The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-10-05
Weighed and Fond WANTING.

The reading of Blennerhasset would cause those whose
Judgment apt to be obseured by sentiment to regard
aaron Burr as much-maigued angel But after reading
that novel and THE Climax" (Mr Pidsins latest eontr
button to the hero-worshp Of BURR is good and profit
aee to read Champ Cark brilliant and balanced Grafton on
aaron Burr which Grafton is to be found in Modern
Eloquence That Burr is judged fairly and nor maligned
can be seen from the following excerpts:
1t is with pity unspeakabe that one reads the story
Araon Burr II is the addes chapter in the annals
the human We from the perusa OF that check
cred hte-of so much glory and much shame--wth the
settled conviction that there but thing needfu TO
have made him OF the Respondent figures in
American history moral OF that he was as des
ute the beasts which perish And for this fatal deficiency
nothing compensateueher brilliant talents nor lofty
eloquenee, profound learning, eoune courage nor
wnsome manners sparkling wit handsome presence
nor amab qualities renowned ancestry With all these
good within themselves and universally coveted by the
children Of men-Aaron Burr was lavishy endowed by
nature in her most prodigal Of moods but she withheld from
him the most precious of her giftsa pure and honest
heart On the contrary she placed in his bosom which
in the language OF the Holy Writ deceul above all
things and desperately wicked the law books say
regardless of social duty and fatally on mischief
That he did many things which right there be
cavl but after reading all the biographies written
Of him and all that history has tell do believe that
be truthfuly asserted that he did anything
right lett anything undone because
wrong To fill long felt want, the lawyers have invented
the phrase moral insanity the ineurable defect in Burrs
makeup moral-idocy TO speak that is say he
constonaly and utterly void of moral principle and
wholly incapable of discerning apprecating it in others
Morally he totally color blind
Whether outstrping all his fellows Princeton de-
berately scouting the religion OF his fathers fighting
vaantly soldier Of the revolutions making love all
women bewtching many and marrying widow older than
himself standing proudly the head Of the New York bar
filling the great Offices of attorney general senator OF the
United States and vice president remaining silent and
motonless when a word motion would have made him
presidents killing Alexander Hamilton il duel fleeing in
disguise fugitive from justice dreaming Of empire him
self the emperor plotting the and disraemberment Of
his country on trial for his life charge of high
vagabond in Europe today; dancing with ladies Of the
Nlood sta in
mufhed neognito to his native land by his old
acquaintance, repused by his quondam friends at the
age of nearly oseore wedding Madam Jume against her
will; carrying for forty years load of oboquy sufficient
have damned half the world at last the banks OF the
River Styx cracking jokes with the grim ferryman himself
anywhere everywhere in all places at all times and under
all circumstances he the same bland bold brilliant
amiable seductive plausible Saavey in mode orter in
and utterly without trace OF conscience"