But Mr.Jefferson will temporize, and Burr will make his dash for a throne.

Well! he is neither Caesar nor Buonaparte; he is only Aaron Burr.

He is the adventurer, not the Emperor.

The danger is that in all the motley he is enlisting there may be a Buonaparte.

Then farewell to this poor schemer and any delusions he may yet nourish as to a peaceful, federated West! War and brazen clamour and the yelling eagles of a conqueror!" He spoke with conviction, but now, as though to lighten his own mood, he laughed.