appointm
t. which he might not command, & particularly mentioned the Secretaryship of the navy. Smith asked him if he was authorised
to make the offer. he said he was authorised. Smith told this to Livingston & 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 L’s intimacy & connexion
with Burr, that from him he had every thing to expect if he would come over to him . . .
On April 15, 1806, in reference to conversations with Colonel Burr, Jefferson wrote:
. . . I did not commit these things to writing at the time but I do it now, because in a suit between him & Cheetham, he has
had a deposñ of m
r. Bayard taken, which seems to have no relation to the suit nor to any other object but to calumniate me. Bayard pretends
to have addressed to me, during the pendency of the Presidl election in Feb. 1801. through Gen
l. Sam
l. Smith, certain condñs on which my election might be obtained, & that Gen
l. Smith after conversing with me gave answers from me. this is absolutely false. no proposñ of any kind was ever made to me
on that occasion by Gen
l. Smith, nor any answer authorized by me. and this fact Gen
l. Smith affirms at this moment . . .
James Asheton Bayard, 1767-1815, statesman, was a leader of the Federalist party, and played an important part in the disputed presidential election
of 1800.
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1864 Catalogue, page 361, Duane, (William.) Trial of Rioters for riot, and assault on. 8
o.
Philadelphia, 1801. (Pol. Pam. v. 102.)
J. 19. DUANE,
William.
Minutes of Examination, taken in short notes--on the trial of the rioters, for a riot and assault on Wm. Duane, on the 15 May, 1799--trial 28 April, 1801. Without name of place or printer [
Philadelphia:
William Duane?
1801.]
E302.6 .D82 M6
8vo. 12 leaves, caption title, no title-page.
Clark,
William Duane, page 69.
Rebound in buckram by the Library of Congress. This copy has no marks of identification but was probably Jefferson’s copy.
The Library of Congress has two copies, of which one was in pamphlet volume 102 and the second copy was from the Duane collection,
and is therefore eliminated.
On May 15, 1799, Duane had been attacked and beaten on account of an article in the
Aurora
concerning the conduct of the troops who had been sent to suppress a riot in Northampton. The trial took place on April 28,
1801. Bernard McMahon, q.v., was one of the witnesses.
For William Duane and the
Aurora see no. 544.
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