The history of the Louisiana purchase . andthat, as it will be the right of all, so it willbe the duty of some, to prepare definitely for * Annals of Congress, 1811. 174 The United States in Possession a separation—amicably if they can, violentlyif tliey must. Here Mr. Quincy was called to order, but,being suffered to proceed, went on with astatement of the old Federalist argument of1803—that the Consti-tution did not authorizethe admission of foreignterritory, but only ofStates formed from theterritory possessed bythe Union at the this bill be admit-ted, he exclaimed, thewhole space
The history of the Louisiana purchase . andthat, as it will be the right of all, so it willbe the duty of some, to prepare definitely for * Annals of Congress, 1811. 174 The United States in Possession a separation—amicably if they can, violentlyif tliey must. Here Mr. Quincy was called to order, but,being suffered to proceed, went on with astatement of the old Federalist argument of1803—that the Consti-tution did not authorizethe admission of foreignterritory, but only ofStates formed from theterritory possessed bythe Union at the this bill be admit-ted, he exclaimed, thewhole space of Louisi-ana, greater, it is said,than the entire extentof the United States, will be a mighty thea-ter in which the Government assumes theright of exercising this unparalleled power;nor will it stop until the very name andnature of the old partners be overwhelmedby newcomers into the confederacy. This isnot so much a question concerning the exer-cise of sovereignty as it is who shall besovereign. Whether the proprietors of the175. ^ocJoJc C-Oty^^tAL^ History of The Louisiana Purchase good old United States shall manage theirown affairs in their own way, or whetherthey and their Constitution and their politicalrights shall be trampled under foot by for-eio:ners introduced throuo;h a breach of theConstitution. Suppose the population of thewhole world beyond the Mississippi were tobe brought in to form our laws, control ourrights, and decide our destiny. Can it bepretended that the framers of the Constitu-tion would have listened to it ? They werenot madmen. They had not taken degreesat the hospital of idiocy. Why, sir^ I havealready heard of six States, and some saythere will be, at no great distance of time,more. I have also heard that the mouth ofthe Ohio will be far to the east of the centerof the contemplated empire. You have noauthority to throw the rights and libertiesand property of this people into a hotch-potch of the wild men on the Missouri, norwith the mixed, th
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