This defeat of the impeachers occurred the day before Randolph attacked Granger and the Yazoo claims in Congress. During the week that preceded Chase’s trial, Randolph’s bad management or ill-luck seemed accumulating disasters on his head. He roused needless hatred against himself in Congress; his alliance with Duane was unsuccessful; he exhausted his strength in fighting the Yazoo Bill, and was in no condition of mind or body to meet the counsel of Judge Chase. Neither the Administration nor his Virginia friends failed to support Randolph. They made efforts to conciliate Burr, whose opposition to the impeachment was most feared. Jefferson appointed J. B. Prevost of New York, Burr’s stepson, a judge of the Superior Court at New Orleans; James Brown, who married Mrs. Burr’s sister, was made secretary to the Louisiana Territory and sent to govern St. Louis, solely on Burr’s recommendation; James Wilkinson, one of Burr’s most intimate friends and general-in-chief of the army, was made governor of the Louisiana Territory,--an appointment directly opposed to Jefferson’s theories about the union of civil and military authority.[137] Besides these conciliatory compliments the President repeatedly invited Burr to dinner, and treated him with more attention than ever before;[138] both Madison and Gallatin kept up friendly relations with him; while Senator Giles of Virginia drew an Address to Governor Bloomfield of New Jersey, and caused it to be signed by all the senators who could be induced to let their names be used, requesting that a _nolle prosequi_ should be entered on the indictment against Burr found by the grand jury of Bergen county.