He
was smart, handsome snd willing, ana
made g.a.d merchant and married
we'll.
Mr.. Carnochan says he had to work
dillig. ntIy, and by the time bis term
was out. the habit Of work was Gxe.
upon him and k,pt him out of mus.
chief: There IL the secret. But few
of our boys have formed habit OF
work If they du any at all, they
loos up"n it as q hardship.
The old man says that Aaron Burr
traded at,heir shop, and he remembers
him we'll, a handsome, c',urtly old
gentleman dressed in tip-tnp fashion
and with manners like Lord Chester
field. Years b. fore b. had been forced
to lea, the country ann lived in ex.
lie. but he came buck when the storm
blew over and he was such a greal
lawyer that he soon got lots of practice
and made lots of money. He drove
fine horses and was o high-born aristo'
crat and never lost 8 minutes sleep
about killing Hamilton.
I was terminating about that, fol
there il nc story like it in American
biography. The young people ough,
to read it. His 'athrr's name was
Aaron Burr and he was a very learned
and pious preacher and teacher. He
was founder and first president oi
Princeton college, and is buried there,
and six other presidents are buried
near him. He married Esther, the
only daughter of Jonathan Edward,
the great preacher and profound think.
er. a man whose sermons made The
people tremble and CRY out and beg
for mercy. The younger Aaron had
sister named Esther, and these two
were left orphans ut an early age
They had good estate and the best
of guardians, and received a good
educati n. Aaron was sent to Prince.
nn. where he graduated with dis
tinrt,on. It was expected that he,
too, would be a preacher, but he sud
denly ast"nisbed bis friends by de.
nouncing Christianity as a humbug
and declared his admiration for Lord
{ htst+r6eld, whom, he said, was the
finest gentleman in the world. Then
he studied law. and soon became the
top of the profession. When the rev.
olutionary war was impending he was
given high po-i1ior, and br' anne an
inmate of General Wasbingtn's family;
but he did not like Washington's
steady habits and religious principles,
and !. # him. At the close OF the war
he married wealthy widow-a Mrs
Provost, an accomplished and pi us
Christian woman. She became th-
mother Of 1heodosia, ceIekrat, d in h.r
day for her beauty and her graces Ct
mind and heart, and universally
lamented for her sad and mysterious
fa'e. Her only son died when he was
thirteen years old. and she herself was
lost at 4ea but few weeks after; M
me ever heard OF the vessel after il
sailed from Charleston. There are
many stories about it having been
seized by pirates and Theodosla with
other passengers being made TO walk
the fatal. plank that dropped them
into the sea.
Not long before this sad event Burr
had f reed Hamilton to fight q duel
with him, and killed him, not onl
without regret, but with unfein'd sat
isfaction. This put him under th-
ban, and he had to fly to avoid arrest.
He fled 10 arolins, where his daugh.
ter Ii. ed. She had married Joseph
Alstnn, one of South Carolina's bes,
citiz- rs, and who afterwards became
governor Of the State.
Burr was the vice president of the
United States when he killed Hamil.
ton. After this he conceiv. d q great
pulitlcal scheme to found limi ed
monarchy in the southwest, with New
Orleans as the seat of government, anc
he was to be the monarch Hi
treaso, able desigus We're dis overed,
and he was arrested and tried, ano
ba' ely escaped conviction. Theodosia
saved him through her pl' adings, her
devotion and her fascinating beauty
But such was thu public temper that
be had to exile himself and escape to
Paris, where he lived for several year.
under the assumed name of Arnot
When he dared to rerurn he resumed
The practice of law in New York, and
on becamd entangled in many scan.
dals and int,igues. When he wss
seventy years old he Was etill hand