He smiled and said, if I had strongly
suspected any man wrongfully from his information, he would undeceive
me: that there were no persons he thought more strongly to be suspected
himself, than Higginson and Lowell. I considered this as saying they
were the men. Higginson is employed in an important business about our
navy.
February the 12th, 1801. Edward Livingston tells me, that Bayard applied
to-day or last night to General Samuel Smith, and represented to him
the expediency of his coming over to the States who vote for Burr, that
there was nothing in the way of appointment which he might not command,
and particularly mentioned the Secretaryship of the Navy. Smith asked
him if he was authorized to make the offer. He said he was authorized.
Smith told this to Livingston, and to W. C. Nicholas, who confirms it
to me. Bayard in like manner tempted Livingston, not by offering
any particular office, but by representing to him his (Livingston's)
intimacy and connection with Burr; that from him he had every thing to
expect, if he would come over to him. To Doctor Linn of New Jersey, they
have offered the government of New Jersey. See a paragraph in Martin's
Baltimore paper of February the 10th, signed, 'a looker on,' staling an
intimacy of views between Harper and Burr.
February the 14th. General Armstrong tells me, that Gouverneur Morris,
in conversation with him to-day on the scene which is passing, expressed
himself thus.
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