Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-25

not change my status and your alien act
does not apply to me-"
His lordship agreed with him.
1t was only a respite, however. In q
few months he was arrested. This timo
Lord Liverpool was the moving spirit.
Again Burr protested, but his lordshtp
was not TO be swayed.
Your presence Is an embarrassment to
he said
Burr went to Sweden. From there,
after a stay OF five months. he journeyed
to Denmark. From Denmark he went TO
Germany. At Weimer he met Goethe. In
some places he was welcome, but in
others he was not. He had no money
except the little he was able to get from
america through his daughter or from
former clients who owed small sums to
him. From Germany he went TO Paris.
and there he had the most poverty
stricken days of his life. In all his wan
derings and in all his hardships he had
one companion. Wherever he went he
took with him an oil painting Of the one
woman he loved-his daughter This he
placed in the position OF honor, whether
Some of the most beautiful things he
wrote in his long life are about the Joy
this portrait of his beloved child brought
to him in those days.
One streak of good luck came to him
I'm Paris. An American named Griswold.
whom Burr had befriended years before.
not only insisted upon aiding him finan-
cially, but induced him to enter on a lit
tie speculation that netted him 1000
francs. Then the long-delayed passport
was furnished to him and he prepared to
return to America. The clouds OF war
were gathering. He knAw another con-
hict between the United States and Great
Britain was imminent.
-.
He hoped for an opportunity to rehabfl-
itate himself by offering his sword to his
country. One day in 1911 he sailed. happy.
hopeful and more at peace with tho world
than he had been for seven years. But
fate was not finished with its buffetings.
The ship was captured by an English
frigate, and Burr. who had given all his
money to get the ship away from port,
was landed In England penniless.
For five months he lived on money he
realized from the sale Of some of his
books. Then he managed to engage pas
sage on the ship Aurora, sailing from
Gravesend. When he got to Gravesend
the Aurora had sailed-was several miles
out at sea. Somehow he induced boat
men to row him out to sea in an effort
to evertake the ship. Hour after hour
they rowed Twenty-od miles from shore
they overlook the Aurora and Burr went
aboard.
He landed in Boston without dollar
The last of his precious books were sold
to Harvard University for enough to get
1872. he arrived in the city from which
he had fed eight years before. No effort
was made to prosecute him for the killing
of Hamilton. No chance came to him to
get a command i'm the army, SO he re-
sumed the practice of law. In the first
case in which he appeared 1t was planned
by those who detested him to hiss him
and drown his voice when he arose to
speak. But when he arose and looked
with those wonderful eyes upon the hostile
crowd not one Of those who had come to
hiss uttered a sound.
Business came to him In abundance, and
ii seemed the skies were Frightening for
Aaron Burr. but ii was not to be. From
the south his daughter sailed to meet the
of succeeding him as Emperor Of Mexico,
had died and she was broken hearted
over her loss. Day after day Burr went
to the Battery to watch for the ship that
was bringing his daughter to him. Day
after day he returned disappointed. Week
followed week and month followed month
Never was the ship heard from.
The man who had withstood every
other blow with fortitude was almost
crushed by this one. For a long time he
went into retirement. Then he returned
to his work. beginning anew at fifty-six.
For twenty-four years he practis ed at the
bar and for those twenty-four years he
had his hand In politics, but naver openly.
Enemies he had without number. Never
did he appear in public that reproachful
eyes were not turned upon him. He went
his way. seemingly unconcerned, but bit
ter at heart. Many stories are told OF
his gallantries with women before he
killed Hamilton. Many others are told
of his affairs after his return to America
He married Nine. Jumel when he was
seventy-eight and they separated Within
few months.
Remarkable man. When he was stricken
with paralysis 1T was a woman-almost a
stranger-who took him in ana cared for
him until he died
At Princeton College, where he was
educated and where his father was presi-
dent and his grandfather. too. they laid
his body to rest when he died
Veterans of the revolutionary war fired
salute over his grave. Today the SPOT
where his dust remains Is marked by n
simple marble monument on which Is in
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