Note 864 — Chapter VI
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(Clay to Pindell, Oct. 15, 1828, Works of Henry Clay: Colton, iv, 206; also Private Correspondence of Henry Clay: Colton, 206-08.)
So strong was his devotion to Hamilton, that "after he had attained full age," Daveiss adopted the name of his hero as part of his own, thereafter signing himself Joseph Hamilton Daveiss and requiring everybody so to address him. "Chiefly moved ... by his admiration of Colonel Hamilton and his hatred of Colonel Burr," testifies Henry Clay, Daveiss took the first step in the series of prosecutions that ended in the trial of Burr for treason. (Ib.)