“The purchase of Louisiana in its full
extent, tho’ not contemplated, is received with warm,
and, in a manner, universal approbation…It will be of
great importance…to take the regulation and settlement
of that Territory out of other hands into those of the U.S.…By
securing, also, the exclusive jurisdiction of the Mississippi
to the mouth, a source of much perplexity and collision is effectually
cut off.”
— Letter to James Monroe,
July 30, 1803 (Madison, 1865, II, pages 183-184)
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