Will any man believe that Burr who is a soldier bold, ardent, restless and aspiring, the great actor whose brain conceived and whose hand brought the plot into operation, should sink down into an accessory and Blennerhassett be elevated into a principal!
Beveridge critiques the legal classification of Burr and Blennerhassett in a dramatic rhetorical flourish.
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