Aaron Burr: Address to the Court on Innocence of Treason - Milestone Documents

Aaron Burr: Address to the Court on Innocence of Treason

( 1807 ) Commentary by Kirk H. Beetz, UC Davis, Emeritus
  • “The nature of his equipments clearly evinced that his object was purely peaceable and agricultural; … this fact alone ought to overthrow the testimony against him; … his designs were honorable, and would have been useful to the United States.” - Paragraph 1
  • “He demanded the interposition of the civil authority; … it was from military despotism, from the tyranny of a military escort, that he wished to be delivered, not from an investigation into his conduct, or from the operation of the laws of his country.” - Paragraph 3
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