[847] McCaleb, 80.
[848] Parton: Burr, 415-16.
[849] McCaleb, 81.
[850] Ib.; and see Parton: Jackson, i, 318.
[851] "There were not a thousand persons in the United States who did not think war with Spain inevitable, impending, begun!" (Parton: Burr, 407; McCaleb, 110.)
[852] See Jefferson to Jackson, Dec. 3,1806, as quoted in McCaleb, 82.
[853] See testimony of Colonel Charles Lynch, Annals, 10th Cong. 1st Sess. 656-58; and that of Thomas Bodley, Clerk of the Circuit Court, ib. 655-56. The statements of these men are also very important as showing Burr's plans and preparations at this time.
[854] McCaleb, 84-85.
[855] The Bastrop grant was accessible to the markets of New Orleans; it was surrounded by Indian tribes whose trade was valuable; its forests were wholly unexplored; it was on the Spanish border, and therefore an admirable point for foray or retreat. (See McCaleb, 83; and Cox in Southwestern Hist. Quarterly, xvii, 150.)
[856] Wilkinson to Adair, Sept. 28, 1806, as quoted in open letter of Adair to the Orleans Gazette, May 16, 1807, "Letters in Relation," MSS. Lib. Cong.