[136] Ibid., p. 447.
[137] New England Federalism, p. 148.
[138] Hamilton's History, Vol. 7, p. 781; New England Federalism, p. 354.
[139] Henry Adams, History of the United States, Vol. 2, p. 180. "Pickering and Griswold could win their game only by bartering their souls; they must invoke the Mephistopheles of politics, Aaron Burr. To this they had made up their minds from the beginning. Burr's four years of office were drawing to a close. He had not a chance of regaining a commanding place among Republicans, for he was bankrupt in private and public character."—Ibid., p. 171.
[140] Hamilton's Works (Lodge), Vol. 7, p. 325. "The struggle for control between Hamilton and the conspirators lasted to the eve of the election,—secret, stifled, mysterious; the intrigue of men afraid to avow their aims, and seeming rather driven by their own passions than guided by lofty and unselfish motives."—Henry Adams, History of the United States, Vol. 2, p. 184.
[141] Hamilton's Works (Lodge), Vol. 8, p. 608.
[142] Morgan Lewis, 30,829; Aaron Burr, 22,139.—Civil List, State of New York (1887), p. 166.
[143] "That all Hamilton's doings were known to Burr could hardly be doubted. He was not a vindictive man, but this was the second time Hamilton had stood in his way and vilified his character. Burr could have no reason to suppose that Hamilton was deeply loved; for he knew that four-fifths of the Federal party had adopted his own leadership when pitted against Hamilton's in the late election, and he knew, too, that Pickering, Griswold, and other leading Federalists had separated from Hamilton in the hope of making Burr himself the chief of a Northern confederacy. Burr never cared for the past,—the present and future were his only thoughts; but his future in politics depended on his breaking somewhere through the line of his personal enemies; and Hamilton stood first in his path, for Hamilton would certainly renew at every critical moment the tactics which had twice cost Burr his prize."—Henry Adams, History of the United States, Vol. 2, pp. 185, 186.
[144] Hamilton's Works (Lodge), Vol. 8, p. 617.
[145] Hamilton's Works (Lodge), Vol. 8, p. 618.