Senate Debates on the Louisiana Purchase

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In this 1803 speech, Senator Samuel White of Delaware expressed his strong opposition to the Louisiana Purchase. Although White believed that the United States needed access to the port of New Orleans, he thought that buying so much additional territory in the West was both unnecessary and unconstitutional.


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