who need to study this subject, I recommend Spears's "History of our
Navy," in four volumes. It is dedicated "to those who would seek Peace
and Pursue it."

[Note 5:] - Aaron Burr had been an officer in the American Revolution.
He was Vice-President from 1801 to 1805, in the first term of
Jefferson's administration. In July, 1804, in a duel, Burr killed
Alexander Hamilton, a celebrated leader of the Federal party. From this
duel may be dated the indignation which followed him through the next
years of his life. In 1805, after his Vice-Presidency, he made a voyage
down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, to study the new acquisition of
Louisiana. That name was then given to all the country west of the
Mississippi as far as the Rocky Mountains. The next year he organized a
military expedition, probably with the plan, vaguely conceived, of
taking Texas from Spain. He was, however, betrayed and arrested by
General Wilkinson,--then in command of the United States army,--with
whom Burr had had intimate relations. He was tried for treason at
Richmond but acquitted.

[Note 6:] - Colonel Morgan is a fictitious character, like all the
others in this book, except Aaron Burr.

[Note 7:] - The "Lay of the Last Minstrel" is one of the best poems of
Walter Scott. It was first published in 1805.

The whole passage referred to in the text is this:--

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!