The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-11

male character to admire man of dar- ing and generous impulses, and to pity and defend him in his adversitieS.
 Arriving at the Boat Yard, Burr disem- parked and was delivered to the guard which was so long to be with him in dangers and faugues, It consisted of Col. Nicholas Perkins, of Tennessee, who had, as we have seen, been the cause of his arrest, Thomas Malone, formerly clerk in the Land Office at Raleigh, N. C., but who at this period was Clerk of the Court of Washington County, Ala, Hen- ry B. Shade of North Carolina, John Miles, a native of Alabama, John Henry of Tennessee, two brothers named Mo- Cormack, of Kentucky, and two Federal soldiers. With the exception of the two soldiers, Perkins had chosen these men on account of the confidence which he reposed in their honor, energy and fldel- ity. He had been placed over them by Captain jaines, who entertained a high opinion of his bravery and capacity. Per kins took his men aside and obtained from them the most solemn pledge that they would not suffer the prisoner to influence them in any manner in his behalf, to avoid which they promised to converse as little as possible with him upon the whole route to Washington. The character of Burr for making strong im- pressions in his favor upon the human mind was well known to Perkins. When the prisoner fled from the Natchez set dement's he assumed a disguised dress. He was still attired in It. It consisted of coarse pantaloons, made of homespun of a copperas dye, and a roundabout of inferior drab cloth, while his hat was a Tapping, wide brimmed beaver, which had in times past been white, but now 1 the guard was ready to depart he mount ed the same elegant horse which he rode when arrested. He bestrode him most gracefully, flashed his large dark eyes upon the many bystanders. audlbly bade them farewell, and departed. Perkins and his men were well provided with large pistols, which they carried in holsters, while the two soldiers had maskets. They left the boat yard, a qua .r of a mile from which the terrible massacre of Fort Mims afterwards occurred, and. pursuing the Indian path, encamped the first night in the lower part of the present county of Monroe The only tent taken along was pitched for Burr. and under 1t he lay the first night by large fires, which threw a glare over the dismal woods. All night his ears were saluted with the fierce and disagreeable bowling of wolves. In the wilds of Alabama, in a small tent, reposed this remarkable man, surrounded by a guard, and without a solitary friend or congenial spirit. He was a prisoner of the United States, for whose liberties he had fought; and an exile from New York, whose statutes and institutions bore the impress of his mind
 Death had deprived him of his accomp- lished wife, his only child was on the distant coast of Car oli Ia, his professional al ,ig swept from him, the magnificent scheme of the conquest of Mexico uefeated. and he was harr sed from one end of the Union 70 ihe 'tAvr All these thias & w-re sulil.cai e weigh down 4n Drd.Hary re- ing and hurry aim te the grave. Bu-r
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