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4841. LOUISIANA, Mission to France respecting.—[continued].

The future destinies of
our country hang on the event of this negotiation,
and I am sure they could not be
placed in more able or more zealous hands.
On our parts we shall be satisfied that what
you do not effect, cannot be effected.—
To Robert R. Livingston. Washington ed. iv, 461. Ford ed., viii, 210.
(W. Feb. 1803)