The history of the Louisiana purchase . fluence in the conventionat which New York adopted the FederalConstitution, bringing about the favorable8 113 History of The Louisiana Purchase result by liis influence. As Chancellor ofNew York he had administered the oath toWashington at his inauguration; and first ofmen had hailed him as he stood in the su-preme place, Long live George Washington,President of the United States ! In thefull strength of his powers he was now setto conduct a most arduous and embarrassingnegotiation, which he carried through in amanner to confirm his title to high
The history of the Louisiana purchase . fluence in the conventionat which New York adopted the FederalConstitution, bringing about the favorable8 113 History of The Louisiana Purchase result by liis influence. As Chancellor ofNew York he had administered the oath toWashington at his inauguration; and first ofmen had hailed him as he stood in the su-preme place, Long live George Washington,President of the United States ! In thefull strength of his powers he was now setto conduct a most arduous and embarrassingnegotiation, which he carried through in amanner to confirm his title to high he finally left Eu-rope, in 1805, Napoleonassured him of his re-gard, bestowing ujDonhim one of those taha-tieres (snuff-boxes) whichin that day aj^pearednow and then in con-nection with interestingevents. This snuff-box,too, like the one de-scribed by Lucien, wasset magnificently with diamonds, and had inits lid a miniature by Isabey—this time apicture of Napoleon himself. American dis-tinctions, too, were not wanting, and the114. ^^6///A Livingston at Paris Commonwealtli of New York could not havechosen better then to set a statue of him—as she did at a later time—in the hall atWashington, as one of her two typical greatmen. But when Livingston began, in the fall of1801, his work as envoy in Paris, the pathbefore him was beset indeed by thorns. Ofhis course, his letters to the administration,contained in the Annals of Congress,* givea full account, and are often interestingreadino;. As has been mentioned, an important partof the work expected from Livingston wasto obtain payment of the spoliation claims—the reimbursement of American merchantsfor property taken from them by the Frenchwhen the two nations had .been at had admitted the justice of the claims,but payment was withheld. In addition tothis business, the envoy was charged with thenegotiation for the mouths of the Mississippi,New Orleans, and the Florid as—a matterwhich almost at once, when in
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