A history of the United States for Catholic schools . ever,it is believed, was to sever the southwestern states from theUnion and set up an independent nation in Texas and Mexico,with himself at the head. He was at length betrayed, arrested,and tried for treason by Chief Justice Marshall of the SupremeCourt, at Richmond, Virginia. The Constitution defines treasononly as levying war against the United States or in adheringto the enemy and giving them aid and comfort. Burr had neverbeen in a position to levy war or to aid an enemy. He was 288 A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES therefore released. Th
A history of the United States for Catholic schools . ever,it is believed, was to sever the southwestern states from theUnion and set up an independent nation in Texas and Mexico,with himself at the head. He was at length betrayed, arrested,and tried for treason by Chief Justice Marshall of the SupremeCourt, at Richmond, Virginia. The Constitution defines treasononly as levying war against the United States or in adheringto the enemy and giving them aid and comfort. Burr had neverbeen in a position to levy war or to aid an enemy. He was 288 A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES therefore released. The career which his brilliant talents mighthave made honorable and useful, was wrecked, and Burr livedlonely and despised for the rest of his days. 367. First Explorations of the Northwest. The LouisianaPurchase opened a great field for western emigration, andJefferson, realizing the importance of some knowledge of thenew territory, sent an expedition, under the leadership ofMeriwether Lewis and William Clark, brother of George Rogers #!^:iidiPsyfe?5. ROUTE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION Clark, to secure the trade of the Indians on the Missouri, thenabsorbed by English companies, and to explore the country tothe western ocean. Leaving the log cabin town of St. Louis inthe spring of 1804, the party pushed its boats up the Missouri,crossed over the Rocky Mountains and floated down the Colum-bia River to the blue waters of the Pacific, which it reachedin November, 1805, after a perilous journey of four thou-sand miles. The party returned the next year and gave thepeople of the East a glowing account of the vast illimitable THOMAS Jeffersons administration 289 West with its wonderful resources. The Lewis-Clark expedi-tion gave the United States another claim to the splendid regioncalled Oregon, early discovered (1790) by Gray. It strength-ened our rights to the Oregon country against the claims ofEngland and Russia; and it, together with Pikes explorations,gave the nation an idea
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