Note 139 — Chapter XII · DEFEAT OF BURR AND DEATH OF HAMILTON 1804

Henry Adams, History of the United States, Vol. 2, p. 180. "Pickering and Griswold could win their game only by bartering their souls; they must invoke the Mephistopheles of politics, Aaron Burr. To this they had made up their minds from the beginning. Burr's four years of office were drawing to a close. He had not a chance of regaining a commanding place among Republicans, for he was bankrupt in private and public character."—Ibid., p. 171.