4809. LOUISIANA, Constitutional amendments.—[further continued].
I wrote you on the 12th instant, on the subject of Louisiana, and the
constitutional provision which might be necessary
for it. A letter received yesterday
shows that nothing must be said on that subject,
which may give a pretext for retracting;
but that we should do, sub silentio, what shall
be found necessary. Be so good as to consider
that part of my letter as confidential.—
To John C. Breckenridge.
Ford ed., viii, 244.
(Aug. 18 1803)
