4817. LOUISIANA, Federalist opposition.—
The opposition caught it as a plank in
a shipwreck, hoping it would tack the western
people to them. They raised the cry of war,
were 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, in new shapes, inflammatory
resolutions for the adoption of the
House [of Representatives].—
To Robert R. Livingston. Washington ed. iv, 460.
Ford ed., viii, 209.
(W.
Feb. 1803)
