LIFE AND TIMES OF AARON BURR, LIEUTENANT-COLONEL IN THE ARMY OF THE REVOLUTION, AUTHOR OF "HUMOROUS POETRY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE,” EIGHTH EDITION. NEW YORK: MASON BROTHERS, 108 & 110 DUANE STREET. LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, SON & CO. BUHR/GRAD Undergraduate E 30216 ·B9 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the MASON BROTHERS, ear 1857, by In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. "As to Burr, these things are admitted, and, indeed, can not be denied, that he is a man of extreme and irregular ambition; that he is selfish to a degree which excludes all social affections; and that he is decidedly profligate." Alexander Hamilton. "A great man in little things, while he (Burr) is really small in great ones." Thomas Jefferson. "I witness your extraordinary fortitude with new wonder at every new misfortune. Often, after reflecting on this subject, you appear to me so superior, so elevated above all other men; I contemplate you with such a strange mixture of humility, admiration, reverence, love and pride, that very little superstition would be necessary to make me worship you as a superior being; such enthusiasm does your character excite in me. When I afterward revert to myself, how insignificant do my best qualities appear. My vanity would be greater, if I had not been placed so near you; and yet my pride is our relationship. I had rather not live than not be the daughter of such a man." Theodosia Burr Alston, to her Father, Aaron Burr. "Our friends and our enemies. draw' us—and, I often think, both |