This I have thought proper to write you, and I hope will, in its object and motives, find with you an excuse for doing so.
I am, with respect, your obedient servant,
WILLIAM DUANE.
Footnotes:
1. Mr. Madison was then a member of Congress.
2. President of the United States.
3. Appointed by Mr. Jefferson supervisor of internal revenue for the state of New-Jersey.
4. Edward Livingston and Theodorus Bailey; the former appointed United States district attorney for the district of New-York; the latter subsequently appointed postmaster of the city of New-York, and removed from the country, a distance of nearly one hundred miles, to take charge of the office. Cheetham, editor of the American Citizen, some time after Mr. Livingston's appointment, in referring to him, says—"Should Mr. Burr's confidential friend ever become dangerous, we will show what he has been and what he is."
5. Appointed United States marshal for the Potomac district of Maryland.
6. This letter is dated seven days after Mr. Burr's casting vote in the Senate.