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Mississippi Territory and General wilkin-
son to move down with the troops at hand
TO New Orleans. to receive the possessions
from NJ. Lausse. If he is heartily disposed
to carry out the order of the First Consul
into execution, he can probably command
volunteer force at New Orleans. and will
have the aid of ours also If he desires it, to
take possession and deliver il 10 US. If he
is not so disposed, we shall take these pos
sessions and it will rest with the govern
ment OF France. by adopting the act as
their own, and obtaining the confirmation
of Spain. TO supply the nonexecution of
their stipulation to deliver and TO entitle
themselves TO the complete execution of
our part of the agreement To Robert r.
Livingston. w. 511. Ford. Ed. VIII. 279.
(Noy. 1907
JEFFERSON'S INTENTIONS.
THE fact was that the title of France to
the territory was in some doubt, and rested
upon an agreement made with Spain. not
10 ALLEVIATE it; for which reason Spain sub
sequently protested to our government.
The truth of history is that it was the in
tention of jefferson, as President of the
United States, to hold the territory by
force, if necessary, against all the world.
I'm the history of the Louisiana pur-
chase Jefferson subjected himself to all
charges now made against President Nc
Kinley, of buying human beings mill
tarism' and imperialism. If Mckinley can
be convicted of Imperialism then Thomas
Jefferson must answer to a charge now al
most one hundred years old, for the same
offense. Other declarations of Mr.. Jeffer
son might be cited to the same purport, all
showing the intense zeal manifested by him
in securing possession of the Territory of
the Louisiana purchase The chief reason
given for this was the immense value of
this possession, which included the lower
Mississippi and New Orleans, TO the future
rl1a nd dove lnfar nrlf nf no
of the United States. Jefferson and his
party have ever been in front in all things
necessary to trade extension and CONNER
cial expansion. Commercial expansion was
the underlying and powerful principle in
volved in tariff reform. 1t was the unan-
swerable logic of tariff reform.
The Democratic party diagnosed the
case correctly, but in prescribing lower
tariff schedule, they gave feeble and slow
remedy. The Republican party diagnosed
the case wrong, but they had given the
commercial isolation, which is territorial
expansion. Trade expansion has never
failed to follow fleet upon the footsteps of
territorial expansion. The growth of our
exports, since the Spanish-American war.
to figures unheard of before in our history,
leave no room to believe that the last
QUESTION will prove any exception to the
rule.
I'm the accomplishment of his high pur-
poses, the author of the Declaration of In
dependence would not have hesitated TO
inhabitants of the territory. 1 am con-
scious that in all this Mr. Jefferson SUBJ
Jected himself to the ever-ready charge
and answer to all propositions for extend
ing our commerce, that he was putting the
dollar before the man.
What was true then as TO the COM
mercial Importance of the Louisiana pur-
chase to the people of the original thir-
teen States, applies with equal force to
the acquisition of the Philippine archi-
pelago to the forty-five States now.
LAS New Orleans and the Louisiana pur-
chase then stood at the door of our future
interior commerce, now stand Manila
and the Philippine islands at the door of
our immense possibilities in oriental trade.
The disturbance in China now, instead of
closing that door. Will prove an important
step in opening up that country to Ameri-
can trade. 1t means the passing of old
China and the introduction of western
civilization and western wants. 1t means a
market for the products of our farms and
factories, among 400, 900, 900 of people, whose
primitive condition in development is
illustrated by the fact that they now have
but S59 miles of railway in the whole en-
pire of China. What a field for American
capital abroad-what a market for Ameri-
can labor at home in supplying these
products to oriental peoples. 1t would seem
that there was much similarity In the at
tending reasons for the acquisition of the
Louisiana purchase and that of securing
the Philippine islands. The parallel is even
more marked when we consider the ques-
tions arising out of the proposed govern =
ment of these islands, and the proposed
y
of the Louisiana purchase.
EXPLODED ARGUMENTS.
There is no new argument or objection
now offered by the Democratic platform
or party that was not fully exhausted by
the old Federalist leaders in their resist
ance against the Louisiana purchase. And
especially that the inhabitants could not
be governed under the Constitution unless
given self-government, that To govern them
without self-government, was at war with
the principle that all governments derive
their just powers from the consent of the
governed
These propositions and others of a kim
bred nature were affirmed by the Federal
lists as a party, and used with all their
power to defeat not only the acquisition
of Louisiana, but for the defeat of MIR.
jefferson and his party, as may be OBJ
served from the following: The opposi-
ton caught 1t as a plank in a shipwreck
hoping IL would tack the Western people
to them. They raised the cry of war; We're
intriguing in all quarters TO exasperate
the Western inhabitants to arm and go
down on their own authority. and possess
themselves OF New Orleans, and in the
meantime were daily reiterating, i'm new
shapes, infiammatory resolutions for the
ingston. w, 400. Ford. Ed. VIII, 2O9.
February, 1907
1.-The recital above we'll describes the
recent doings of the Anti-imperialists of
this day in the United States and among
the inhabitants of the Philippine islands.
Again. he says: Some infiexible FEEDER
alists have still ventured to brave the pub
lie opinion. 1t will fix their character
with the world and posterity, who not de-
scending to the other points of difference
between us, will judge them by this fact
so palpable, as to speak for itself i'm ali
times and places.-To Dupont De Ar
nouns Nv. sos CIV. 1902
1.-THE prophecy contained in the forego-
ing, which has been vindicated hy history
and written upon the tomb of the Federal
party, is commended TO those who place
themselves athwart the pathway of prog
ress and the glory of their country now
How did Mr.. Jefferson meet these OBJ
jections and those forebodings of the Fed
eralists, to the difficulties which would
arise after the territory was acquired
What kind of government did he propose
for the thousands of inhabitants included
in the Louisiana purchase? We are not
left in doubt upon these inquiries for he
says: Il believe it best to appoint a Gov
powers; only providing that the Judges
shall form the laws, and the Governor
have a negative only, subject further 10
the negative of the national legislature
(Congress) The existing laws of the coun-
try being now in force, the new iegisla-
ture will of course introduce the trial by
jury in criminal cases first: the habeas
corpus, the freedom of the press, freedom
of religion, etc, as soon as can be, and i'm
general draw their laws and organizations
TO the mold of by degrees as they
discomfort In proportion as we find the
people there riner for raceix-fng fhas.a fret