A history of the United States . overnmenther claims to Mississippi,Georgia had made con-flicting grants of lands onthe Yazoo, and some ofthe claimants now triedto get Congress to com-pensate them. Randolph,who was now at theheight . of his power,poured forth the vitriolof his wrath againstMadison and other ad-vocates of the Yazoo bill,and for years preventedits passage. Madison was,however, backed by Presi-dent Jefferson. The po-litical result was thatRandolphs friend Nathaniel Macon, of North Carolina,was defeated for the speakership, which he had held foryears, and Randolph was removed from
A history of the United States . overnmenther claims to Mississippi,Georgia had made con-flicting grants of lands onthe Yazoo, and some ofthe claimants now triedto get Congress to com-pensate them. Randolph,who was now at theheight . of his power,poured forth the vitriolof his wrath againstMadison and other ad-vocates of the Yazoo bill,and for years preventedits passage. Madison was,however, backed by Presi-dent Jefferson. The po-litical result was thatRandolphs friend Nathaniel Macon, of North Carolina,was defeated for the speakership, which he had held foryears, and Randolph was removed from the chairmanshipof the committee on ways and means. In July, 1804, Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in aduel. Already discredited by the Republican party, he wasnow generally regarded with abhorrence and his The Bun-political future seemed ruined. Returning to conspiracy,Washington he continued to preside over the ^ °Senate until the expiration of his term March 4, 1805, afterwhich he traveled extensively through the Robert Fulton. 222 National Organization The following year Burr began collecting men and sup-plies on an island in the Ohio River owned by an eccentricIrishman named Blennerhassett, and later proceeded downthe Mississippi with an armed expedition. What his realpurpose was has never been satisfactorily explained. Tomany of his supporters in the West he represented it as anattack on Mexico; to British and Spanish officials he de-clared his intention of wresting Louisiana from the Unionand organizing a new government in the Southwest, butneither of these powers would give him the aid he Natchez the expedition was stopped by the commanderof the garrison and Burr was later tried for treason beforethe United States Circuit Court sitting at Justice Marshall presided at the trial and John Ran-dolph was foreman of the jury. In spite of Jeffersonsefforts to secure a conviction Burr was acquitted. Burrlived abroad for several years, a
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