[127] Henry Adams, History of the United States, Vol. 1, p. 332.
[128] Ibid., 332.
Writing to Henry Post of the duel, Clinton (using the name, "Clinton," instead of the pronoun "I") said: "The affair of the duel ought not to be brought up. It was a silly affair. Clinton ought to have declined the challenge of the bully, and have challenged the principal, who was Burr. There were five shots, the antagonist wounded twice, and fell. C. behaved with cool courage, and after the affair was over challenged Burr on the field."—Harper's Magazine, Vol. 50, p. 565. "How Clinton should have challenged Burr on the field," writes John Bigelow, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine for May, 1875, "without its resulting in a meeting is not quite intelligible to us now. Though not much given to the redress of personal grievances in that way, Burr was the last man to leave a hostile message from an adversary like Clinton, then a Senator of the United States, unanswered."
[129] "Thompson was brought," says William Cullen Bryant in Reminiscences of the Evening Post, "to his sister's house in town; he was laid at the door; the bell was rung; the family came out and found him bleeding and near his death. He refused to name his antagonist, or give any account of the affair, declaring that everything which had been done was honourably done, and desired that no attempt should be made to seek out or molest his adversary."
[130] "DeWitt Clinton was annoyed at his uncle's conduct, and tried to prevent the withdrawal by again calling Jefferson to his aid and alarming him with fear of Burr. But the President declined to interfere. No real confidence ever existed between Jefferson and the Clintons."—Henry Adams, History of the United States, Vol. 2, pp. 173, 174.
[131] Thurlow Weed Barnes, Life of Thurlow Weed, Vol. 2, p. 35.
[132] H.C. Lodge, Life of Alexander Hamilton, pp. 276-7.
[133] H.C. Lodge, Life of Alexander Hamilton, pp. 240-1.
[134] Hamilton's Works (Lodge), Vol. 8, p. 570.
[135] January 29, 1804; Lodge's Cabot, p. 337.