1821 Aug. 14

Rid Yourselves

Lett Mode

Analogous case - sale and purchase of good-will of a public house.

As to the purchasers, there is but one nation in the situation /case/

of which I see any prospect of the existence /can descry any the least probability/

of that /an adequate/ union of inclination and power which is necessary to the

production of the effect. This is the Anglo-American United States. In this case the

instance of the purchase they made /of their purchase/ of France /Louisiana/ of that

which was the Louisiana of France when under the dominion of Bonaparte is sufficient

/suffices/ to cover the proposal from the reproach of absurdity and innovation.

Under existing circumstances while it is /if anything/ that that

State would be disposed to purchase of you, is if disposed to purchase what they

would be disposed to give you, it belongs not to me to know.

Supposing on their part the disposition to acquire, and to pay as

before a price for the acquisition thus arises the question, what the services can be

on your part can be, for which it can be worth their while to pay a price.

In a short description all such services may be included: namely such the effect of

which may be to produce on the part of the inhabitants of the territory in question a

disposition to concurr with content and satisfaction in the transaction of which that

territory is the subject.