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{"value"=>"276285", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 3697", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"July 11, 1803", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1803-07-11"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to Gen. [Horatio] Gates [New York]"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. 2 pp. 4o", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Mutual congratulations on the acquisition of Louisiana; if the legislature is wise they will induce all the Indians on the east side to remove to the west of the Mississippi, and condense instead of scattering the white population; both Monroe and Livingston merit praise; the opposition are uneasy lest the administration should share some credit for the acquisition, the whole of which they ascribe to the fortune of war; the administration always meant to profit by war when it should come; the other party also had a war, but they did not make it a means of gain, they were for plunging into it, and for making this country an appendage to England; he believes that the present administration will not have as much to swallow from France and England as its predecessors had; probable disposition of the new territory."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Washington, D.C.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
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1803
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1803
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1803-07-11
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1803-07-11
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1803-07-11