Jefferson to Richard Rush

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Jefferson worried that the Missouri crisis might lead to disunion, as this letter shows. He predicted that any break-up of the Union would be short-lived, but he still feared that Europeans would see even a temporary division as proof that free government was ineffective and ultimately unworkable.


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