...millions of dollars, to be applied and accounted for by the president of the United States, intended as a part of the price, was considered as conveying the...sanction of Congress to the acquisition proposed." What duplicity & hypocrisy is this man guilty of I He knew, very well knew, that he himself, though...

...President Jefferson submitted the treaty to the Senate for consideration and in his message said : "The enlightened Government of France saw, with just...discernment, the importance to both nations of such liberal arrangement as might best and permanently promote the peace, interests and friendship of both; and...

...deposit at the port of New Orleans" with the actions of "the enlightened Government of France," which "saw with just discernment the importance to both...promote the peace, friendship, and interests of both." Such was the gloss Jefferson put on the acquisition of Louisiana as he urged the Senate to give its...

...of two millions of dollars, to be applied and accounted for by the president of the United States, intended as part of the price, was considered as conveying...Louisiana, which had been restored to them, have on certain conditions been transferred to the United States by instruments bearing date the 30th of April last....

...of two millions of dollars, to be applied and accounted for by the President of the United States, intended as part of the price, was considered as conveying...arrangements as might best and permanently promote the peace, interests, and friendship of both, and the property and sovereignty of all Louisiana, which had been...

...appropriation of $3,000,000 made January 10, 1803, intended as a part of the price, and stated that this was considered as conveying the sanction of Congress to the acquisition proposed. This message made no mention of the claim of there being no warrant in the Constitution to purchase....