Gaihatin. said: " Do not proceed to do a thing on the ground that the people will ratify what you have not a right to do. it will be like them to turn .gainst you." When Jefferson asked. " What can we do0 " Gallatin replied. " Proceed to buy it." Jefferson bought it. and s:id In a letter. "I stretched the Constitution until it almost cracked." But he did it. and the statesmanship of Jefferson is seen in his ability to rise above petty consistency and do the thing that ought to be done. though he said he could not do it under his political theory of expressed vowers. That is his statesmanship. Now. this was done. and Louisiana was ours. We paid but $15.000.000 for it. It was on our hands. It was peopled by Indians ind by emigrants that bad gone from the older States east of the Mississippi. They had to inaugurate ii government. Who was President?
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