Extract from Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours to Jacques Necker
| Paris February 28, 1804 |
Mr. Jefferson, who resisted the whole country and risked all his popularity, who ran the risk of not being reelected by refusing to seize Louisiana, an almost limitless country whose land is excellent, will certainly not change his principles after the success of his peaceful negotation.
Published in James F. Marshall, trans. and ed., De Staël–Du Pont Letters: Correspondence of Madame de Staël and Pierre Samuel du Pont
de Nemours and Other Members of the Necker and du Pont Families (1968), 204.
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