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many, and Russia, in their attempts to exclude the importation of 

 American products. Hear the demand of the United States for the 

 "Open Door," in China, and a share of the trade in the Orient. Yes, 

 look at the vast annual shipment of horses, mules, hogs, wheat, hay and 

 corn, from this very Louisiana Territory to England. She cannot carry 

 on her wars, nor feed her people, without the aid of American com- 

 merce. 



The Fifteen Million Dollars, consideration, for this transfer, was 

 not the primal and moving cause with Napoleon. His i)ublislu'd state- 

 ments show, that he well knew it was a mere pittance, compared witli 

 the value of this vast domain. It is a mistaken belief that Nipoleon 

 did not have a fair conception of the magnitude and resources of the 

 Louisiana Territory. He saw in it, at the time he ceded it to the 

 United States, the resources and possibilities, of a rising commercial 

 empire. 



Napoleon, in the transfer of Louisiana to the L'nited Slates, \)cv- 

 formed the one act of his strenuous life, which has stood the test of 

 tune ; of all of his mighty achievements, this alone has borne fruit. 

 Germany, Austria, Italy, and Spain no longer bend the knee; his mag- 

 nificent military exploits are only remembered in the dimness of fading 

 history. Where are the fruits of his great battles? What glory comes 

 to him from Austerlitz, 'Marengo and Waterloo? Who is made better 

 by the exploits of his wonderful military genius? Over his grave thv 

 poet sang — 



"He sleeps his last sleep; he has fought his last battle. 

 No sound can awake him to glory again." 



If any sound could awaken him it would not be the sound of war 

 trumpets, but the hum of peaceful industry in the Louisiana territory. 

 If any sound could awaken him, it would not be the victorious shouts of 

 a triumphant soldiery, or the flattering speech of subject monarchs it 

 would be the glad shouts of eighty million of free Americans ; it would 

 be the voice of huinanity rejoicing, that by the stroke of his pen, he 

 made possible the development of this great nation, the champion of 

 human rights and human liberty. By his sword, he failed to make the 

 French Empire co-extensive with the bounds of Europe, but by his, pen, 

 he made possible, the great American Republic of today. For his 

 military achievements, he was doomed to perish upon the barren rocks 

 of St. Helena. It has been well said of Napoleon — 



"He perished by his sword, 



By his pen he won immortality," 



