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tlhe 'prevailing impulses and opinions Burr took
advantage, and countenanced-so far as regarded
the Mexican project-by General Wilkinson, commander
of the United States troops in Louisiana,
General Andrew Jackson, and other persons of note
and influence, he collected armed adherents, and
prepared to descend the Mississippi to New Orleans,
to pass the Sabine, and march against the capital
of Mexico.
A plot in which so many persons were necessarily
embarked could not be concealed from the Executive
of the Republic. In the month of November,
1806, President Jefferson apprised the citizens of
the Union, that a criminal expedition was organised,
for which arms and ships had been collected, and
officers commissioned. In the summer and autumn
of 1806, Colonel Burr, who was then on a tour
through the Western States, was brought, as the
prime mover in these illegal preparations, before two
different grand juries in Kentucky, and, after investigation,
descharged. It is true that the popular
inclination in Kentucky was favourable to an attack
upon Mexico, but, so far as any testimony was adduced,
it went to prove merely the intention of
Burr to settle the Washita lands. Nothing daunted,
he continued his arrangements until, on the 3d of
March, 1807, he was arrested by order of the United
States Government, on a charge of treason, on the
Tombigbee River, in the Mississippi territory, and
removed for trial to Richmond, in Virginia, where
he arrived on the 25th of the same month. Two
bills of indictment were there preferred against him
in the Circuit Court of the United States, Chief
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Kennedy, William. Texas: the rise, progress, and prospects of the Republic of Texas, Vol.1, book, January 1, 1841; London. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2389/m1/294/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.