[1220] Alston's description in ib. 360.

[1221] Burr Trials, ii, 42.

[1222] Blennerhassett Papers: Safford, 360.

[1223] The temperature was very high throughout the trial. One night Blennerhassett was overcome by it. (Ib. 319.)

[1224] Burr Trials, ii, 57.

[1225] Ib. 57-59.

[1226] Burr Trials, ii, 61-65.

[1227] Ib. 92.

[1228] See Burr Trials, ii, 96-98.

For this famous passage of Wirt's speech, see Appendix E.