Missouri, Vol. 2
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Excerpt from Missouri, Vol. 2: The Center State, 1821-1915 "The territory acquired, as it includes all the waters of the Missouri and Mississippi, has more than doubled the area of the United States, and the new part is not inferior to the old in soil, climate, productions and important communications." - Jefferson to General Gates, July nth, 1803. "On this important acquisition, so favorable to the immediate interests of our Western citizens, so auspicious to the peace and security of the nation in general, which adds to our country territories so extensive and fertile, and to our citizens new brethren to partake of the blessings of freedom and self-government, I offer to Congress and our country my sincere congratulations." - Jefferson to Congress, January 16th, 1804, "Whilst the property and sovereignty of the Mississippi and its waters secure an independent outlet for the produce of the Western States, and an uncontrolled navigation through their whole course, free from collision with other Powers, and the dangers to our peace from that source, the fertility of the country, its climate and extent, promise, in due season, important aids to our Treasury, an ample provision for our posterity, and a wide spread for the blessings of freedom and equal laws." - Jefferson to Congress, October 17th, 1803. "I know that the acquisition of Louisiana has been disapproved by some, from a candid apprehension that the enlargement of our territory would endanger our Union. But can you limit the extent to which the federative principle may operate effectively? The larger our association, the less will it be shaken by local passions; and in any view, is it not better that the opposite bank of the Mississippi should be settled by our own brethren and children than by strangers of another family? With which shall we he most likely to live in harmony and friendly intercourse?" - Jefferson´s Second Inaugural Address, 1805. "The treaty which has so happily sealed the friendship of our two countries has been received here with genera! acclamation. Some inflexible federalists have still ventured to brave the public opinion. It will fix their character with the world and with posterity, who. not descending to the other points of difference between us. will judge them by this fact, so palpable as to speak for itself in all times and places. For myself and my country, I thank you for the aids you have given in it: and I congratulate you on having lived to give those aids in a transaction replete with blessings to unborn millions of men. and which will mark the face of a portion on the globe so extensive as that which now composes the United States of America." - Jefferson to M. Dupont De Nemours, French Minister, November 1st, 1803. "I confess I look to this duplication of area for the extending a government so free and economical as ours, as a great achievement to the mass of happiness which is to ensue. Whether we remain in one confederacy, or form into Atlantic and Mississippi confederacies. I believe not very important to the happiness of either part. Those of the western confederacy will be as much our children and descendants as those of the eastern, and I feel myself as much identified with that country, in future time, as with this; and did I now foresee a separation at some future day, yet I should feel the duty and the desire to promote the western interests as zealously as the eastern, doing all the good for both portions of our future family which should fall within my power." - Jefferson to Dr. Priestley, January 29th, 1804. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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