（Philadelphia, ）

    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 retirement¹ from Washington's Cabinet in  and a few years before the political ingenuities² of Burr —— who has been characterized, without much exaggeration, as the inventor of American politics —— began to be conspicuously³ formidable to the Federalists. These activities on the part of Burr resulted, as the reader will remember, in the Burr-Jefferson tie for the Presidency⁴ in , and finally in the Burr-Hamilton duel⁵ at Weehawken in .