Note 861 — Chapter VI

The Western World, edited by the notorious John Wood, author of the History of the Administration of John Adams, which was suppressed by Burr. (See vol. ii, 380, of this work.) Wood was of the same type of irresponsible pamphleteer and newspaper hack as Callender and Cheetham. His so-called "history" was a dull, untruthful, scandalous diatribe; and it is to Burr's credit that he bought the plates and suppressed the book. Yet this action was one of the reasons given for the remorseless pursuit of him, after it had been determined to destroy him.