Note 126 — Chapter XI · SPOILS AND BROILS OF VICTORY 1801-1803

"All the world knew that not Cheetham, but DeWitt Clinton, thus dragged the Vice President from his chair, and that not Burr's vices but his influence made his crimes heinous; that behind DeWitt Clinton stood the Virginia dynasty, dangling Burr's office in the eyes of the Clinton family, and lavishing honours and money on the Livingstons. All this was as clear to Burr and his friends as though it was embodied in an Act of Congress."—Henry Adams, History of the United States, Vol. 1, pp. 331, 332.