General Wilkinson And His Later Intrigues With the Spaniards volume 1
General Wilkinson And His Later Intrigues With the Spaniards volume 1
Isaac Joslin Cox
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His reference is measurably just, though indecorous. In the same missive he calls Claiborne "that beast", and demands his removal forthwith. -' But at the same time the general persuades the innocent governor that there was nothing criminal in his sugar transactions of 1804. By this means the youth- ful executive was led to acquiesce in the military chieftain's high- handed exercise of power. The public disclosures in the Western World and the hatred incurred by his recent course in New Orleans... caused him once more to ask his friend Folch to get him out of difficulty, Wilkinson had already given the Spanish executive minute though inaccurate information of Burr's movements and suggested 24 McCaleb, The Aaron Burr Conspiracy, passim ; Houck, Missouri, vols. II. , III. , passim. 25 Wilkinson, Memoirs, vol. II. , app. LIX. 26 McCaleb, p. 264 et seq. ; American Historical Review, IX. 533. 27 Annals, 11 Cong. , 2 sess. , II. 2359—2360. General Wilkinso7i and Jiis Spanish Intrigiics 804 that the other should secure Baton Rouge against the projected attack of the Kentucky insurgents.
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