The Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson
By Subject
LAND / SETTLEMENT / PROCESS
I am glad to find we have 4,000,000 acres west of Chafalaya. How much
better to have every i6o acres settled by an able-bodied militia man,
than by purchasers with their hordes of negroes, to add weakness
instead of strength.
to Albert Gallatin, 24 December 1807
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