dence, and that
no others are. Shall we move to commit Luther Martin, as _particeps
criminis_ with Burr? Graybell will fix upon him misprision of treason at
least. And at any rate, his evidence will put down this unprincipled and
impudent federal bull-dog, and add another proof that the most clamorous
defenders of Burr are all his accomplices. It will explain why Luther
Martin flew so hastily to the aid of 'his honorable friend,' abandoning
his clients and their property during a session of a principal court
in Maryland, now filled, as I am told, with the clamors and ruin of his
clients. I believe we shall send on Latrobe as a witness. He will prove
that Aaron Burr endeavored to get him to engage several thousand men,
chiefly Irish emigrants, whom he had been in the habit of employing in
the works he directs, under pretence of a canal opposite Louisville,
or of the Washita, in which, had he succeeded, he could with that force
alone have carried every thing before him, and would not have been where
he now is. He knows, too, of certain meetings of Burr, Bollman, Yrujo,
and one other whom we have never named yet, but have him not the less in
our view.

I salute you with friendship and respect.

Th: Jefferson.

P. S. Will you send us half a dozen blank subpoenas?

Since writing the within I have had a conversation with Latrobe. He says
it was five hundred men he was desired to engage. The pretexts were to
work on the Ohio canal, and be paid in Washita lands. Your witnesses
will some of them prove that Burr had no interest in the Ohio canal, and
that consequently this was a mere pretext to cover the real object from
the men themselves, and all others. Latrobe will set out in the stage of
to-morrow evening, and be with you Monday evening. T. J.

LETTER LIII.--TO GOVERNOR SULLIVAN, June 19, 1807

TO GOVERNOR SULLIVAN.

Washington, June 19, 1807.

Dear Sir,

In acknowledging the receipt of your favor of the 3rd instant, I avail
myself of the occasion it offers of tendering to yourself, to Mr.
Lincoln, and to your State, my sincere congratulations on the late happy
event of the election of a republican executive to preside over its
councils. The harmony it has introduced between the legislative and
executive branches, between the people and both of them, and between
all and the General Government, are so many steps towards securing that
union of action and effort in all its parts, without which no nation can