Delaware Weekly Advertiser And Farmer's Journal

From the Staunton Spectator.
JACKSON AND BURR.

Every body has heard of Col. Aaron Burr, that daring conspirator who once aimed at the subversion of our republic. Every one knows that he was guilty of the charges alleged against him by his country. But everybody does not know that Gen. Jackson, whom his partisans are now endeavoring to seat in the presidential chair, was, while the conspiracy was carrying on, the friend and associate of Burr. That while all good men and true patriots were in a state of alarm for the safety of the government—while every effort was making to apprehend the traitor and bring him to merited justice, he was safely reposing under the shades of the Hermitage, enjoying the friendship and hospitality of our now would be President. The following extract from the Tennessee Gazette, taken therefrom into the Richmond Enquirer, of the 20th January, 1807, a paper published then, as now, by Thomas Ritchie, will serve to demonstrate as well the relation in which Col. Burr stood to Gen. Jackson, as the relation in which he stood to the country:

"Col. Burr arrived on Sunday evening last, at Gen. Jackson's, about 9 miles from this town; and has been in this place several times this week. He appears to be preparing for some movement, we know not where. Should he attempt any hostile movements, we will make it known."

Thus it seems that while Col. Burr "appears to be preparing for some movement," and while the people of Tennessee were every day expecting him to attempt some "hostile movement," he makes Gen. Jackson's house his stopping place, and thence visits Nashville.—Was Jackson a partner in Burr's Conspiracy? We do not say that. But that he was a friend to the traitor, let his conduct in Richmond show, where during Burr's trial, everybody knows the effort Jackson made to shield him from conviction, and throw all the guilt from the shoulders of Burr on those of Gen. Wilkinson.

These things are suspicious at least. Let the people look to it.