A TALE OF THE TIMES

OF

AARON BURR,

AND

ALEXANDER HAMILTON.

BY

HON. JERE. CLEMENS,

AUTHOR OF "BERNARD LILE" AND "MUSTANG GRAY.”

PHILADELPHIA:

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

COLONEL JOHN READ,

HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA.

MY DEAR SIR:

IN dedicating this volume to you, I have not been influenced by the high character and stern integrity of conduct which have marked a long and useful life. Nor even by the consideration that you are the father of that dear wife who has been to me a solace and a support in every trial and every sorrow which have come upon me. It is a tribute rather to domestic virtues-to the kind and genial nature which makes your fireside the abode of happiness, and consecrates the domestic circle to home enjoyments.

In you, a green and healthy old age has followed a youth of industry and virtue; while your heart, instead of hardening by contact with the world, has grown more gentle with advancing years, and CHARITY, the great virtue of the Apostle, abideth evermore within it. May your days be long in the land, and may my last years of life resemble yours.