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4865. LOUISIANA, Treaty ratified.—[further continued] .

For myself and my country,
I thank you for the aids you have given
in it; and I congratulate you on having lived
to give those aids in a transaction replete with blessings to unborn millions of men, and
which will mark the face of a portion on the
globe so extensive as that which now composes
the United States of America.—
To Dupont de Nemours. Washington ed. iv, 509.
(W. 1803)