Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1802. Excerpt: ... The Jrote of Mr. Burr in the Senate was received the federalifts as an open earneft of cordial attachment to their caufe as a fignal to embrace them. In a mpment he became the hero of federal prints, the fubjecT: offederal 4aubirjgj the fweet little Ifaac of the federal party. He was wife as Solon, juft as Ariftides, magnanimous as Csefar? Though his character was the fame as when he was every thing evii in federal eyes, h;s undignified and trimming vote in the Senate cleanfed the leper and made him immaculate. The federal party, with few exceptions, ? claimed him as their own, and Mr. Burr tacitly acknowledged the validity of their title. A more cordial intercourfe immediately took place: according fentiments were interchanged. Mr. Burr's yote in the Senate was the publication of the bands, and the 22nd of February, the birth day of Genera Wafhington was appointed for the confummation of the aV liance. Such as General Hamilton, concerning whom the followi/ig paragraph appeared in the Bofton Centinel, a federal paper. on the 5ih or 6th of July. 1802. .. The prelent enmity qf vice Prefident Burr, to General Hamilton, arofe from the circurnftance of the General's having;ufed all his influence with the members of the hcufs of Reprcfmtatives to induce the/n to prefer Mr. Jefferfon. when-the votes of Prefident were found to be equal between Jefferfon and Burr. This preference the vice Prefident has never forgiven, and many of the General's friends think he mijftd figure in that-preference.'.' _. On that day, the federalists of the two houfes of eon. grefs affembled at Stall's Hotel, to commemorate the nativity pf the revolutionary hero. The meeting was purely Jedcral, free from republican alloy. Mr. Governeur Motris prefided, Mr. Bayard of Delawa..."
