336 The Winning of the West 



and betraying the treasonable movement into which 

 he had entered; and again he asked funds on the 

 ground that all he wished to do was to establish a 

 separate government in the West, and thus destroy 

 the power of the United States to molest Spain. 

 However, his efforts came to naught, and he was 

 obliged to try what he could do unaided in the 

 West. 



In August, 1806, he again crossed the Allegha- 

 nies. His first stop of importance was at Blenner- 

 hassett's. Blennerhassett was the one person of any 

 importance who took his schemes so seriously as to 

 be willing to stake his fortune on their success. Burr 

 took with him to Blennerhassett's his daughter, The- 

 odosia, a charming woman, the wife of a South 

 Carolinian, Allston. The attractions of the daugh- 

 ter, and Burr's own address and magnetism, com- 

 pletely overcame both Blennerhassett and his wife. 

 They gave the adventurer all the money they could 

 raise, with the understanding that they would re- 

 ceive it back a hundred-fold as the result of a land 

 speculation which was to go hand in hand with the 

 expected revolution. Then Blennerhassett began, 

 in a very noisy and ineffective way, to make what 

 preparations were possible in the way of rousing the 

 Ohio settlers, and of gathering a body of armed men 

 to serve under Burr when the time rame. It was 

 all done in a way that savored of farce rather than 

 of treason. 



There was much less comedy, however, in what 

 went on in Kentucky and Tennessee, where Burr 



