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991. BURR'S (A.) TREASON, Designs of.—[further continued].

His first enterprise was
to have been to seize New Orleans, which he


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supposed would powerfully bridle the upper
country, and place him at the door of Mexico.—
To Marquis de Lafayette. Washington ed. v, 131. Ford ed., x, 144.
(W. July. 1807)