Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . R AND HAMILTON DUEL. No one read the wicked character of Aaron Burr more unerringly thanAlexander Hamilton. He saw that he was ready to ruin his country for thesake of gratifying an insatiate ambition. Hamilton was always outspoken inex]iressing his opinions, and the hostility between the two became so bitterthat Burr challenged Hamilton to a duel. Although the latter had had a sonkilled through the barbarous code within the
Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . R AND HAMILTON DUEL. No one read the wicked character of Aaron Burr more unerringly thanAlexander Hamilton. He saw that he was ready to ruin his country for thesake of gratifying an insatiate ambition. Hamilton was always outspoken inex]iressing his opinions, and the hostility between the two became so bitterthat Burr challenged Hamilton to a duel. Although the latter had had a sonkilled through the barbarous code within the preceding year, he was foolishenough to accept the challenge, and the duel was fought at Weehawken, NewJersey, July 12, 1804. Hamilton fired in the air, but Burr aimed straight forhis antagonist and inflicted a wound from which he died the next day. Although Burr presided in the Senate after the duel, the whole countrywas shocked by the occurrence, and his friends fell away from him. In 1804,when Jefferson Avas re-elected to the presidency, George Clinton took theplace of Burr as Vice-President. Burr then engaged in a plot to form a THE BURR AND HAMILTON DUEL. Ill. new eiiipii-e in tlie southwest, the precise n:itiire of which is unceilaiii. He found ?^ a few to join with him, but it came to naught, and in 1>S07 he was tried at Richmond, Viri;inia, on the charge of treason, but acijuitted. He spent some vcars in wandering over Euro[)e, and then returned to resume the practice of hiw in New Yorlv. He died in obscurity and {lov- erty on Staten Island in 1836. A notable event of Jeffersons ad-ministrations was the first voyage of asloamboat up the Hudson. This was the Cler-iitont, tlie invention of Robert Fidton, whowas born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,in 1765. This boat was slightly oyer one hun-dred feet in length and about twenty feetbroad, with side paddle-wheels and a sheet-ironboiler brouglit from England. There was generalridicule of the idea of moving boats by ste
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