Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-02-02

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fed, the only redheaded man that was
ever chief magistrate Of this Republic,
the immortal Virginian, Thomas Jeffer-
son.
The s'sackwoods Ruhiann
AS witness for the defense appear
ed "a certain tall backwoods ruffian, =
as the newspapers of that day termed
him, who harangued the multitude
from the stoop Of a hotel in such a vio-
lent manner that he choked with his
own rage, who then, comparatively un-
known to fame was destined to per
form the most astounding feat Of arms
since the art Of war was first bruited
among men, to render his country and
the cause of human freedom inestina-
bic services as a statesman, to be hailed
as the foremost man Of all this world
and to win renown that will never.
never die-Andrew jackson Of Tennes-
see.
As a spectator Of that astounding
scene was youth Of abnormal physical
proportions veritable giant "a fa-
nous son of Anak "a student of the pa
cific profession cf the law, fated to
fighting career in which he won mill
tary laurels from the heart of frozen
Canada to the ancient halls of the Mon
tezumas, to he a lieutenant general Of
the United States and the worst defeat
ed candidate for the presidency ever
nominated by great party Winfield
Scott
At the reporters table sat hand
some, intelligent figure, born to be our
most distinguished man of letters, min
lister plenipotentiary and envoy extra
ordinary to the conrt Of Spain and
founder Of the American school of hui
morists Washington Irving of blessed
memory.
But above them all towers Burr, the
central figure the prisoner at the bar,
the keenest intellect and finest lawyer
in the lot absolutely certain of his
technical innocence of high treason,
the crime with which he was charged.
whose punishment was death upon the
gallows tree, smiling in the faces Of
his prosecutors and his prosecutors and
defying them to their very teeth.
Even man who believes him guilty
and who detests treason may still ad-
nire this soldier of the Revolution, the
companion of Arnold and the friend Of
Montgomery. the grandson of Jonathan
Edwards, the son of President Burr of
Princeton the slayer of Alexander
Hamilton, ex-viee president of the
United States, as he steps forth ruined,
but free, into God $ sunshine; for Grim
inal though he was, destituteof a moral
sense as the beasts that perish, still he
had demonstrated that he possessed
many of those qualities which men ap-
plaud and women love
aaron Carr and Matthew Quay.
Aaron Burr aud Matthew Stanley
Quay are both Warwicks, president
makers, if not king makers; greater in
deed than the original Warwick, as an
American president is greater than an
English king. Nothing is clearer in all
history than that Aaron Burr made
Thomas Jefferson president and that
Matthew Stanley Quay performed the
same office for Benjamin Harrison.
Both Burr and Quay cut tremendous
swaths in politics. The history of the
republic cannot be truthfully written
and leave them out Both are sons of
Presbyterian preachers, and both were
indicted for felony There the parallel
ceases by comparison very much to the
credit of Burr for be, broken in fortune
and without official position, boldly and
manfully fought his enemies ON their
own ground and conquered them,
while majority of his fellow citizens
were clamoring for his blood He
sought no delay. he indulged in no sub
terfuge. he interposed no cowardly mo-
tions he planted himself on the laws of
his country with the same magnificent
courage with which he stormed the
heights of Quebec. and coolly bade his
accusers to lay on and spare not.
Quay, a senator Of the United States,
renominated for another six years, the
unquesticned boss of his state. with one
powerful friend his senate mate. anoth-
er in the governors chair, another in
the White House, scores of others in
high places in state and nation, resorts
to every expedient known to the most
astute legal practitioners TO stave off
the inevitable ordeal He presents a
sorry. a pititul, a contemplate appear
ance when compared with the leonine
Burr, who is accounted the sinner para
mount Of his age Every criminal law
yer in the land knows full well that
Quay's applications for eontinuances
and changes of venue his motions to
quash. and his other efforts to gain
time mean that he and his lawyers are
afraid tc face "a jury of his peers -
God save the mark until he can stand
before them panoplied in new sena-
torial toga, hoping to overawe them by
its rustic and its sheen.
Ii is said by those who know him
well that il, private life he is the most
amiable of men. a kind husband. dot
ing father, a lender friend and charita-
ole to the poor All men even his po-
.itical enen,ies-wish him a safe de-
Iferance from his peril by demonstFa
ton of his innocence; for it concerns
the honor of our institutions that man
who has held the high positions which
have come to Senator Quay should not
be guilty of a crime for which thou
sands of men have been condemned to
striped uniforms and hard labor.
DanieI NJ. Burns.
But / did not begin this letter pri.
marily to write of Quay or even Burr,
who is a most fascinating theme always,
but to refer once more to the senatorial
candidacy Of one Daniel NJ Burns Of
California If one tithe Of what the San
Francisco Cali, stanch Republican
paper, says Of him is true. he ought to
be in the penitentiary instead of the
senate of the United States, and it proves
conclusively that we are far ON the road
to the deuce when such man can even
aspire to that high position with any
show of success. Even his candidacy
demonstrates the utter rottenness of Re
publican politics. The Call. after try
ing for weeks to express its own disgust
in its own vitriolic style, quotes among
much more of the same sort the follow
ing choice utterances from a sermon of
Rev. H. s. Brush of Alameda
The greatest crime of the century is
now proposed by pothouse politicians in
this state They would elect that Jail
bird Dan Burns to seat in the Unit
ed States senate. Such an act would be
an unspeakable outrage upon the people