If Burr had planned to free Mexico and had succeeded, "he would have merited the applause of the friends of liberty and of posterity; ... but his friends may now pray that he may not meet the fate that Washington himself would have met, if the revolution had not been established.
Beveridge reflects on the potential legacy of Aaron Burr had he succeeded in his plans, highlighting the complexities of historical judgment.
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