Excerpt from A View of the Political Conduct of Aaron Burr, Esq.: Vice-President of the United States This may 'tend to Ihow the necefiity there is for infor-v mation, as well as its energy in a free (late. In a defpotic one, it may make a flave miferable by making him fenfible of his condition but in our country, it is the foul that ani mates, and which is alone competent to uphold, the body politic. It will give no offence to the Majefly of truth to (lay, that' the people, the great mafs, were, like fay/elf, firangers to the conduft of Mr. Burr. It is doubtlefs to this ignorance of character that he owes his elevation. The people can-v not, wittingly, be guilty of a fit lo eleje. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.