The history of the Louisiana purchase . to their habit,gathered at the levee, they found their inter-188 what a Century Has Brought Forth est excited by a handsome barge impelled byten oarsmen, which, sweeping around thebend above the city, presently made a land-ing. Then stepped ashore a small but hand-some and distinguished figure, who as soon ashe became known was received with all possi-ble respect. It was Aaron Burr, up to thistime the most noteworthy public man whohad appeared in New Or-leans since it passed intothe new ownership. Thegrandson of Jonathan Ed-wards, he inherited re-markabl
The history of the Louisiana purchase . to their habit,gathered at the levee, they found their inter-188 what a Century Has Brought Forth est excited by a handsome barge impelled byten oarsmen, which, sweeping around thebend above the city, presently made a land-ing. Then stepped ashore a small but hand-some and distinguished figure, who as soon ashe became known was received with all possi-ble respect. It was Aaron Burr, up to thistime the most noteworthy public man whohad appeared in New Or-leans since it passed intothe new ownership. Thegrandson of Jonathan Ed-wards, he inherited re-markable abilities, whichhe had used to such advan-tage that he had attainedeverything but the highestplace. He had failed bybut one electoral vote of be-coming President insteadof Jefferson; but as Vice-President he wasclose at the front. His moral worth did notequal his political distinction. He had shownthat he could be trusted„b-y. n ei th exjaan. npzwoman; he had killed in a duel AlexanderHamilton, perhaps the most useful man in the189. History of The Louisiana Purchase country at tlie time; and now in the ill-knit,unstable Union, not as yet well adjusted andin good working skape under the Constitution,he saw his selfish advantage in promotingtreasonable schemes for breaking apart, rathertnan for bringing to pass harmony. Whatprecisely Aaron Burr designed has never beenknown, probably was never distinctly out-lined in his own mind. He meant, no doubt,that events should determine how far hemight go. Baffled in his ambition in the East,he resolved to make a trial in the AVest, hop-ins^ that throuo:h some dismemberment of thenation, and some robbery of Spain, AaronBurr might sit exalted. He had won Blenner-hassett; Wilkinson had lent an ear to hispropositions. Henry Clay and Andrew Jack-son, young men on the threshold each of agreat career, the one in Tennessee, the otherin Kentucky, had felt the spell of his fasci-nation, but recoiled at the suggestion of dis-loyalty. Claiborne,
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