On the Way

Note. —— The following imaginary dialogue between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, which is not based upon any specific incident in American history, may be supposed to have occurred a few months previous to Hamilton's retirement from Washington's Cabinet in and a few years before the political ingenuities of Burr —— who has been characterized, without much exaggeration, as the inventor of American politics —— began to be conspicuously formidable to the Federalists. These activities on the part of Burr resulted, as the reader will remember, in the Burr-Jefferson tie for the Presidency in , and finally in the Burr-Hamilton duel at Weehawken in .