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3037. FLORIDA, France and.—

That
Bonaparte would give us the Floridas to withhold
intercourse with the residue of the
[Spanish] colonies cannot be doubted. But
that is no price; because they are ours in the
first moment of the first war; and until a war
they are of no particular necessity to us.—
To President Madison. Washington ed. v, 444.
(M. April. 1809)