Memoirs of the Hon Thomas Jefferson Secretary of State Vice President And Pr
Memoirs of the Hon Thomas Jefferson Secretary of State Vice President And Pr
Carpenter Stephen Cullen
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283 Jefferson's own message) that Burr's guilt was placed beyond question. This being fortunately re lated to Colonel Burr, he challenged Mr. Giles, and offered to prove the facts. Every impartial man present was struck with horror. ---The Jeffer sonians frowned ; but were not abashed- --Giles, himself, was confused. The wisdom, the knowledge, and the inflexible integrity of the Chief Justice in declaring the law, and the impartiality of the jury, overcame all the efforts of the prosecutors, wh...ose intentions, as the trial advanced, became more and more transparent. Notwithstanding the abominable attempts made in the democratic prints to influence the public opi nion, and bias it in favour of the prosecution, the evidence of the witnesses was heard dispassionately and treated as it deserved. The testimony of Wil kinson was regarded at last with contempt, or worse, A young man from the State of Tennessee having been induced either by menaces or by money, or by some of those wily stratagems which are ever ready at the hands of the wicked, to make a false affidavit, the purport of which was to prove the guilt of Colonel Burr, in order to justify Wilkinson in his unlawful arrest of him, being sifted on his exa mination as a witness on the trial before the Chief Justice, contradicted point-blank his own affidavit, in every material circumstance it contained.
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