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7781. SELF-GOVERNMENT, Louisiana and.—

Although it is acknowledged that our
new fellow citizens [in Louisiana] 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.—
To De Witt Clinton. Ford ed., viii, 283.
(W. Dec. 1803)


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