Aaron Burr: Address to the Court on Innocence of Treason

Glossary

• adduce present as an example
• affidavits sworn statements
• civil authority the civilian government, as opposed to the military authorities
• commitment prison sentence
• debarred prohibited
• Eaton William Eaton, a general whom Burr tried unsuccessfully to enlist in his plot and who testified for the government and against Burr at his trial
• evinced displayed or demonstrated
• forfeited his recognizance posted bail by paying a nonrefundable fee
• in arms armed and prepared for battle
• magistrate judge
• meet an investigation appear before the legal authorities to answer any questions
• put at defiance showed the untruth of
• repel some observations of a personal nature respond to personal attacks
• to remedy any omission of his counsel to make up for anything his legal representatives had failed to mention
• Wilkinson James Wilkinson, a general and co-conspirator of Burr’s, who later betrayed his plot