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8401. TERRITORY, Expansion of.—[continued].
However our present interests
may restrain us within our own limits,
it is impossible not to look forward to distant
times, when our rapid multiplication will expand
itself beyond those limits, and cover the
whole northern, if not the southern continent,
with a people speaking the same language,
governed in similar forms, and by similar laws
* * *.—
To James Monroe. Washington ed. iv, 420.
Ford ed., viii, 105.
(W.
Nov. 1801)
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