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JEFFERSON, Thomas. Autograph document signed ("Th: Jefferson"), as President, to The Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, 23 November 1807. 1 page, 4to.
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JEFFERSON, Thomas. Autograph document signed ("Th: Jefferson"), as President, to The Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, 23 November 1807. 1 page, 4to.
JEFFERSON TRIES TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT AFTER THE OUTRAGE OF BURR'S ACQUITTAL ON CHARGES OF TREASON, as he ehere transmits the trial record to Congress. Jefferson despised Burr ever since their 1800 Electoral College deadlock. Saddled with him as vice-president, he kept Burr as far out of the loop as possible. By the time of the 1804 election, Burr had dug his own political grave by killing Alexander Hamilton and becoming a fugitive from justice in the Mississippi Valley region. That is where Burr hatched his mad plan of becoming an American "conquistador" with a motley band of just 60 mercenaries to help him. Jefferson had Burr arrested, indicted for treason and brought to trial in the U. S. Federal Court in Richmond, Virginia--where Jefferson's sworn enemy, John Marshall, was the presiding trial judge. With Marshall doing all he could to sway the jury, Burr won acquittal. In September 1807, the jury voted Burr not guilty as charged. An outraged Jefferson wrote prosecutor George Hay: "The event has been what was evidently intended from the beginning of the trial, that is to say, not only to clear Burr, but to prevent the evidence from ever going before the world" (Malone, 5:339). In presenting that record here to Congress, Jefferson hopes that the overwhelming evidence of Burr's guilt, and of the Chief Justice's unconscionable partisanship, would be available to the American public.
JEFFERSON TRIES TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT AFTER THE OUTRAGE OF BURR'S ACQUITTAL ON CHARGES OF TREASON, as he ehere transmits the trial record to Congress. Jefferson despised Burr ever since their 1800 Electoral College deadlock. Saddled with him as vice-president, he kept Burr as far out of the loop as possible. By the time of the 1804 election, Burr had dug his own political grave by killing Alexander Hamilton and becoming a fugitive from justice in the Mississippi Valley region. That is where Burr hatched his mad plan of becoming an American "conquistador" with a motley band of just 60 mercenaries to help him. Jefferson had Burr arrested, indicted for treason and brought to trial in the U. S. Federal Court in Richmond, Virginia--where Jefferson's sworn enemy, John Marshall, was the presiding trial judge. With Marshall doing all he could to sway the jury, Burr won acquittal. In September 1807, the jury voted Burr not guilty as charged. An outraged Jefferson wrote prosecutor George Hay: "The event has been what was evidently intended from the beginning of the trial, that is to say, not only to clear Burr, but to prevent the evidence from ever going before the world" (Malone, 5:339). In presenting that record here to Congress, Jefferson hopes that the overwhelming evidence of Burr's guilt, and of the Chief Justice's unconscionable partisanship, would be available to the American public.