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4832. LOUISIANA, Government for.—[further continued] .

Although it is acknowledged
that our new fellow citizens are as yet
as incapable of self-government as children,
yet some [in Congress] cannot bring themselves
to suspend its principles for a single
moment. The temporary or territorial government
of that country, therefore, will encounter
great difficulty [in Congress].—
To De Witt Clinton. Ford ed., viii, 283.
(W. Dec. 1803)