Identifier: lifeofjohnmarsha5759beve (find matches)
Title: The life of John Marshall
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah, 1862-1927
Subjects: Marshall, John, 1755-1835 United States. Supreme Court Statesmen Judges
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co.

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The results of his encounter with Hamilton had
has been as fatal as to his standing with the Federalists,
who had but recently fawned upon him, as it was
to the physical being of his antagonist. What now
followed was as if Aaron Burr had been the pre-
destined victim of some sinister astrology, so utterly
did the destruction of his fortunes appear to be the
purpose of a malign fate.
His fine ancestry now counted for nothing with
the reigning politicians of either party. None of
them cared that he came of a family which, on both
sides, was among the worthiest in all the country.¹
His superb education went for naught. His brilliant
services as one of the youngest Revolutionary off-
cers were no longer considered — his heroism at
Quebec, his resourcefulness on Putnams staff, his
valor at Monmouth, his daring and tireless efficiency
at West Point and on the Westchester lines, were, to
these men, as if no such record had ever been written.
Nor, with those then in power, did Burrs notable
¹ His father was the President of Princeton. His maternal grand-
father was Jonathan Edwards.
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AARON BURR

THE BURR CONSPIRACY 277

public services in civil life weigh so much as a feather
in his behalf. They no longer remembered that only
a few years earlier he had been the leader of his
party in the National Senate, and that his appoint-
ment to the then critically important post of Min-
ister to France had been urged by the unanimous
caucus of his political associates in Congress. None
of the notable honors that admirers had assertedt
o be his due, nor yet his effective work for his party,
were now recalled. The years of provocation¹ which

Hamilton's pursuit of Burr was lifelong and increasingly venom-
ous. It seems incredible that a man so transcendently great as Hamil-
ton — easily the foremost creative mind in American statesmanship
— should have succumbed to personal animosities such as he dis-
played toward John Adams, and toward Aaron Burr.
The rivalry of Hamilton and Burr began as young attorneys at the
New York bar, where Burr was the only lawyer considered the equal
of Hamilton.

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