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[Frontispiece: Theodosia]
"I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."
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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1836, by
in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.
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Colonel Burr's study of the law; shortness of his study; differentopinions respecting his law learning; his definition of law; hismanner of preparing causes and of conducting suits; his maxim forsluggards; tendency to mystery in his practice; fondness forsurprising an opponent; an illustration of this remark; his treatmentof associate counsel; nice discrimination in the selection ofprofessional agents; their various characteristics; the same acutenessdisplayed in politics; anecdote on this subject that occurred duringthe contested election in 1800; great coolness and presence of mind incivil as well as military life; an example in the death of Mr. P.;commenced practice at the close of the revolution under the mostfavourable auspices; multiplication of his papers; condensation apeculiar trait in his mind; never solicited a favour from an opponent;a strict practitioner; character of his mind; manner of speaking;accorded to General Hamilton eloquence; an incident in relation toHamilton and Burr in the cause of Le Guen vs. Gouverneur and Kemble;letter from John Van Ness Yates explanatory of Chief Justice Yates'snotes on that occasion; the effect he produced as a speaker; hisdisplay of extraordinary talents on his trial at Richmond; his legalopinions on various important occasions; a letter from him evincinghis great perseverance when nearly eighty years of age
A brief history of the rise of political parties in the state ofNew-York; the city of New-York the rendezvous of the tories, fromwhich they communicated with the British ministry during the war;feelings of the whigs on this subject; Joseph Galloway, ofPhiladelphia, sails in 1778 for England; his correspondence with theloyalists extensive; extracts from various letters written during thewar of the revolution, viz., from the Reverend Bishop Inglis, fromIsaac Ogden, from Daniel Cox, during the year 1778; from John Potts,from Daniel Cox, from Isaac Ogden, from Daniel Cox, from Thomas Eddy,from Bishop Inglis, from John Potts, from Bishop Inglis, from IsaacOgden, from Bishop Inglis, from Isaac Ogden, from Daniel Cox, duringthe year 1779; from Charles Stewart, David Sproat, and James Humphrey,Jun., printer, in 1779, in which General Arnold's tory sympathiesare alluded to; from Bishop Inglis, John Potts, and Christopher Sower;from David Ogden, with the plan of a constitution for the governmentof the American colonies after the whigs are conquered
Defeat of General Schuyler as a candidate for the office of governorof the state of New-York, in opposition to George Clinton, in