The history of the Louisiana purchase . demanded papers and docu-ments relative to the conditions of the cessionof Louisiana by Spain to France; and whenthe demand was denied by the majority, heforthwith introduced resolutions to the fol-lowing effect: That the United States wereentitled to the free navigation of the Missis-sippi ; that right having been obstructed byMorales, it was the duty of the House toinquire how it might be restored and main-tained. The tone of the resolutions was sozealous and peremptory that the Democratsfeared a stealing of their own thunder. Whatif the West should co
The history of the Louisiana purchase . demanded papers and docu-ments relative to the conditions of the cessionof Louisiana by Spain to France; and whenthe demand was denied by the majority, heforthwith introduced resolutions to the fol-lowing effect: That the United States wereentitled to the free navigation of the Missis-sippi ; that right having been obstructed byMorales, it was the duty of the House toinquire how it might be restored and main-tained. The tone of the resolutions was sozealous and peremptory that the Democratsfeared a stealing of their own thunder. Whatif the West should come to regard the Fed-eralists as the special champions of their in-terests ! It was a poaching on the Demo-cratic preserves that must be at once headedoff. Griswolds resolutions were voted dow^ two parties, indeed, were alike in their149 History of The Louisiana Purchase aim; but tlie Democrats, iufluenced by thespirit of Jefferson, were for mastering tliedifficulty by means of ne-gotiation, wliile the Fed-eralists were ready for. war. Now it was, that while Jefferson appointedMonroe, sending him toFrance and Spain withhis $2,000,000, to getround the trouble by abargain, Ross, of Penn-sylvania, the Federalist,moved, as has been nar-rated, in the Senate the50,000 men and $5,000,000 for the immediateseizure of N^ew Orleans and the dealing with the danger which the ap-proach of France brought to the UnitedStates, Jefferson and his party had shown awiser and humaner spirit than did the oppo-sition. Now in the later stage of the affair,when the transfer of Louisiana by Franceto America had come about, it is the Jeffer-sonian policy which we from this distancemust commend; for the Federalists became150 Party Wrangle Over the Purchase turbulent and factious. To tliis day in oldNew England families tlie tradition iDersistsof the rancor with wliich JefEerson was re-garded. There could be no good, so thoughtthe friends of John Adams, in anything hisgreat rival had don
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