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Title: A history of the American nation
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: McLaughlin, Andrew Cunningham, 1861- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, Chicago, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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fore, agreed that the UnitedStates as a nation could acquire territory; they differed on thequestion of the nature of the control over it. Thus the territory of the United States was more than doubled. Louisiana contained over 800,000 square miles. It was part of the great Mississippi Valley. The Its meanings. *. . , . heart of the contment, bound together by rivers ^ We took Frances title—Louisiana with the extent that it has in thehands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as itshould be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain andother States. On the basis of these words we laid claim to Florida as fareast as the Perdido, on the ground that Louisiana in the hands of Francehad extended thus far. This, it must be said, was an afterthought on Liv-ingstons part, and in the light of all the evidence must be considered anunjust claim. 2 The right to annex territory was afterward upheld by the SupremeCourt. Am. Ins. Co. v. Canter, i Peters. 511.
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INTERNAL DEVELOPMENT 233 into a single geographic whole, fell to the new republic. Noth-ing else could be done so likely to insure perpetual union.Geography itself taught the lesson of Unity; the great westernvalley with its innumerable water courses, all hurrying to themighty river and on to the Gulf, could not be rent asunder,and when, in later years, there was an attempt to take thesouthern portion out of the Union, the cry was strong and loudthat the father of waters must roll unvexed to the sea.

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