CHAPTER  XYI.

THE  TIE  INTRIGUES.

The Works of Washington, Jeffeeson, Adams and Hamilton—Letter from Burb
TO Wilkinson — Letter from Jefferson to Burr — Letter from Burr to Hon. S,
Smith appointing him his Proxy—Letter from Hamilton to Secretary AVoloott

DENOUNCING BuRR—ThE FEDERALISTS BENT ON ELECTING BuRR PRESIDENT—LETTER

FROM Otis to Hamilton asking Advice respecting the Project — Second Letter
from Hamilton to Wolcott against Burr — Letter from Jeffeeson to Madison
denouncing the Federal Intrigues—Honest Letter from Gouverneur Morris—
Letter from Hamilton to Sedgivick, denouncing Burr — Letters from Hamilton
"O Moeeis and Bayard against Burr — Eeplies of Morris and Bayard to Ham-
-Xton — Letter feomj^eneral Green to Hamilton — Letter of Governor Eut¬
ledge to Hamilton — Sedgwick's Reply to Hamilton — Long Letter op Hamilton
to Bayard — Hamilton to Morris again — The Election in the House—Scene
BETWEEN Jeffeeson and Adams — Proof of Burr's Political Integrity — Ihb
Inauguration.

What occurred among the politicians from the middle
of December, when the tie was first known, to the middle
of February, when the House voted upon it, shall be, as far
as possible, shoAvn, not told. The publications of the last few
years enable us to read the history of that time in the very
words of its leading personages.

Among the A'olumes which " no gentleman's library is com¬
plete without," and which, in most gentlemen's libraries, slum¬
ber on the shelves with uncut leaves, are the forty ponderous
octavoes, containing the works of George Washington, Thomas
Jefferson, John Adams, and Alexander Hamilton. That these
volumes should be so utterly neglected as they are is not
creditable to the national inteUigence. In the Mercantile
Library of the city of New York, which counts its subscribers
by thousands, the condition in which these books Avere found
by me, two or three years ago, was as follows: the first vol¬
ume of each set showed marks of having been taken out and
looked through, two or three times. The second volume had
evidently been handled by some one adventurous person, and