Note 1324 — Chapter IX
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No wonder the Government abandoned the case. Nearly all the depositions procured by Hay under Jefferson's orders demonstrated that Burr had not the faintest intention of separating the Western States from the Union, or even of attacking Mexico unless war broke out between Spain and the United States. See particularly deposition of Benjamin Stoddert of Maryland, October 9, 1807 (Quarterly Pub. Hist. and Phil. Soc. Ohio, ix, nos. 1 and 2, 7-9); of General Edward Tupper of Ohio, September 7, 1807 (ib. 13-27); and of Paul H. M. Prevost of New Jersey, September 28, 1807 (ib. 28-30).