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Lewis Rand

CHAPTER XV
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The one who does not is a dastard in addition--_voila tout!_ "Burr quits the East, and all men know that the West, like Israel of old, is weary of an Idea and would like to have a King.

If the world revolves this way much longer, the Man of the People will not be asked to write the next Declaration of Independence, and the country west of the Ohio will be celebrating not the Fourth of July but an eighteenth Prairial.

Aaron Burr and his confederates intend an Empire.

'Tis said there are five hundred men in his confidence here in the East, and that the chief of these wait but for a signal from him or from Wilkinson--whereupon they'll follow him and he'll make them dukes and princes.
"Like Macbeth, he has done his murder and is on his way to be crowned at Scone.

He has not a wife, but he has a daughter ambitious as himself.
She has a son.


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