Who Bought Louisiana?
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Excerpt from Who Bought Louisiana?: An Address on the Services of Thomas Jefferson in Connection With the Louisiana Purchase, Delivered at the Closing Exercises of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Mo;, April 30, 1913 "Peace is our passion; wrongs might drive us from it; but we prefer trying every other just principle before ice would recur to tear. (Thomas Jefferson.) Human history is crowded with dramatic moments. Suddenly, without foreknowledge or forewarning, the world becomes a stage, and men and women play on it their tragic or comic parts. The midnight hour of April 13, 1803, was such a moment. The scene was Paris. The great figures of the drama were Thomas Jefferson, the American, and Napoleon Bonaparte, the Corsican. Robert Livingston, the American minister, and Barbe-Marbois, the French secretary of the treasury, also appear as actors; and in the background we see dimly the forms of James Monroe and Talleyrand-Perigord, statesmen and diplomatists. The theme of the play is the conflict between autocracy and democracy. The title of the play might be "Who bought Louisiana?" Let us picture to ourselves first the character of the great American protagonist. Thomas Jefferson, at that time the most conspicuous figure in the western Republic, the central force of its politics, the dominating personality in its official life, was the son of a Virginian farmer. The tides of settlement, which flowed first up the valleys of the four great Virginian rivers, had spread to their affluents. In 1735 these tides had brought Peter Jefferson to a plantation on the Rivanna, one of the affluents of the James River. Here Peter patented land, and having wooed and won for himself a wife from the proud house of the Virginia Randolphs, he built a home in the wilderness and called it Shadwell in honor of his wife´s English birthplace. A stalwart man, he lived here an energetic and useful life. He was chosen colonel of his county and vestryman of his church; represented his people in the Virginian House of Burgesses; and died at last in 1753, when his eldest son Thomas was but 10 years old. His epitaph might have been written thus: "Even the red Indian trusted him." Thomas Jefferson was born and bred among the fine simplicities of that early Virginian country life. Heaven gave him neither poverty nor riches; the precious inheritances of his youth were the lesson of his father´s achievement and the example of his mother´s excellence. His vigorous and healthy body was strengthened and matured by the daily practice of wholesome outdoor sports. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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