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In effecting the purchase of Louisiana, Mr. Jefferson has thus been eulogized by James G. Blaine, in his “Twenty Years of Congress:”

“Mr. Jefferson made the largest conquest ever peacefully achieved, at a cost so small that the sum expended for the entire territory does not equal the revenue which has since been collected on its soil in a single month, in time of great public peril.”

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