Excerpt from Louisiana and the Fair, Vol. 4: An Exposition of the World, Its People and Their Achievements If the Declaration of Independence was the clarion of free dom in America, the Purchase of Louisiana Territory was consummation of the ideal of the founders who builded our Republic for the ages, for that act cemented, against future divorcement, the great domain that divides the na tion's sea-coast between the Atlantic and Pacific and made the United States master alike of the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.