1821 Aug. 12

Rid Yourselves

Lett. Mode

Such then being for the practice and character of that government,

hear now then for that which for your own benefit or the benefit of your Ultramarian

kinsmen, and in some instances for the benefit of a third party as well as finally

for the benefit of the inhabitants of this globe, I would venture to submitt to you

as a cause the pursuit of which would at once fill your minds /heads/ with the purest

and most delightful self satisfaction, and so spread round your name the most lasting

as well as truest and purest glory. In /To/ that realized Utopia take /seek/ not only

for a general example and guidance /particular instruction/ but from the government

itself from the existing Members of it whoever they are, for actual cooperation and

assistance.

It is for them to say whether it be for the advatage of those

principals whose trustees, representatives and delegates they are to give to your

rulers for your ease any thing for the cession of those rights, those claims, those

services which it is in your power respectively to transfer, yield up and render. If

it be, here then is sale and purchase: and for a contract of this kind, the

Government of the United States for the benefit of the whole Union bring purchase a

precedent already is in existence /has place/ in the case of the purchase made of

territory under the name of Louisiana of the French under the dominion of Bonaparte.

For Some tract or tracts of territory I should not be surprized if that state should

be disposed upon terms of this sort to become purchasers. I am not altogether without

special ground for the hope.