[886] For instance, at Nashville, Burr was burnt in effigy in the public square. (Parton: Jackson, i, 322.) At Cincinnati an amusing panic occurred: three merchant scows loaded with dry goods were believed to be a part of Burr's flotilla of war vessels about to attack the town. The militia was called out, citizens organized for defense, the adjacent country was appealed to for aid. (See McCaleb, 248-49.)
[887] Wilkinson to Jefferson, Nov. 12, 1806, Wilkinson: Memoirs, ii, Appendix C.
[888] Iturrigaray to Cevallos, March 12, 1807, as quoted in McCaleb, 169; and see Shepherd in Am. Hist. Rev. ix, 533 et seq.
The thrifty General furnished Burling with a passport through the posts he must pass. ("Letters in Relation," as quoted in McCaleb, 166.)
Credentials to the Spanish official were also given Burling by one of Wilkinson's friends, Stephen Minor of Natchez, the man who had first set on foot the rumor of Burr's secession intentions. He was also in the pay of Spain. (Ib. 166-67.)
The Spaniards aided Burling on his journey in every way possible. (Herrera to Cordero, Dec. 1, 1806, as quoted in ib. 167-68.)
[889] Iturrigaray to Cevallos, March 12, 1807, as quoted in McCaleb, 168-69.
[890] Ib. 171.
[891] Wilkinson to Jefferson, March 12, 1807, "Letters in Relation," MSS. Lib. Cong.
[892] Wilkinson to Cushing, Nov. 7, 1806, Wilkinson: Memoirs, ii, Appendix xcix.