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By Brother Chuck Clampitt
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Š‡ Š‘ƒ• ‡ơ‡”•‘ „‡ ƒ‡ –Š‡ ͛”† ”‡•‹†‡– ‹ Šƒ˜‡ ‹–ǡ ’”‘˜‹†‡ ‡ ‘ ‡† ƒ– ‡ơ‡”•‘̹• †‘‘”Ǥ ”ƒ ‡
1801, the United States consisted of everything east of and England had been engaged in a series of wars going
the Mississippi River, with the exception of Florida. While back to the French and Indian War which began in
most of the area west of the Appalachian Mountains ͙͟͜͝Ǥ › –Š‡ –‹‡ ‡ơ‡”•‘ ™ƒ• ‹ƒ—‰—”ƒ–‡†ǡ ƒ’‘Ž‡‘
was unsettled, two "western" states, Kentucky and Bonaparte controlled France, and it had become obvious
Tennessee, had been admitted into the union. to him that developing the large section of North
America that France owned west of the Mississippi River
‡ơ‡”•‘ǡ ƒ ˆƒ”‡”ǡ ’Žƒ–ƒ–‹‘ ‘™‡”ǡ ƒ† ‹†‡ƒŽ‹•–ǡ ™ƒ• ‹’‘••‹„Ž‡Ǥ Š‡”‡ˆ‘”‡ǡ ‹– ™ƒ• †‡ ‹†‡† –‘ ‘ơ‡” ™Šƒ–
thought as the population of the United States increased, ™‘—Ž† „‡ ‘‡ ‘™ ƒ• –Š‡ ‘—‹•‹ƒƒ —” Šƒ•‡ –‘ –Š‡
the purest form of republicanism occupationally was United States for the sum of 15 million dollars. The area
–Š‡ ˆƒ”‡”Ǥ  ‡ơ‡”•‘̹• ‘’‹‹‘ǡ –Š‡ ˆƒ”‡” ™ƒ• Šƒ”†Ǧ comprised all of the Mississippi watershed west of the
working, independent, loyal to defend his country, and Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and consisted
ƒ „‡Ž‹‡˜‡” ‹ ƒ •ƒŽŽ ‡†‡”ƒŽ ‘˜‡”‡–Ǥ • •— Šǡ Žƒ† ‘ˆ ͚͠͠ǡ͘͘͘ •“—ƒ”‡ ‹Ž‡•ǡ ƒŽŽ ˆ‘” –Š‡ ’”‹ ‡ ‘ˆ –Š”‡‡ ‡–•
and cheap land would be necessary in order for this per acre.
agrarian society to continue and prosper. As luck would

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