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1010. BURR'S (A.) TRIAL, Conviction doubtful.—

That there should be anxiety and
doubt in the public mind, in the present defective
state of the proof, is not wonderful; and
this has been sedulously encouraged by the
tricks of the judges to force trials before it is
possible to collect the evidence, dispersed
through a line of two thousand miles from
Maine to Orleans.—
To William B. Giles. Washington ed. v, 65. Ford ed., ix, 42.
(M. April. 1807)