But to what a state will our law be reduced by party feelings in
those who administer it? Why do not Blannerhasset, Dayton, &c.
demand private and comfortable lodgings? In a country where an equal
application of law to every condition of man is fundamental, how could
it be denied to them? How can it ever be denied to the most degraded
malefactor? The enclosed letter of James Morrison, covering a copy of
one from Alston to Blannerhasset, came to hand yesterday. I enclose
them, because it is proper all these papers should be in one deposite,
and because you should know the case and all its bearings, that you may
understand whatever turns up in the cause. Whether the opinion of the
letter-writer is sound, may be doubted. For however these, and other
circumstances which have come to us, may induce us to believe that the
bouncing letter he published, and the insolent one he wrote to me, were
intended as blinds, yet they are not sufficient for legal conviction.
Blannerhasset and his wife could possibly tell us enough. I commiserate
the sufferings you have to go through in such a season, and salute you
with great esteem and respect.
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER LXI.--TO GEORGE HAY, September 4, 1807
TO GEORGE HAY.
Monticello, September 4, 1807.
Dear Sir,
Yours of the 1st came to hand yesterday. The event has been ------
that is to say, not only to clear Burr, but to prevent the evidence from
ever going before the world.
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