Insurrection of Aaron Burr | The Severance of the Union | 3
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Burr's 'Conspiracy'
In 1806, Joseph Hamilton Davis traveled to St. Louis to interview General Wilkinson. He left the meeting convinced that Wilkinson was leading a sinister plot against the United States. The controversy started with a newspaper in Frankfurt, Kentucky called the Western world. In July, the paper ran a series of sensationalist stories alleging that a secessionist scheme was underway.
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