The history of the Louisiana purchase . imehave been setting in order a threatening for-eign host at New Orleans. 58 France Prepares to Take Louisiana By this time there were many signs of aheavy tempest. It had become known thatLe Clerc at once upon arriving in SanDominoo had shown unfriendliness to Ameri-cans, seizing their property and stigmatizingthem as Hhe scum of nations. Pichon, anold Republican, minister at Washington, who,not prepared for the new order, tried to ex-plain and adjust, was re-buked from home and pres-ently dismissed. The lettersof Livingston reported cav-alier treatment
The history of the Louisiana purchase . imehave been setting in order a threatening for-eign host at New Orleans. 58 France Prepares to Take Louisiana By this time there were many signs of aheavy tempest. It had become known thatLe Clerc at once upon arriving in SanDominoo had shown unfriendliness to Ameri-cans, seizing their property and stigmatizingthem as Hhe scum of nations. Pichon, anold Republican, minister at Washington, who,not prepared for the new order, tried to ex-plain and adjust, was re-buked from home and pres-ently dismissed. The lettersof Livingston reported cav-alier treatment. On bothsides temper w^as Talleyrand was su-percilious in Paris, Le Clercwas angry in the West In-dies. On the other hand, ^cLivingstons blood was up,and even the peace-loving Madison was los-ing: his calm. As it became known in thecountry that France was likely to replaceSpain at the mouth of the Mississippi, andthat she was by no means a good friend, awarlike murmur arose, particularly through-out the West and South. 59. ^mc7 MuJu. History of The Louisiana Purchase Amid sucli mutterings Jefferson bore liini-self well. Following liis bent, he still triedto be conciliatory, bnt at tlie same time therewas a show of spirit. If France persisted intaking Louisiana, he wrote Bonaparte, it wouldcost her a war, perhaps soon, which wouldannihilate her on the ocean, and place thatelement under the despotism of two nations— which I am not reconciled to the morebecause my own would be one of them. ToLivingston he wrote: From the moment thatFrance takes New Orleans, we must marryourselves to the British fleet and Adams believes that there was a touchof bluster about this, which Jefferson thoughtin the circumstances might be politic. Hewas too peace-loving to be sincere in it. Butwhen Bonaparte was the one to be frightened,and Talleyrand the one to be hoodwinked, thenaivete of the proceeding becomes ratherludicrous. 60 CHAPTER IV HOW JEFFERSON BUILDED BETTER THAN
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