Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-06-29

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your paying me hereafter. A part OF
my work, the most disagreeable and
the most dangerous part too, Is done
Your bond to me is uncanceled, and
you have no right to lessen my secur-
ity for its future payment"
Suppose 1 admit the force Of your
reasoning, how will you prove that
jeopardize your interests by refraining
from further acts Of hostility to Major
Burr?"
1T needs no proof. The proposition
Is self-evident. You may remember
the fable Of the serpent which stung a
child and killed it. The father endeav-
ored to destroy the reptile, but only
succeeded in striking off a part of its
tail. Afterwards reconciliation took
place, and the two engaged in friendly
conversation. The man pressed the
serpent to come out from his hole; an
invitation his snakeship politely de-
clined. why not come out? asked the
man. Are we not friends?' oh, yes!
but your dead child and my shortened
tail are not; and we should quarrel on
their account You are in the condi-
ton of the serpent. There is that be-
tween you and Aaron Burr that makes
a truce impossible, and If you leave
your hiding place before you have an
opportunity to sting him, you are
lost"
Something not exactly a sneer, nor
yet a smile-a compound expression of
anger and modification, curled the lip
Of Hamilton, and impaired a tone Of
bitterness to his reply
Il presume you do not expect me to
thank you for the compliment deduct
BILE from your story, and its applica-
ton. That Major Burr Is a true man
I know; that he Is a man Of genius all
report agrees: yet did not know that
you held him In such high esteem, or
re rarded me as so deficient In like
qualities, as to render an open contest
between us one of certain defeat to me.
You will pardon me, 1 trust, II my van
ity prevents me from looking at the
picture in the same light that you do.
I am 10th to believe that l may not
couch a lance at his breast on terms
of equality"
"Six months ago you might have
done so; but within that time events
have transpired that put you at per-
ilous disadvantage. What would be-
come Of your open rivalry, If he should
discover and proclaim your agency In
bringing about the quarrel between
himself and the commander in chief?
l will not refer to other matters, as
they are disagreeable to you. That
alone would be sufficient to blast you
in the estimation of your comrades and
your superiors. What security can you
have that he does not make the discov-
cry? Or suppose he does not, you Will
be forever haunted by the fear OF de-
lection. Your resolutions will be vacil-
lating, and your efforts will be timid.
Can you doubt what use a bold and
sagacious adversary would make Of
such advantages? Be assured that II
you mean to run out the race Of ambi-
ton in which you have entered, you
must crush Aaron Burr without his
knowing the hand that deals the blow.
For you there is no return; and hesi-
tation Is destruction. The ambitious
aspirant can hope for no forgiveness
when his errors are exposed; for the
only evidence of amendment that will
be received is an abandonment Of the
designs he has cherished. You have,
indeed, the alternative Of retiring to
private life, or Of contenting yourself
in a subordinate position. When you
are no longer In the way. men may
overlook your former indiscretions, and
extend to you the charity Of forgetful-
ness. If you have made up your mind
to this course, it is but fair that you
should take upon yourself the blame
for what has passed, and leave me un-
impeded by any other enmities than
those with which you found me. If, on
the other hand, you are resolved not
to abandon your hopes Of power and
greatness, there is no alternative ex-
cept a steady persistence In the plans
we have adopted. Major Burr must
be kept too busy in repelling new ac-
cusations to allow him leisure for
minute inquiries into the sources
of old ones. In my judgment, this
will be easy; for 1 repeat that l be-
lieve he is guilty this time, and in
his efforts to hide the real crime, he
will be very apt to overlook the false
accusation"
And l repeat" answered Hamilton,
that l do not and cannot believe him
guilty; though to you, who are a
doubter of the existence of virtue, my
reasons may appear ridiculous. He Is
100 highly esteemed by General Put
nam, and too warmly loved by his wife,
to have committed an act of such fla
grant immor Atty beneath their roof. /
cannot be mistaken. He is as certainly
| innocent as l am. There may have
been some love passages between them
for she is a girl we'll calculated to in
spire the utmost madness of passion
but If so. they were of an honorable
nature. and both General Putnam and
his wife have been apprised of what
ever has taken place"
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